The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1914-03-27
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL
NEW MEXICO
PEOPLE


plated.
The Las Vegas Elks lodge is flour
ishing.
The Gallup brass band has been re-
organized.
The survey of the Rio Pecos water
shed will begin early in April.
President Wilson has appointed J.
1. Lovelace postmaster at Fort Sum
ner.
The handsome home of DR.. P. M.
Baker OF Artesia was destroyed by
fire.
J. d. Mcbride has received notice
of his appointment as postmaster at
Dayton.
An automobile mail route has been
established between Grady and Tu-
cumcari.
The building and stock of the Stems
Store Company at Stems was badly
damaged by fire.
The foundation for the New Next
co building at the San Diego exposi-
ton is completed.
The spring term of the District
Court of Quay county will convene at
Tucumcari April 6.
Senator Catron is expected to arrive
home from Washington in time to vote
at the spring election.
Ed Lamb has let the contract for
the drilling of an artesian we'll on the
ranch on the Penasco.
Daniel F. Hudson of Lander has
been appointed United States marshal
for the district of Wyoming.
Governor w. C. Mcdonald has ap-
pointed Frank A. Coon of Lordsburg,
Grant county, a notary public.
Governor William c. Mcdonald has
appointed T. w. Watson of Carrizozo
Lincoln county, notary public.
Efforts are making toward placing
300 acres in cantaloupes in the neigh
borhood of FortbSumner, this season.
The Crescent Creamery Company OF
Tucumcari has voted to enlarge its
plant and incorporate with capital of
$4,000.
The new bank to be started at Tu-
cumcari by w. A. Foyil will be known
as the American National. and be cap
italized at 100000.
The big million dollar hotel at Las
Vegas, Hot Springs, has been turned
over to the Y. M. c. A., of Las Vegas
by the Santa Fe railroad.
There is a movement on foot to con-
vert the abandoned forts in New Mex
leo, of which there are several, into
sanitariums Tor tuberculosis patients.
Parties unearthed an idol on the
ranch of Owen Randall near Aztec. 1t
is made of clay, baked and shaped to
represent a crouching human figure.
Entries of land in the Tucumcari
district for the year 1918, amounted
to 2,738; number of acres, 176,770;
final, 322,146 acres; patented, 1874
acres.
general election will be held in
the state November 6, at which time
a congressman will be chosen, a cor
poration commission and members OF
the Legislature.
Hon. A. A. Jones, assistant secre-
tary of the interior, has worked out a
new bill as a substitute for several
now before Congress, relating to the
640-acre homestead law.
While Deming is expected to be the
scene of a battle Of ballots over
booze before many months, the ques.
ton of wet or dry will not enter into
the city election on April T.
The fifth suicide so far this month
in the state was reported from Santa
Fe. Claro Garcia accidentally killed
Alijandro Galligas at a wedding and
then MORALLY wounded himself.
Soap weed is coming into demand
through it's use as hair wash.
Excavatlng work for the new Santa
Fe storehouse in the roundhouse
yards at Ration has been completed
and construction work on the build
ings and platforms will begin at once
AS a result OF the conference be
tween the State Board of PenitentiarJ
Commissioners and State Engineer
French 1t has been decided to more
than double the force of convicts a
work on the roads of the state.
There will be a public land sale by
the State Commissioner of Public