The Raymer enterprise., 1921-01-27
Rthy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
Western Ssvp.pa uniss Sevs s-ries. /,

Western SSsspsp0 unisn Sevs s-riesD
Senator Robert +. Rockwell Of Pa
onia introduced In the Senate one Of
the several Republican platform pro-
posals received by that body, provid.
ing that common carriers must trans.
port livestock and perishable products
from the initial shipping point to des.
tination ut an average speed of not
less than ten miles an hour.
Mistaking strychnine for a headache
medicine, which she had occasion to
take from shelf In the darkness, Mrs
Ernest Amiek, wife of a rancher few
miles from Meeker, swallowed the mol.
son and died almost instantly. The
Amicks are among the wealthlest
ranchers In that section. Her husband
and infant daughter survive.
Miss Elm Sabestrom Of Olathe,
county school nurse, reports that one
Of the youngsters In school tried to lick
a frosted pipe and left part OF his
tongue on the zero cold pipe. He had
TO get two small boys to help him get
loose from the pipe. lie suffered con-
siderably from loss Of blood and Il
good coating OF skin from his tongue.
A large newfoundland dog ut Love.
land saved the Vic Davis Sporting
Goods store in that town from being
ransacked by robbers. The robbers
battered In the back door, but when
entering the store they were attacked
by the doc. Such a disturbance was
raised that the robbers were frightened
AWAY. after fighting the dog short
| time.
Richard 4. Parker has been elected
chairman for the ensuing year of the
! Colorado section Of the American In.
sttute of Mining and Metallurgical
Engineers. At the recent annual meet.
ing at which he was chosen, +. c. Gil.
bert was elected vice chairman, II. +.
| I.unt, secretary.treasurer: Il. w. Cor.
don and K. NJ. Henderson. members of
| the executive committee.
The drive to help the starving mil.
lions Of China was started In Denver
| with Il sermon on the situation In that
country by the Rev. 4. X. Dickerson
OF Colorado Springs. The Rev. Mr..
| Dlckerson has just returned from the
stricken portion Of China. where he
was sent by his church to make n re.
port on conditions. "Over 45,00O,0U
people are suffering at the present
time, said Mr. Dckerson.
The Rev. J. H. Skeen, pastor Of the
Baptist church, In an address to young
people at Boulder, advocated the con.
| structlon of churches with gymna-
Sums, swimming pools and billiard
rooms. He declared that too many
! churches were built only to the splr.
| itual side of young people, and that II
was time for religious workers to take
into consideration the physical, intel
lectual and social requirements of
young people. So
Drives" for outside funds among
! the students Of Colorado College are to
| he curbed in the future. following ac-
! tiOn by tie student commission, which
reported that there had been too many
and some of those had been neglected
| by students who failed to make the
payments pledged Hereafter all ap.
| peals will first 90 to the president OF
the college and then to referendum
Of students. Pledge cards are to be
! discouraged.
A hearing relative to the Mountain
States Life Insurance Company, Of
which Claude W. FairchiId. former
state insurance commissioner, is pres.
ident: former State Treasurer Robert
II. Higgins, treasurer. and Governor
Shoup stOckholder, has been ordered
by State Insurance Commissioner Earl
Wilson as result Of allegations filed
In the commissioners office by NJ. g.
HOdnette. a prominent Denver insur.
ance man,
Routt county has just completed two
substantial steel bridges One spans
the Elk river at Glen Eden, and the
other Is across the same stream at
Cochran ford The former Is seventy
six feet span and the latter ninety
feet. Each bridge Is sixteen feet wide
! In the clear. with cement ahutments,
and the cost was S11,5OO. They serve
, a large territory.
| All Colorado taxpayers must pay in
/ come tax on profits made from the
sale Of stocks, bonds and other secu.
rites, under the government interpre.
tatiOn that such profits are Income"
This warning followed the publlca.
ton Of statement calling attention to
a 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 a 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.
preme Court Of the United States, II
II Is, and unless that court sustains
the lower court, no other district In the
United States is affected"
A boxing bill will undoubtedly be in.