Inheritance tax bill advances in Montana House
Montana House passed the administration inheritance tax bill with amendments and quick action. The measure sets a graduated rate by relationship and scales exemptions, aiming to fund state revenue while exempting state and charitable transfers. Senate consideration and March 16 transmission deadline loom amid fiscal and judiciary debates.
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Special session drags on amid oil tax stalemate
The Seventeenth legislature faces a long extra session now in progress with about thirty days remaining. An inquiry into alleged vote trading slows both chambers, oil tax opposition grows, and the tax commission bill is expected to trigger further resistance in the senate. The deadlock from the regular session persists.
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Blue Sky Law Vetoed by Governor Dixon
Governor Dixon vetoes the blue sky law passed in the regular session. The action accompanies a list of bills signed, including physician liquor prescription authority, saccharin prohibition in food, mothers pension amendments, corporation license fees, and railway passenger fare three cents. The veto also covers related senate and carrier provisions.
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Federal survey planned for Montana lands in 1921
Federal officials announce a major survey push for Montana in 1921. A triple crew will start on the Crow reservation in April to open lands for allotment, with additional parties to map Crow Agency townsite and Pryor sub agency areas.
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Sapphire mine yields over three million in sapphires at Utica
Yoro mine in Utica Montana produced more than $3,000,000 in sapphires under Kimberly Interests of Great Britain. Superintendent C. Bielenberg notes one sapphire weighed over three carats and sold for $2,800. He says Montana may yet yield gems of rare kinds in large quantities.
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Three Times a Wife Marie Garland Marries in Paris
Mrs. Marie Tudor Garland mother of Charles V L Garland refused a 4,000,000 inheritance and married J A Green in a prior divorce. She now wed Swinburne Hale of New York, a sailor, in Paris. She forfeited 883,000 in Garland estate income by the marriage and divorce.
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Charles VL Garland
Paris
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New York
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Montana Stockmen Seek South American Ranches
Hardin resident Amos Tafon heads for Oinatat then Chicago and New York while Gus Mersmain plans to join him from Bir Efetn. Five Bir Efetn residents will travel to Latin America to scout ranching opportunities from Sao Paulo to Brazil as a potential base for future settlement.
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New Home of Hughes in Washington
The residence at Wa28 Eighteenth Street Northwest Washington where Charles N. Hughes, secretary of state, has touted. It features thirty rooms and two libraries.
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Homesteader Wins $10,000 Damages Over False Arrest
A Montana jury in Billings awarded Wood McGregor $10,000 damages after ruling N J Phillips false arrested him on a case tied to a grain barn fire. McGregor, jailed 6 days before acquittal, sought exemplary and real damages for imprisonment and reputational harm.
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State's First Attorney General Dies in Montana
Henry J. Haskell, Montana's first attorney general and a member of the constitutional convention, died in Glendive from bronchial trouble. He came to Glendive in 1882 and was later elected to the first territorial legislature, the constitutional convention, and served seven years as attorney general.
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Ancient Indian Pottery Found by Smithsonian Team
Smithsonian researchers led by Prof J A Jeaneon unearthed ancient water jars and pottery in Taos New Mexico. Jars reportedly exceed five centuries in age reflecting prehistoric inhabitants of the American Southwest including cliff dwellings pueblos and irrigation works. De Walker Fewkes continues excavations at Mesa Verde Colorado drawing global archaeologist interest as plans consider a National Park near Clift cities in New Mexico.
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