The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-12-05
NEW MEXICO NEWS
Gathered From
All Parts of the State

BuJted Dy IRE.
New Mexico cattlemen had sue
cessful season.
Albuquerque Y M. G. A. railroaders
are anxious for suitable clubhouse. -
for Dayton is again being discussed
be citizens of the town and commun-
ity.
G. C. Robbins of Dayton sold this
year $40 worth of tomatoes off patch
that measures about one,fifth of an
acre.
After eating the heads off package
of matches, the three-year-old child of
Luz Madrid of Hillsboro died of phos-
phor poisoning.
The school census of Mora county
shows school population of 4,SS3 for
1913, as compared with 4,217 during
1912, gain of ZIG.
At a meeting of the Deming Com
monwealth Club the main subject un-
der discussion was a commission form
of government for that city.
r. P. Donohoo, receiver for the de-
funct First State Bank of Tucumcari,
has brought suit against the Las
Cruces State Bank for $17,949.
James t. Fay of Pennington was
found guilty on the charge of attempt
ing to defraud the government of the
tax on two gallons of fruit brandy.
Notaries have been appointed by
Governor Mcdonald as follows: Ar.
thur Daune Tyler, Deming; Lee o.
Lester Deming; Thomas w. Hanna,
Lamy.
The beet harvest is now in full
swing and four carloads of beets a
day are being sent from Maxwell to
the sugar factory at Garden City,
Kansas.
Anecleto Contreras, an old citizen
of Rio del Media, committed suicide
by blowing off the top of his head
with muzzle loading gun loaded with
buckshot.
Fred Burleson, 2O-year-old son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Burleson, of Lin
coin, was shot in Carrizozo and may
die. AL Highfill, his assailant, is in
the county jail.
Good progress is being made on the
tracklaying on the branch line of rail-
road into the Burro mountains and It
is expected that the track will be into
Tyrone in short time.
Thieves have been at work recently
at Vaughn, among other things carry
ing off about 5000 pounds of beans
that B. F. Little had stored in the
Tharp ranch house.
The Tres Ritos Cattle and Land
Company filed incorporation papers
with the state corporation commits
sion. The headquarters of the com
pany are at Three Rivers.
The convict camp which has been
working on the Santa Fe-Las Vegas
road is now repairing the road about
ten miles beyond Glorieta, according
to State Engineer French.
The following have been commits
stoned notary publics by Governor
Mcdonald Jose M. Garcia, Santa Fe;
George e. French, Roswell Mark T.
Nix, Rosebud, Union county.
Duke Chester, formerly an inmate in
the New Mexico penitentiary, where
he served a term for grand larceny,
committed in Bernalillo county, is
under Arrest in Denver for making
and having in his possession plaster
mold for $1OO coin.
The county superintendent of Rio
Arriba county has filed his report OF
the present term with the state educa-
tional department This shows a
school population of $685., So teachers
employed, an average monthly salary
of $5357, an average school term of
5.4S months, and total monthly pay
roll of $S,375.
For the past month a day has not
passed during which from six to fiji
teen carloads of Colfax county sugar
beets have not passed through Ration
en- route to the refineries in western
Kansas.
Deputy Travelling Auditor e. A.
Mossman has completed his audit OF
the books of Mckinley county and is
now at Los Lunas, where he will re-
port the books of the officials of that
county.
Up to last week twenty-six bodies
remained buried in the Stag coal mine
No. at Dawson. though a month had
passed since the disaster which car
ried death to 26S of the 2S4 men at
work at the time of the explosion. 1t