The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1914-04-03
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL
NEW MEXICO
PEOPLE

W
Moines.
Roswell will spend $4,000 in paving
its streets.
At Maxwell many contracts to raise
beets are being signed.
Logan farmers have signed up to
plant 100 acres in cotton.
Artesia has copper mine from
which valuable ore has been shipped.
The sportsmen of Carlsbad have or
ganized the Carlsbad Rod and Gun
club.
Julia Walther has been commits
stoned a fourth-class- postmaster at
Puerto.
Three hundred acres will be planted
to cantaloupes this season around Las
Cruces.
The county fair at Roswell this yeapr.
will be devoid of horse racing andSs
gambling.
After an eleven-day session, the
grand jury at Carrizozo returned for
ty-six indictments.
There will be more corn planted
this year than in the history of the
valley of the Pecos.
The Orc Grande mining district Is
shipping one hundred tons of iron ore
daily to Pueblo, Colo.
Pumping on the Brown well at Ar
tesla was begun and an increased out
put of oil is expected.
A new town is to be Incorporated
and started on the Berrendo irrigated
farms tract near Roswell.
Tularosa, Otero county, will vote on
the issue of $4,000 in bonds for the
erection of school house.
Alamogordo has twenty-five pump
ing plants in operation with fifty to-
be in working order by June
The adjutant general has received
official notice that Company at Dem
ing now has 81 enlisted men.
Convicts will aid in the construction
of road across Johnson mesa, run
ming from Ration to Folsom.
Parties from Kentucky have taken
up land on the Wiley Mesa around
Liberty, i9Tsan Juan county.
A head1pn collision at Ration re-,
suited the serious injury of Fireman
Rino ana a slight INJURY to Engineer
Ben Horn!sh.
Quay county, with its 1888 school
children, has received $7S9.36 as it's
share of the apportionment of the
school fund for February.
State Secretary Antonio Lucero has
accepted the invitation to deliver the
commencement address at the State
college ON May 2S.
John Waldrip, who was injured sew
eral days ago by stump-puller, is in
a serious condition at Cloudcroft as
result of the injury.
Deputy County Clerk Eugene Twltty
of Colfax county was injured when his
horse backed over cliff on the scenic
highway near Ration.
The Ramon Vigil grant, purchased
by Roy ID. Chaplin Of Detroit, will be
converted into summer resort and a
part of it stocked with cattle.
As result of the cleanup crusade
started by the Silver City Woman's
Club, that town is now one of the most
spotless on the map of New Mexico.
The best and most widely diversified
exhibit that Otero county has ever
sent out will go to the New Mexico
state fair at Albuquerque next Octo-
Der.
Favorable weather and plenty of la
Dor has enabled the work to continue
steadily on the Elephant Butte dam
There are now LOO men on the pay
roll.
More cows for the Maxwell district
is the slogan. Since the first of the
year 100 blooded dairy animals have
been brought in and sold and many
more are desired.
Jesse Nusbaum of Santa Fe has
been chosen superintendent of con-
struction of the Santa Fe pueblo vii
lagos and Painted Desert exhibit at
the San Diego Exposition.
Word was received at Santa Re by
Agent d. A.. Bachelor to the effect
that the Santa Fe railroad has named
Las Vegas as a resort to which excur-
sion rates can be sold in summer
months.
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