The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-04-01
ST. LOUIS BANKS LOSE CASE
Federal Court Of Appeals uphoIds Do.
eis'on Regarding the Payment Of
Corporation Tax.

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The decision was rendered in the
case Of the National Bank of Com
merce OF st. Louis VS.. E. B. Allan
former internal revenue collector fol
eastern Missouri, for the recovery Of
about $4,000 paid as federal excise
tax. This was a test case arranged
by the st. Louis Clearing House AS
ISOLATION.
The federal corporation excise Law
creates tax of per cent on all net
income exceeding $4,000 annually.
The National Bank of Commerce
claimed that approximately 100000
which it had paid as state taxes dur
ing 1909, 1910 and 1911. should not
have been assessed under the federal
excise tax law.
The decision declared that this
amount originally represented part OF
the banks net income and therefore
should be taxed.
A case that has been pending in
the circuit court at st. Louis for
twenty-six years was advanced a step
toward settlement the other day when
the report Of a referee, who was TAX
ing testimony was filed. The case Is
suit for $4,000 against the partner
ship firm of Sarpy Berthold and Cur
tbs M. Jennings. and was brought by
the executrix Of the estate of Henry
O'Hara, who was member of the
partnership firm and at its dissolu.
ton brought suit for an accounting.
The referee recommends disallowance
of the claim against the partnership
and recommends also judgment of
$4,000 against the O'Hara estate.
Rock Road in Saline County.
A meeting was held at the Prairie
Lawn school house south of Marshall
to make a definite move concerning
the construction of a rock road from
the Marshall special road district to
the Pettis county line on the Sedalia-
Marshall road, ten miles. A meeting
for the same purpose was held at the
Elgin school house. Everything
points to success in this venture.
This Is the first move made in Sa-
line county to build rock roads,
Names Delegates to Press Congress.
H. S. Sturgis, president of the Mis-.
souri, Press Association. has appoint
ed Fred Naeter, Republican, Cape
Girardeau; H. F. Stapel, Mail, Rock
port; Ovid Bell, Gazette, Fulton: p.
3. Burton, News Herald. Joplin; Omar
D. Gray, Leader, Sturgeon, delegates
to the International Press Congress in
st. Francis county, July 5 to 10.
Held on Killing Charge.
Fred D. Wilkins, charged with the
of Colonel Alien M. Walker,
mayor OF Louisiana, and mem.
Der Of Governor Majors staff, was
bound over to the circuit court for
trial by Justice of the Peace w. J.
Hufty of Bowling Green, before whom
he was given preliminary hearing.
His bond was fixed at $4,000. Z
Arrest Negro As Amman. \
Loving Mitchell, a negro, was arrest
ed at St. Louis on warrant charg-
Ing him with the murder of w. E.
Dawson, sexton, his wife, and their
daughter, Georgia, - years old, at
ILL.,, the night of Septem-
Der 30, 1911
Newspaper Founder Dies.
James Irwin Nichols. 50 years old,
,ne of the founders of the Fulton Ga.
.ette, died suddenly the other night
It the Masonic home In st. Louis. 8.
A. Nichols, a Fulton druggist, is a
brother.
Or. J. q. French Dead.
DR.. John G. French of St. Louis, a
ormer student In the University of |
and many years resident |
Il Columbia, is dead at Parker Me.
norial hospital in Columbia. He went |
o the hospital about two weeks ago.
DOCTOR French was IS years old He
. survived by his wife.
Killed in q Motor Smash.
The first fatal motor accident in
|edalia occurred when John Shafer,
ead Of the Shafer Transfer and Stor-
&c Company, was crushed to death.
|hafer occupied q 7-passenger car with
red Ross. At jog in the street he
Dot control Of his machine, which
rashed into . telegraph pole. Ross
lmped from the machine and ~
eived only slight bruises.
ooniphan Shaft at Richmond.
The recent legislature passed the
[orton bill appropriating- $4,000 for
monument to be erected to the
lemory Of the late General A. w.
oniphan, 1t Richmond. This VIII
lake the third monument erected
leres
W. II. swlst Dies In st. louis.
william 81. Swift, who was socrer /,