Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-06-16


After adjourning as a Board OF
Equalization, the Board convened in
special session on Wednesday after.
noon in consequence of call made by
Chairman Walker. Quite number of
certificates of error were issued which
were of rather urgent nature. The
bond of the Citizens State Bank, coun.
ty depository, was approved.
Another matter Of local importance
was road issue which the Board dis
posed of. At the meeting last July a
road was opened on the line between
sections three and four and nine and ten,
township thirty -four. range eleven petit
toned by Ca. Decatur and others, but it
seems that accomplishments for dam
ages were not signed and the order was
therefore set aside. On Friday morn
ing, the day following last weeks ad-
journment, a delegation from Moore
township headed by Trustee C.D.New-
kirk and D. M. Circle came up to enter
protest over the closing Of the road
but. of course, found that the Board
was not IN session. They expressed
considerable dissatisfaction over the
Boards taking this action without
hearing from all parties concerned.
They say that it will work great incon-
venience to great many people in the
neighborhood if the road is closed and
that great injustice would be done. We
believe that the Board was imposed up-
on by Mr.. Kaufman, the man who ask
ed that the road be closed, and that
they were made to believe that the
road was not desired by anybody in the
neighbOrhOod. But it is not advisable
to take action too hastily in matters of
this kind as there are invariably two
sides to be heard. MIR. Newkirk and
others came up again yesterday when
Wyer and Rankin returned from Tope-
ka, and went before the Board and
asked them to rescind the order closing
the road which was done without any
opposition. AS we stated before it was
a local matter and all of the parties got
together since last Thursday and it
was settled satisfactorily. This leaves
the road open and nobody is complain
ing.
When we went to press last week it
was thought that only two men-Com-
missioner Wyer and Treasurer Jones
would meet l.. A. Bigger at Topeka
on the 18th, but for some reason Com
missioner Rankin and Recorder Smith
were as added to the list and they all de-
parted for Topeka on Friday and re-.
turned home yesterday. The purpose
of the trip was to secure funds to COM
promise the bonded Indebtedness of the
county, and, while 1t has not yet been
terminated, the indications are that q
loan will be negotiated some time this
summer. For fear that what we might
say in this connection may have a ten
dency to thwart the plans of the Board
and Mr.. Bigger we cannot 60 into the
matter in detail as we would under 9th.
or circumstances. 1t is the intention
of the Board to do the very best for the
county that can be done and it is best
TO Keep the agents OF the bOndhOlders
unadvised as to their method of proceed.
ure. But at all events we can safely
say that Mr.. Bigger and the county
authorities will in all probability nego.
tiate loan from the State School Fund
commissioners to lift part of our bonded
Indebtedness at greatly reduced rate.
This, of course, is not definite. The
State Board will not agree to invest
school funds before the validity of the
bonds has been established by the
courts nor until the case which is now
pending against the county is settled
1t is expected that all these things will
be adjusted within thirty days but
nothing can be said positively as to
this. The commissioners adjourned
yesterday evening.