Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-01-21
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

sale of stocks. bonds and other secu
rifles, under the government interpre
tation that such profits are Income
This warning followed the publica
tion of statement calling attention tt
recent decision by the United State,
District Court of Connecticut. This de
cision held that income from the salt
of stocks and bonds is capital in
crease" and therefore not taxable by
the government by virtue of consti
tutional provision. THE decision af
fects the state of Connecticut only
says Collector McCauly of Colorado
Until the case is carried to the Su
prcme Court of the United States, II
II is, and unless that court sustains
the lower court, no other district in tbs
United States is affected"
The Senate received measure from
Sepator Wilson, which is said to have
been introduced at the request of Dis
trict Attorney Van Cise of Denver and
designed to attack gambling from q
new angle and to aid the district at
torney in enforcing the laws against
this form of vice. 1t provides that the
owner of any premises where gambling
is permitted to be carried on shall be
deemed partlceps criminis and shall
be punished in like manner as the
principal i'm the keeping of the gam
bling house itself.
The day of the little red schoolhouse
is passing in El Paso county. In the
last year the direction of rural school
affairs under Mrs Inez Johnson Lewis
county superintendent of schools, has
resulted in school consultations
eliminating fifteen small and one
room schools. They have been re
placed by three modern brick build
ings costing $4,000, centrally 10
Gated and accessible to all children by
means of well-d!rected motor bus
routes.
Plans to inaugurate n campaign tc
increase their present membership, tc
obtain greater publicity, favorable leg
islation, better marketing conditions
and better development of roads were
arranged by members of the State
Farm Bureau at Fort Collins. W. G
Jamlson of La Yeta was elected presi
dent of the bureau for the coming
year.
Notice of dissolution for the Pa
gosa Springs Stockmen's and Mer
chants bank, filed with the secretary
of state Jan. II, was made for the pur
pose of changing the bank from a
state bank to a national bank, accord
in, III. re- unCtnrf1o u
by Paul Hardy, vice president of the
bank, who declared that the institu-
tion was not defunct.
II. V. Ellington of Denver has re-
Gently been appointed as state super
visor of trade and industrial educa-
ton. This work is carried on under
the direction of the State Board of
Vocational Education, cooperating
with the national board.
Sportsmen are forming an orgahiza-
ton which will make accessible to the
public the famous Conejos Lakes re-
gion of the Rio Grande National For
est, Colorado, according to information
received by the United States Depart
ment Of Agriculture.
Orders have been received by Lieut.
Commander p. S. Thesis in charge of
the Denver navy recruiting station to
close the substations at Colorado
Springs, Pueblo and Casper, Wyo. The
Denver station is the only one to re-
main open in Colorado and Wyoming.
A high grade of potash has been dis
covered in Stone canon, eight miles
west of Larkspur. The find has ere
ated much excitement in the vicinity
of Perry Park and several farmers
have deserted their ranch work to en-.
ter the prospecting game.
According to the verdict of the cor
oner's jury in Pueblo, Antonio Rom
ero committed justifiable homicide
when he inflicted beating and gun
shot wounds upon Aululio Augon, after
having found his wife in the latter's
arms.
recommendations recently drawn up
by the legislative committee of the
Colorado Game and Fish Protective
Association in cooperation with the
state game department and the United
States forest service here, calling foI
protection and increase of wild life in
Colorado, will be presented to the
State Legislature, according to Secre
tary-Treasurer John ii. Hatton, chief
of the grazing department of the forest
service.
Another government tuberculosis
hospital to supplement the work being
done by Fitzsimons General Hospital
at Aurora probably will be established
at Colorado Springs, according to .
statement made in Washington by Con
gressman Charles B. Timberlake OF
Colorado.
A lone bandit invaded the Littletor
Gtota honl- ond or thn nnint Of mn ~,