The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-01-03
NEW MEXICO
IN BRIEF
per Union News Service.

convene III annual SeSSlOu Ill January
There is talk of a creamery agency
being started at Grady in the near
future.
Work will be commenced on new
church home for the Episcopalians In
Artesia in a short time.
One of the important bills which
will come b, fore the Legislature is
the salary bill for county officials.
Governor Mcdonald has sent an Of
fetal announcement to Secretary OF
State Philander Knox of the results of
the election held November 5.
News from the Red River mining
district of Taos county, just over the
Colfax county line, is to the effect
that everything is on the boom there.
The first automobile mail line es-
tablished in the United States-the
line between Roswell and Vaughn-is
to be discontinued about the first OF
the year.
His jugular vein and other important
arteries severed by one clean stroke
of a stilletto, an Old Mexico Mexican
whose identity is unknown, was found
dead in the Alamo saloon at Albuquer-
que.
The state game department calls at
tention to the law requiring all sports
men to take out licenses for the new
year of 1913 if they wish to go hunting
or shooting. The old licenses expire
December 81, as the old year passes
| out.
"Not guilty" was the verdict re-
turned by the jury in the case of
Philip Ladley, charged with the muir
der of his actress wife, Jennie Brice,
which was tried in the District Court
of Wyemseeay county, Sunshine dis
trict.
During a fight at Pojoaque, Juan
Jose Lujan of Santa Fe, it is charged,
shot and probably fatally injured
Manuel Garcia of Pojoaque. Three
other bullets found resting places in
a team of horses owned by a spectator
named Gales
The Mount Franklin Rancho Club
filed articles of incorporation for the
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from Lanark postoffice in Dona Ana
county. The club is capitalized at
S150,O00 divided into 1900 shares at
500.
On January 8, the United States
civil service will hold an examination
for railway mail clerks for men only
at all places at which city delivery
service has been established in the
states of Arizona, Nevada, New Mex
leo and Wyoming.
Cattle losses throughout the state
are unusually small this year in all
parts of New Mexico according to w.
j. Linwood, secretary of the state cat
tie sanitary board, who left for Ration,
after spending several days at the
board headquarters in Albuquerque.
Guy Carleton, So years old, a for.
mer engineer of the Santa Fe rail.
and to RAILROAD men as "Old Uncle
Guy" was committed to the New
Mexico insane hospital. Uncle Guy
} who for the past five years has been a
patient at the Las Vegas hospital, has
long record as a railroad man, hav
ing been in the employ of the Santa
Fe for % years and previous to that
} worked on several railroads in the
= east. Forty years ago, while an en-
. gineer on an/eastern railroad, Uncle
Guy was in a wreck at Niagara Falls
Many people were killed in this wreck
among whom was Uncle Guys wife
and daughter, and it 10 thought by the
/, hospital authorities that the meditat
I ing on the tragic death of his wife an(
j. daughter finally weakened Uncle Guyi
4 mind, necessitating his being removed
to the insane hospital.
Hilario Ruiz, captured a few day
|. ago on the ella river by two cowboys
had a preliminary hearing at La
> Lunas and was bound over to tn
y grand jury on charge of murder
e Ruiz pleaded guilty, admitting that h
t. had shot and killed Transito Gabaldor
r a brother of Frank Gabaldon, of A
n buquerque, in San Rafael, severa
q weeks ago. Bail was denied Ruiz.
e Roosevelt county this year raise
& the largest crops of maize and Kaffi
D. corn that has ever been taken off tn
7. same amount of land. For the pas
d few weeks there has been constan
D. stream of wagons on the way to POI
r. tales, and all these wagons have bee
n heavily loaded with grain. While
probably, it would not be exactly tru
IS to say that the farmers were con