The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-10-17
GRANT THE PETITION
County Commissioners De-
eide on Special Election
TO VOTE ORIENT BONDS
November 20 the Date, and
$4,000 the Amount
TO VOTE ORIENT BONDS

As q result OF q special meeting Of the
county commissioners yesterday morning
at the commissioners rooms in the court
house, a special election will be called for
November %, to vote bonds for the Orient
railroad proposition. Mr.. John A Eaton
and Mr.. c, v. Ferguson represented the
Orient road interests, Mr.. Eaton being of
Kansas City and Mr.. Ferguson of this
city.
The expense Of the election is TO be
borne by the Orient people and will not
be of any COST to the residents Of Sedg-
wick county. A bond for this cost was
presented and in the opinion Of the COM
missioners, If it should not reach the de-
sired amount the Orient road people will
make up the deficiency.
Tho petition which was presented to the
commissioners signed by the required
number OF people is as follows:
PETITION.
The Proposition that Sedgwick County
Aid the Kansas City, Mexico and
Orient Railway Company by Subscrib-
ing to its Capital Stock and Issuing
To the Honorable Board Of County Com
missioners Of the County of Sedswick,
State Of Kansas:
Inasmuch as the Kansas City. Mexico
and Orient Railway Company proposes
to construct a line Of railroad into and
through the County of Sedgwick, in the
State of Kansas;
The undersigned being more than two
f1fths Of the resident tax payers in sad
County, respectfully petition your Hon
orable Board to call special election
in said County at as early cate
practicable and legal, and at such special
election to submit to the qualified cleo
tors Of said County a proposition that
said County subscribe for Eighty
mon and one-half preferred stock Of the
capital stock Of said Kansas City,
Mexico and Orient Railway Company,
a corporation duly organized and ex-
Of TIE State Of Kansas asa0 and nd to issue aM
the bonds Of said County in like amount
of Eighty Thousand Dollars (SS0,0O0) in
payment Of said subscription; which said
in payment thereof shall not exceed
Two Thousand Dollars per mile for each
mile OF railroad constructed in said
County; that said bonds shall be each
of the denomination of Five Hundred
Dollars $500, and numbered from l 10 $50
consecutively, each payable to the Kan
sas City, Mexico and Orient Railway
Company or bearer twenty years after
date, redeemable, however, at the pleas
ure of the said Board of County Commits
sioneTs at any time after ten years after
the date of their issue and each bond
bearing interest at the rate Of four per
cent per aunum, with semi-annual inter
est coupons attached, payable on the
first days Of January and July Of each
year. The principal and interest of such
bonds to be payable at the Fiscal
Agency OF the State of Kansas in the
City OF New York.
The conditions upon which said sub
scription is to be made and said bonds
issued and delivered are as follows:
That said Railway Company, it's sue
cessors or assigns, shall build standard
gauge railroad from point on the north
or east line of said County TO a point
on the south or west line thereof, and
through the City of Wichita, with a
passenger and freight depot in said City.
That said railroad shall be built and
ready for operation of engines and cars
over the same by or before The 3lst cay
of December. 1904, from the City OF
Wichita southwesterly to the Red River
tory OF Oklahoma and the State of
Texas. That the Kansas City, Mexico
and Orient Railway Company, its sue
cessors or assigns shall establish and
maintain in said County. freight and pas |
SenGer divisions, and establish, constr ucr, |
or acquire and put in operation IN said |
County its locomotive or roundhouse and |
principal manufacturing machine and re- |
pair shops for its line of railway at |
which ali work conveniently accessibls |
thereto shall De done and no other prin- |
cipal or main manufa curing N chine |
and repair shops shall be establ shed at /
or between Kansas City, Missouri, and /
the north line Of Texas. Said line into |
or through the City of Wichita may be /