Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-14
ALLISON ESTATE
WILL PAY BIG Tx
State Will Get About $1,000
Collateral Inheritance
Tax
OK TEAMS ARE SCARCE IN IOWA
Secretary Of the State Board Of Asri-
culture Has Been Trying to Get One
as a Feature for the Fair = Wallace
Says Teach in Agricultural Schools
to Increase Interest in Farms.
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Des Moines, Aug. 14.-Senator Alli-
sons estate will pay collateral inner
itance tax on all but $4,000 Of it, The
tax is per cent and the entire estate
according to some of the estimates
amounts to about 100000 or probably
more and the tax will therefore be
about $4,000. The will gives $1,000 each
to the Carnegie Stout library of Du-
buque, the Y. M. c. A. Of Dubuque.
the Finley hospital of Dubuque and the
same amount to the Linwood Gene
terry association the income from
which is to be used in caring for his
grave The state law exempts such be-
quests from the payment of the col
lateral inheritance tax.
All the rest Of the estate is liable to
the tax and will pay the same The will
specially provides that the collateral
Inheritance tax and all other taxes
shall be paid from the residue of the
estate SO that the bequests shall be in
the full amount named His real estate
according to the will is to be turned
into cash and it thereupon becomes
personal property and is subject to the
tax. The residence in Dubuque is be-
queathed to his housekeeper, Mrs.
Brayton, and is subject to the tax in
side of fifteen months. Had it been
given to her only thru life the tax
would not have been paid till her
death.
| 1t is possible in drawing up wills to
defer the time when the tax becomes
due for many years, the nature of the
isbequest governing the matter. In the
case of Senator Allison"s will the be-
quests are such that the tax is due on
all within a year or so.
John c. Simpson, secretary of the
state board of agriculture, has dis
covered that OK teams are indeed
scarce He hunted all over the state of
Iowa to find such teams to pull the old
prairie schooner in the historical build
ing at the night show at the state fair.
He finally found eight in a travelling
show but the show disbanded and the
OK teams disappeared There are no
OK teams in Iowa broken to drive. Mr..
Simpson has now discovered in the
| backwoods of Minnesota a man who
has one team which he is working reg
alarly. He will come to the state fair
with the team and will drive it about
| the streets of Des Moines for a few
days in advance with the old prairie
schooner.
Custodian McCurdy Of the state
house has erected a '56-foot scaffolding
in the rotunda of the state house.
However, no one is to be hung. The
ladder is a step-ladder and is being
used in the fall house-cleaning that
starts early at the state house be-
cause the building is large and it
takes long time to get over it. The
step-ladder is on rollers so that it can
be pulled about from place to place
in the rotunda on the second floor.
Things are being put in spick and
span shape because a legislature will
be meeting here in four months and
! it will take that length Of time to get
the fall house-cleaning done.
| Judge O'Donnell, of Dubuque, has
been invited to be one of the speak
ers at the "old soldiers day" program
on the state fair grounds Tuesday,
August %.
"a genuine wild west show is to be
one of the features of the state fair
this year. Its tent will be pitched some
place in the open on the fair grounds.
1t will be w. A. Dickey's Circle D Wild
West Show. There is cowboy band,
a drove of long horned Texas steers, q
band Of full-blood Sioux Indians with
Chief Bullman, a nephew of Old Sit
ting Bull, at the head. There are six
| ty-three people and fifty horses in the
whole contriyance and one of the big
acts is the roping of one of the long
horn steers and then throwing it by
the horns.
'aTeach agriculture" says Henry
Wallace, as the means of keeping the
boys and girls on the farm. Mr.. WAL
lace has been appointed by President
Roosevelt as one Of a commission to
| investigate and report on means OF
encouraging farm life. Mr.. Wallace
has written an article for Campbell's
Scientific Farmer, in which he says
that the proper means for encourag-
| ing rural life is to teach agriculture in
| the schools. He takes the position
that the farm boy is taught everything
but farming. If taught farming he
would be more likely to be interested
| in it, Furthermore by teaching agricul-
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