The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-09-18
First Publication September IL, 1905
THE ARKANSAS VALLEY INTER-
URBAN RAILWAY COMPANY.
Mayors Proclamation for Special Eiec-

mayor and councilmen of the city OF
Wichita, Sedgwick county, Kansas, pc
| tition signed by two-fifths co of the resi-
1 dent tax payers of said city, praying that
| said mayor and counc1men submit TO the
! qualified voters of said city at special
election called for that purpose, propo-
sition that said city issue and deliver TO
The Arkansas Valley Interurban Railway
company the bonds of said city TO the
amount of thirty thousand dollars
1890 10000 to aid said Arkansas Valley
Interurban Railway company, its success
ors or assigns, in securing and paying
for risht-of-way, depot grounds and ter
minal facilities in said city, all upon the
conditions as stated and set forth in said
petition, which petition, the signatures
thereto 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 Coun-
Gil 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 to
construct a line of railroad from the city
Of Wichita Kansas, in southerly direc-
ton to he city of Arkansas City, Kansas
the undersigned, being more than two
ifths of the resident tax payers of the
said city of Wichita, respectfully petition
the mayor and council of said city of
Wichita 10 call a special election in the
said city al as early date as practicable
and legal and at such special election to
submit to the qualified electors of the
said city proposition that said city issue
its bonds 10 the amount of thirty thou
sand dollars ($20, 0oO.00) 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 dollars (s5o0.OO each. numbering
from one to sixty consecutively; payable
to the said railway company or bearer
twenty 900 years after date, redeemable
however. at the pleasure of the said city
at any time after ten 90 years after the
date thereof, each bond bearing interest
at the rate or four and one-haf GA per
as per interest coupons thereto 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, in the state of
New York. The conditions upon which
said bonds are to be issued and delivered
to the said The Arkansas Valley Inter
urban Railway Company are as follows:
The said railway company, its success
ors or assigns, shall build a standard
gauge railroad to be operated by electric
ity, from a point in the city Of Wichita
to a point on the south line of the coun-
ty Of Se1gwick, Kansas. and thence in a
southerly and southeasterly direction to-
ward 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
shall commence the construction of the
said road on or before the first day of
May, 1904. and that at least forty-five (45)
miles of the said road commencing in the
said city of Wichita, must be completed
and in operation on or before the first
day of May. 1906. unless the construction
thereof be delayed by acts of providence.
strikes or injunctions; and that when the
said road is so constructed and in opera
ton for the said forty-five (45) miles. and
when the said depot. repair shops an
car barns in or near the city of Wichita
are built, then the said bonds to the
amount of thirty thousand dollars
$50, 00o) shall be issued and delivered to
the said railway company
The said railway company shall also
and maintain in the said city
Of Wichita its principal offices
It is expressly understood and stipulated
that none of the above bonds shall be is
sued and delivered by the said city of
Wichita until each and all of the above |
shall have been fully complied
with on the part of the said railway COM
pany
We further respectfully petition that
said special election be held comforma-
bly, to and as provided for by the laws of
the state Of Kansas applicable thereto.
and that the said bonds be issued and de- /
livered TO the said company in accordance /
with the 1901 compiled laws of the state /
Of Kansas as set forth in sections 5S07- /
1919 inclusive and that the forms Of bal /
lots to be used at such election shall be /
as follows
Each qualified voter voting for said /
proposition shall have printed or written /
on his ballot. For bonds TO The ArlIan- /
sas Valley Interurban Railway Com I
pany." and each qualified voter voting
against said proposition shall have print
ed or written on his ballot. Against /
bonds TO The Arkansas Valley Interur-
ban Railway Company"
And. whereas. said mayor and council I
men upon the presentation OF said petit 4
ton. found that the same was in writing /
and IN due and legal form. and was sign /
ed by more than two-ffths (2-5l OF the /
resident tax payers of said city: and said /
mayor and councilmen thereup0n grant I
ed the prayer Of said petition and ordered /
that a special election be held at the 4
usual voting places in said city on The 4
ath dsy OF October. \. D. 1903 TO deter /
mine whether said bonds shall be issued 4
and stated IN said petition: and said /.
mayor and councilmen further ordered /
that IN the event a majority OF the voters 4
voting at said special election cast their +
ballots IN favor Of said proposition. and I