The Colorado statesman., 1921-01-22
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

tatlon that such profits are "lncome.'
This warning followed the publlca-
ton of statement calling attention to
n recent decision by the United States
District Court of Connecticut. This de-
clsion held that income from the sale
of stocks and bonds is capital in
crease" and therefore not taxable by
the government by virtue of consti-
tutional provision. "rhe decision af-
fects the state of Connecticut only
says Collector McCauly of Colorado.
Until the case is carried to the SUI
preme Court of the United States, IL
It is, and unless that court sustains
the lower court no other district In the
United States is affected"
The Senate received measure from
Senator Wilson. which is said to have
been introduced mt the request of Dis
trict Attorney Van else of Denver and
designed to attack gambling from n
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 particeps criminis and shall
be punished in like manner as the
principal in the keeping of the gam
bling house itself.
The day of the little red schoolhouse
is passing in FL 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 To-
Gated and accessible to all children by
means of well-directed motor bus
routes.
Plans to inaugurate campaign TO
increase their present membership, to
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.
Jamison of La Veta 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. IL, was made for the pur-
pose of changing the bank from
state bank to national bank, accord
ing to annonn cements made yesterday
by Paul Hardy, vice president of the
bank, who declared that the institu-
ton was not defunct.
r. 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 organiza-
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 Gre
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 a 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 for
protection and increase of wild life in
Colorado, will be presented to the
State Legislature, according to Secre-
tary-Treasurer John III. 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 Il
statement made in Washington by Con-
Colorado.
A lone bandit invaded the Littleton
State bank, and at the point of an au-
tomato pistol forced Cashier Willard