Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-11-29
NO GRADING STARTED.
Right OF way for the D. K. & G. in Bar.
Der County not yet Secured. Atty.
Browns Opinion of the
HOD AIR LINE.

10 tnlS city saturday alter weeks
absence on right-of-way matters,
and in response to an interview
relative to progress made and the
present outlook, said:
'No, the contract for construction
of the d. X. & G. from Cherokee to
Medicine Lodge has not been let.
"No, the gang of men near Kiowa
are not graders, it is the surveying
corps crosS-sectioning correcting, ETC.,
of the line.
mo, the right-of-way matters are
not settled by any means, some land
owners have been fair and very fair,
but Others have not shown a DISPOSE
tion to be fair.
'The contract will not be let until
the matter of right-of-way is satisfac-
torily adjusted, and grounds for sta
tionS, sidings etc. secured according to
the agreement made at the Cherokee
Conference, and as outlined in the
proposition filed with the Barber
County Board last September.
"No, don't know anything about
the Hot Air line from Wichita to the
Lodge and on to Amarillo, Texas via
the Off-side of Tucker Hill beyond
Woodward, Oklahoma; we all know
there has been some "air'', probably
the exhaust is not yet quite exhaust
ed. L wonder if this so called "Air-
Line" from Wichita to Amarillo will
be subway, an elevated or an air.
ship line up Medicine valley, and what
will they do with the present road
from Mulvane to Woodward, Quit
claim it for $50?
hight now our enemies are trying
to stir up trouble between Kiowa and
Medicine Lodge, and to accomplish
by indirection what they partially
failed to do directly in the bond elec-
tion. Many things have appeared in
the newspapers at Cherokee and here
that are erroneous about the status of
matters and what the d. X. g. G. have
done and is going to do. Thus our
enemies are getting our friends to in
nocently publish statements that have
no foundation in TACT, and false hopes
are thus built up in that way in many
breasts.
"Now when all the right-of-way and
terminals, ETC., are settled and ready to
be made public, we will give out a true
statement, and the same is true as to
letting contracts and commencing work.
Most Of these erroneous statements are
first told by our enemies to some of our
friends who in turn tell the newspaper
men, and it is done to embarsass us in
getting rightof-way and terminals.
"We regard the matter of right-of-
way, station grounds and terminal facil-
tiles of equal Importance in the prelim-
inaries to the matter Of selling our stock
TO the county for its bonds And think
if our friends will not permit our ene-
mics to stir up dissension that every
thing will be satisfactorially settled in
reasonably short time.
81 can best make this perfectly plain
by using the language Of one of our Of
ficials, when he said, IF we are not to be
furnished what we were led to believe
we would receive in one thing as an in
ducement to go via Kiowa and up the
river, instead of via Alva, how are we to
know that we are to receive any Of the
other things? The right-of-way and
grounds in the cities come before the
bonds in point of receiving; we were Of
fered practically free right-of-way from
Cherokee to Alva and thence to Hardt-
ner in addition to bonuses of cash and
lands far in excess of the bonds voted in
Barber county, but on account of the Of
fer Of free right-of-way and grounds in
the terminal cities in addition to the
bonds, We were willing to buy the coun-
try right-of-way at reasonable figures,
and if the cities in Barber county can
not or will not make good all the above
matter we had better stop right now and
not build in Barber county at all; we
can get reimbursement for every dollar
we have paid out from Cherokee this
way, il we will but accept it and go on
different line from that we were led to
designate in this county by the offers
referred to; if thers is misunderstand-
ing on the part of some that is not our
fault; we are acting on our understand
ing of the Cherokee conference last sum-
mer.'
G. ]. Heise. who has been SO low
with typhoid fever, is reported a
1iffda better this sueelr