The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-09-17
Attest: ]. L. LELAND. City Clerk.
THE ARKANSAS VALLEY INTERUR-
BAN RAILWAY COMPANY.
LEGAL NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELEC-
TON TO BE HELD OCTOBER
9Th. 1903


9TH, 1903
Notice is herby given that on the 18th
day of September. 1868. there was pre-
sented to the mayor and council of the
city of Wichita (said mayor and coun-
cilmen being duly convened in regular
SESSION. a petition duly signed by two
ffths 60 of the resident tax payers Of
said city of Wichita, praying said mayor
and councilmen to submit 10 the qualified
voters of said city a proposition that the
city of Wichita issue and deliver to the
Arkansas Valley Interurban Railway COM
pany the bonds of said city TO the amount
of Thirty Thousand (SS0.0O0) Dollars to
aid IN securing and paying for right of
way, depot grounds and terminal facili-
ties all upon the conditions as set forth
in said petition, which petition. signatures
being omitted, is in the words and figures
following, to-wit:
THE ARKANSAS VALLEY INTERUR-
BAN RAILWAY COMPANY.
PETITION.
To the Honorable Mayor and City Council
of the City of Wichita:
Inasmuch as The Arkansas Valley In
terurban Railway company. a corpora
ton, organized under and by virtue of
the laws of the state of Kansas, proposes
10 construct a line of railroad from the
city Of Wichita, Kansas, in a southerly
direction to the city of Arkansas City.
Kansas, the undersigned, being more than
two-fifths of the resident tax payers of
the said city Of Wichita, respectfully petit
ton the mayor and council of the said
city of Wichita to call a special election
in the said city, at as early a date as
practicable and legal, at such special cleo
ton to submit to the qualified electors of
the said city a proposition that said city
issue its bonds to the amount of Thirty
Thousand $500 Dollars and deliver said
bonds TO the said The Arkansas Valley
Interurban Railway company TO aid the
said railway company in securing and
paying for lands for right of way, depot
grounds and terminal facilities within the
city of Wichita, under the terms and
conditions hereinafter set forth. Said
bonds to be of the denomination of Five
Hundred (S500.O0 Dollars each, numbering
from one to sixty consecutively; payable
to the said railway company. or bearer,
twenty (20) years after date. redeemable,
however, at the pleasure of the said city
al any time after ten Q0) years after the
date thereof, each bond bearing interest at
the rate of four and one-half 90 per
cent per annum, payable semi-annuauy,
as per interest coupons thereto attached,
payable on the first days of January and
July of each year, the principal and in
terest of such bonds to be payable at the
fiscal agency of the state of Kansas, in
the city of New York. in the state Of
xSyhip
said bonds are to be issued and delivered
to the said The Arkansas Valley Interur-
ban Railway company are as follows:
That said railway company, its success
sors or assigns shall build a standard
gauge railroad to be operated by electric
ity. from a point in the city of Wichita
TO point on the south line of the county
of Sedgwick Kansas. and thence in a
southerly and southeasterly direction
toward the city Of Arkansas City. in Cow
ley county Kansas, with a suitable pas
senger and freight depot within the said
city of Wichita; that the said company
shall also maintain its principal repair
shops and car barns in or near the city
of Wichita, and that the said company
shan commence the construction of the
said road on or before the first day of
May. 1904 and that at least fOrty-flve
G5) miles of the said road commencing
in the said city of Wichita. must be com
pleted and in operation on or before the
first day of May, 1906. unless the construc-
ton thereof be delayed by acts of Provi-
dence. strikes, or injunctions; and that
when the said road is so constructed and
in op-ation for the said forty-five C45)
miles and when the said depot repair
shops and car barns in or near the city
of Wichita are built then the said bonds
to the amount of Thirty Thousand C3o-
00o) Dollars shall be issued and delivered
to the said railway company.
The said railway company shah also
establish and maintain in the said city
of Wichita its principal offices.
1t is expressly understood and stipu-
lated that none of the above bonds shall
he issued and delivered by the said city
Of Wichita until each and all of the above
conditions shall have been fully COM
piled with on the part of the said rail-
way company
We further respectfully petition that
said special election be held conformably
to and as provided for by the laws OF
the state OF Kansas applicable thereto.
and that the said bonds he issued and de-
Iivered 10 said company in accordance
with the 1891 compiled laws OF the state
of Kansas as set forth in Sections 5e97-
1912 inclusive and that the form Il bal
lots to be used at such election shah be
as follows:
Each qualified voter voting for said
proposition shall have printed or written
on his ballot. For bonds 70 The Arkan-
sas Valley InteTurban Railway company.
and each qualified voter voting against
said proposition shall have printed or
written on h's ballot. Against bonds O.
The Arkansas Valley and Interurban
Railway company"
The said mayor and oourcilmen upon
presentation OF said petition found The
same was in writing. in due ard legal
form ard vas signed by more than two
Gfths CO II the resident TAX payers of
said city. ard sid mayor ard ceuuciluen
thereupon granted the prayer II said pc
tition and arlered that d speeisI e.ecuon
be held II the legal voting piac-s IN said
city on tn 9th day II October Ies. Il
determine whether said bonds shaH ~
issued upon the terms AID conditions
SET out aid stated n said petition. ans
said may ? and coOaciimen further or
ds-ed tha IN the event a majority Il the
voters al said special election cast their
votes IL favor OF said proposition and
when the said railway company. It's sue
cexSorS o-- assigns shall have complied