The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-09-17
Published September Il, 1903.
THE ARKANSAS VALLEY INTER.
URBAN RAILWAY COMPANY.
Mayors Proclamation for Special EIec.
ton to Be Held October g 1903

mayor and counciimen OF the city OF
Wichita, Sedgwick county, Kansas, a Pc
/ tition signed by two-ffths 60 of the resi-
dent tax payers of said city, praying thai
! said mayor and counc.lmen submit TO The
! qualified voters OF said city al special
election called for that purpose, a propo-
sition that said city issue and deliver to
| The Arkansas Valley Interurban Railway
/ company the bonds of said city 10 the
amount of thirty thousand dollars
| $3.50, 10000 10 aid said Arkansas Valley
/ lnterurban Railway company, its success
ors or assigns, in securing and paying
for right-of-way, depot grounds and ter
minal facilities in said city, al 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
tion, organized under and by virtue of the
laws of the state of Kansas, proposes to
construct line of railroad from the city
OF Wichita, Kansas, in a southerly direc-
ton 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 petition
the mayor and council of said city of
Wichita to call a special election in the
said city at as early a 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 to the amount of thirty thou
sand dollars $50, 00O00) 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 (s5OO.OO) each, numbering
from one to sixty consecutively; payable
to the said railway company, or bearer,
twenty 600 years after date, redeemable
however, at the pleasure of the said city
at any time after ten Q0 years after the
date thereof, each bond bearing interest
at the rate of four and one-half (41a) per
cent. per annum, payable semi-annually
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 10 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 point on the south line of the coun-
ty Of Sedgwick, 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
May 1904, and that at least forty-fvea (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
(s3O0OO) shall be issued and delivered 10
the said railway company.
The said railway company shall also
establish and maintain in the said city
of Wichita its principal offices.
II 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
conditions 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 5sO7-
5912 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 Arkan-
sas Valley Interurban Railway Com
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
men upon the presentation of said petit
ton. found that the same was in writing
and in due and legal form. and was sign
ell by more than two-fifths (2-5 Of the
resident tax payers Of said city; and said
mayor and councilmen thereupon grant
ed the prayer OF said petition and ordered
that a special election be held at the
usual voting places in said city on the
9Th day Of October. 4. D. 1905. to deter
mine whether said bonds shall be issued
upon the terms and conditions set out
and stated in said petition; and said
mayor and councilmen further ordered
that in the event a majority OF the voters
voting at said special election cast their
ballots in favor OF said proposition. and
IN the event that the said Arkansas