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Show BRITISH DUKE PAYS TAX TO STATE OF UTAH SALT LAKE, uct. IS. Mis Royal! ( Highness Arthur wilham Patrick Al-I Al-I bert, Duk of Connaught and Sirath-I Sirath-I earn, brother of the late King Edward, I became a taxpayer In the state of Utah yesterday. He paid taxes I amounting to ,J3S.10 as sole executor' I of the estate of his iatc wife. Princess I Louise Bfargarei Alexandria Victoria i Agnes.-. Duchess of Connaught and Straehearn. The duchess died March 1 1, 1917. It was nol until last July, however, that proceedings were instituted which led to the payment of the inher-Itance inher-Itance tax yestefy, and then the' matter was calle to the attention of I the statt officials voluntarily by the : attorneys for the ceiale. L'an B. j shir Ids attorney general, received a' letter from a London firm to the ct-fcet ct-fcet that at the time of hci death the duchess was registered holder of 130 shares of Union Pacific common I slock This, however, had been endorsed en-dorsed by her dunng her lifetime, and the shares had long since been transferred trans-ferred and disposed of. No application for the issue of the, j stock was necessary. It was pointed out, for suclj" a transfer, and the I Union Pacific compauV had no notice I whatever, either express or Implied, of the death of Her Royal Highness, or j I of her having died possessed of the! shares of stock." Since th office of the attorney gen-1 i erul of Utah gains Its information with' regard to stock holdings from the 1 transfer office of the company, which Is incorporated here. Mr. Shields had j not been notified of the fact that Brit- , Ish royally was owing an inheritance i tax to the state, j How ever, as the attorney's letter ' I went on to say. as noon as the duke I 'was informed by his lawyers that le-l gaily the stock was probablv Utah gW" MJ't property, though the certlilcates were JrllOTry In London, and were, undpr the rule? XkWjj ' of the London stock exchang.-, "bear- bMkil er" sccurltlet:. he ordered t1at the tax be paid, and the negotiations ivere fLorrV opened. The shares of Union Paplflo stock BK ",v In question uer.- valued at ?18 1"0 A |