The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-08-22
NEW MEXICO
IN BRIEF
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

sept zO-Pumpkin Pie Day at Maxwell
sep. zs-Vc5. 4-Northern New Mexico
October 1-4z-Fifth annual Navajo
tair at Shiprock.
Quail are reported showing plentis
fully around Sumner.
The central telephone office at VIII
lard has been closed.
The Roswell council has fixed the,
city tax levy at 81 mills.
The residence of L. j. Edmunds at
Ration, was destroyed by fire.
]. c. Blickenstaff and his son were
severely injured in runaway at Las
Cruces.
Recent showers have materially
bettered conditions as to temperature
and crop prospects.
The home of Martin Buckovc In the
Moreno valley, near Ration, was struck
by lightning and damaged.
Marion Portwood had his arm cut
off by. the cog-wheels of steam
shovel he was manning at Santa Rita.
The cantaloupe and apple crop Of
lower Pecos valley is reported unprec-
edented for that section of New Mex
leo.
Lloyd Virgins, ten-year-old son of
Mrs. F. H. Virgins of Silver City, met
with an accident which cost him por-
tions of three fingers.
During his temporary absence from
the camp the home of George H. Law
son, justice of the peace at Leopold.
was burned to the ground.
The celebration which was planned
for the opening of the big Red River
ditch at Maxwell has been called off
on account of the uncertainty of the
date.
A large lot of lumber was recently
shipped from Albuquerque to Keams'
Canon, to be used in the construc-
ton of hospital for Moqui and Nav
ajo Indians.
Immediate steps are to be taken
with view of securing In the near
future the paving Of the principal
streets of Silver City In the down
town section.
The Bush Clay Products Company,
filed Incorporation papers with the
corporation commission. The con
Germ has capital stock of 100000,
divided into 100 shares.
A prisoner named Macario Carras-
co, who was awaiting the action of the
grand jury on a charge Of carrying
concealed weapons, escaped from the
county Jail at Santa Rosa.
The thirty-third annual New Mex
leo fair is advertised for October 6,
z, 8, 8, 10, IL, at Albuquerque. Twen-
ty thousand dollars in purses. prizes
and premiums is offered.
Celso Giron and Rebecca Gonzales,
both OF them former students of tho
Santa Fe Indian school, were mar
ried by Rev. Father Bassett of tho
Guadalupe church, Santa Fe.
The Stems Cooperative Store
Company has filed incorporation pa
pers with the corporation commits
sion. : The company will operate a
store at Stems, Grant county.
Trinidad G. de Baca returned to
Santa Fe from Mosquero, Union coun-
ty, where he prosecuted William Rae
for killing an antelope. He secured
a conviction and Rae was fined to-
tai of 5000.
To plunge over the low wall of the
Don Gaspar avenue bridge, striking
on the stones fifteen feet below,
breaking his neck, was the fate Of
Felipe Archuleta, who met tragic
death at Santa Fe.
The Roswell City Council has grant
ed two wholesale and two retail H.
censes to sell liquor.
City Solicitor ]. M. Dye Of Roswell
has a suit filed in the District Court
for the city of Roswell VS.. Peter H.
Cannon for the purpose of condemning
on the east side for sewer
line and septic tank.
E. Romero, Jr., left Albuquerque on
enc of the most unique trips ever tax
en- in the Southwest 1,500-niile mo.
journey to advertise the New
Mexico State fair and the automobile
and motorcycle race events for Labor
Day.
Another big batch of teachers GER
tificates have been issued by the state
department of education to teachers
in various counties. and still others +,
will be sent out as soon as the pa.
pers can be read and the grades de.