The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-18
HI FIGHT Is OVER.
HigglnsvIlle Gives up the Court
House Fight.

The following is an address which
Higginsville issues to the public. 1t
speaks for itself:
Many citizens of our county have no
doubt been surprised, that during the
last few months so little has been said
regarding the court house question.
Many have alreauy intimated that we
would not keep our promise, and that
the whole matter would now be dropped.
In Justice to ourselves and to our friends
we feel 1t u duty to make a statement
OF the matter as it stands. AS previous
ly announced, we had raised the prom
ised $50, 900 by subscription. Grove
Young had subscribed SIC, 900 to this
fund. The necessary petition asking
h county court to order an election is
complete and we had no other thought
but that the proposition would be sub
mitted to the people this fall. Through
a promise of Mr.. Young we were induced
to remain quiet and. for a time, let the
matter rest. Mr.. Young, for several
months past, was opposed to submitting
the question for reasons unknown to us
at that time. About two months ago he
informed us that he intended to deed us
enough property, out of the proceeds
of which we could build a good substan-
tial court house, provided that within
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to H~igginsville, OF a division of the
courts could be secured.
With this prospect in view, we were
quite naturally willing to wait and
remain quiet. After long waiting, Mr..
Young drew up the necessary deed and
wrotetou us, (Asbury, Seeber and Hoefer,l
to come to Excelsior Springs to receive
the papers. We went, and Mr.. Young
delivered to us a deed, in which he
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tees, his three hotels, also Harrison's
store and other property in Hig-
ginsville upon condition that we, as
stated above, succeeded in securing
within the next 25 years the county seat
for Higginsville, or at least a division of
all the courts. He requested that the
deed should not yet be recorded and
that we should say nothing about it.
With the delivery of this deed he request
ed that the $4,000 subscription be can
celled, which, of course, we agreed to.
About a week after this Mr.. Young
wrote us that we should take the deed
to Marshall. Mo-, and have Attorneys
Davis " O'Rear examine 1t, to see if it
was legal. We did so and the attorneys
gave it as their opinion that the deed
was good, except that it was illegal to
name the three banks as trustees,
because corporations cannot act as trus-
bOOof obN OAlh " "do dloO lllCSbl ~
insert a clause under which MIR. Young
reserved the right of revoking said deed.
We sent their opinion, which we took
in writing, to Mr.. Young. After a few
days he wrote to Clarence Vivion and
asked him to come and bring the deed
with hin. We sent the deed, with the
belief that Mr. Young would change it
so as to conform to the written opinion
given by MessrS. Davis & O'Rear. But
to our great surprise Mr.. Young kept
the deed and wrote us that he had
changed his mind and that the deed
stood revoked. We have therefore,
through this manouvre, lost the property
as well as the $4,000 subscription. He
promised us, It's true, verbally as well
in writing, that he would renew the
$4,000 subscription, but it was neve
done.
Thus the matter stands. We are now
$4,000 short in Il subscription, but we
are far from letting the whole matter
drop. We do not belive that an under
taking like this should depend upon the
favor or disfavOr of n person. Whether
the proposition Will be voted on this fall
or In two years from o remains unde-
cided.
: J. w. HARRISON,
A. +. AsBURY,
e. w. SEEBER,
CHAs. HoEFER,
Committee.
Higginsville, Mo-, July IA, 1896,
Rev. G. A. Buchanan. of HigginsviIIe,
has been called to the passionate OF the
Baptist church at Odessa.