The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1914-05-15
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL
NEW MEXICO
PEOPLE
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

wiped out by fire.
A good roads association has been
formed at Tucumcari.
The annual state meeting of the M.
w. A. was held in Roswell.
A large acreage of corn is being
planted in the Pecos valley.
The state land office at Santa Fe
earned $2S,S41.97 during April.
The county road board of Chaves
county has forty steel road-drags.
Ration has approved the plans for
new city hall and fire department
buildings.
Governor Mcdonald has appointed
Henry A. Long of Cutter, Sierra
county, notary public.
At recent fire in Wagon Mound
$4,000 pounds of wool were destroyed,
Of which $4,000 belonged to James
Holbrook.
The little daughter of P. T. Schra-
der broke her arm while roller skat-
ing near the home of A. c. Keinath
at Artesia.
Eastern New Mexico is now car
peted with such a covering of green
vegetation as has never been seen at
this early date.
Sixteen tons of parcels post mat
ter was shipped from Silver City to
the Mogollon mining section during
the first half of April.
Tom Spivey. living three miles
south of Artesia, broke his leg be-
tween the ankle and the knee when
he leaped from his horse.
Over two and half million dollars
by conservative estimate is invested
in automobiles in New Mexico, and
over $4,000 in motorcycles.
Authority has been received at Az.
buquerque to start to work on new
buildings for the Indian school there
that will cost about $4,000.
According to the United States cen
sus Bureau New Mexico has gained
$4,000 population in the four years
since the last census was taken.
The Las Vegas Odd Fellows prop.
erly celebrated the ninety-fifth ami
versary of the founding Of the order
with banquet and entertainment.
Five prisoners received peniten.
tiary sentence for crimes committed
in Quay county and Sheriff Ward and
deputy escorted them to Santa Fe.
The dog poisoner is abroad in Las
Vegas and quite number OF valuable
animals have been lost-the best dogs
as usual falling prey to the brute.
The forest service announces the
completion Of telephone line through
the Manzano national forest to Placi
tas and to Cuba in the Jemez forest.
Travellers from the Pecos praise
most highly the work being done by
the state engineers department on
the road between Santa Fe and
Glorieta.
Two horses belonging to Lucas
brothers of Deming, fell in well. for
ty-seven feet deep, and were dead
within three minutes after reaching
the bottom.
B. f. Brown, a former member of
the Territorial Legislature, has been
arrested charged with embezzling
800 of money order funds from the
Mosquero postoffice.
Felix Salcido of Dona Ana county
and Pedro Perea of Espinosa, Socor-
70 county, have been restored to citi-
zenship by an order of Governor VIII.
liam c. Mcdonald
The department of education at
Santa Fe holds that in case of tie
for school directors. a vacancy occurs
which may be filled by the county
school superintendent
Ben Perry and Johnny Paine have
sold their cattle and ranches In west
ern socorro county for $4,000.
There is considerable mining ac-
tivity over in the vicinity OF White
Oaks, Lincoln county, according to
Judge John Y. Hewitt, a well known
old-timer ofDthat camp.
Township rs south, range s west,
will be thrown open to settlement on
May 20, but most of the land has al
ready been taken by squatters, who
have the first claims.
B. j. Viljjoen of Boer war fame. now
a resident of Chamberino, Dona Ana
county, has been commissioned a cap
tain by Governor w. G. Mcdonald.
placing him on the unassigned list.