The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1914-03-13
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL
NEW MEXICO
PEOPLE


postmaster at Causey.
A fire destroyed $4,000 worth of
property at Albuquerque.
Boys of the Pecos valley are to en-
gage in a corn-growing contest.
p. j. Reynolds has been nominated
for postmaster at Fort Bayard.
Martin O. Hardin has been nominal
ed for postmaster OF Lordsburg.
About $25 worth of goods were re-
Gently taken from store in Vaughn.
The hospital at Defiance will be en-
larged. the improvements to cost $1O,-
600.
There are seven prisoners in the
Santa Rosa Jail awaiting the action of
the grand jury.
Work is TO begin at once on remod-
cling and eIlarging the railroad stock
pens at Rock Island.
Plains farmers report wheat doing
well, present indications denoting the
best return in years.
1t is expected that sites for the fed
eral buildings at Las Vegas and Ration
will soon be selected.
Fire, claimed to have been of incen-
diary origin. destroyed $4,000 worth
of property at Pennington.
This state has made a good show
ing in the investigation of the boun'
Diary between Texas and New Mexico.
Governor Mcdonald pardoned Dan
Riley of Quay county, who was sent to
the penitentiary for a term of years
for stealing cattle.
The postmaster general has re-
scinded the order of January 28, 1914,
disseminating the postoffice at Guada-
lupe, Guadalupe county.
Apolinar Gonzales is wanted by the
police of Grant county for the murder
of fellow countryman named Per-
fecto Sanchez at Santa Rita.
Captain Cahdelario Martinez, veter-
an of the Civil War and one of the
old-timers of Santa Fe, died of liver
trouble. He was sixty-nine years of
age.
George Ballastra, a coal miner work
ing at the Coal Basin mine, few
miles out of Gallup, was killed by fall
ing down the shaft at the mine which
is 315 feet deep.
E. F. Walton of Loveland, Colo, was
detained at Roswell on suspicion of be-
ing the party whose auto scared the
team which ran away and killed Miss
Lillian Jacobson.
Lieut. Gov e. G. De Baca was ar.
rested at Las Vegas for beating F, M
Chacon, editorial writer on La Vo2
Del Pueblo, of Las Vegas. The Off
cial pleaded guilty.
Water application No. $50 was re
ceived from John H. Lewis of Nez
PIERCE, Idaho, for los second feet from
Pecos river for pumping purposes tc
Trigate 1915 acres.
The governor has issued a requisi
ton on the governor of Colorado for
the extradition of H. j. Coulter, locked
up at Antonito, and wanted in New
Mexico on the charge of forgery.
The New Mexico exposition manag
ers have received seventy-two stere
opticon slides, which will serve as q
basis for the daily lecture on the at
fractions of Luna county at the Sar
Diego exposition.
The governor of Texas has informed
the governor of New Mexico that Sal
azar, besides other offenses is know
to have invaded Luna county, thii
state, and appropriated horses and cat
tie to his own use.
Two domestic corporations were
chartered by the State Corporation
Commission. The Reserve Mercantile
Company of Reserve was one and thu
Rio Grande Publishing Company o
Las Cruces was the other.
An explosion which occurred at Cn'
of the mine shafts on the G. & o. Com
panys property at Silver City, lief
only the drum of the hoist and large
hole in the ground to show for thu
shaft house and the machinery. NJ
one was injured.
Postmaster A. H. Rockafelluw o
Roswell put up requests for tn
Federal Postoffice Department TO
new bids for the carrying of the mai
on the route from Roswell to CARR
zozo. Two bids will have to be OIL
automobile service.