Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-10-04

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And said Railway Company having also filed
with said Board. q designation in regard to
building and operating said Railroad into, in
and through Barber county, Kansas, in which
the general course of said Railroads line was
substantially described as: beginning at the
point where the Denver. Enid Gulf Railroad
shall ntersect the State line between the
State of Kansas and the Territory Of Oklaho-
ma, near the City of Kiowa, in Barber county,
Kansas, thence in a nOrtherly or northwest
erly direction into, in and through said City
of Kiowa to the north or west corporate limit
line thereof thence in a northerly or north.
westerly direction in. along, on, over and
and Little Mule creek. and the meanderings
thereof. or adjacent thereto, in KiOwa, Moore,
Nippawalla and Medicine Lodge townships in
said county to the City of Medicine Lodge,
thence through the said City and Township of
Medicine Lodge to the west line OF the said
last named township, thence in a Northwestern
lands in adjacent to the Medicine river val
ley to the town of Lake City, then westerly
and northerly oyer the most practicable
route through Lake City, Sun City and Turk
ey Cree townships in said County to the
County line, as may be determined and fixed
by the final survey, map. location and pro-
file TO be filed by the said Railway Company
as required by law.
And said Board of County Commissioners,
pursuant to the prayer of said petition, at
said special session Of said Board duly found
that said petition was duly signed by more
| than two-fifths of the resident taX-pay ers of
said County of Barber, and thereupon duly
| ton, and ordered that a special election be
held in said County of Barber on The 9TH day of
November. 1905. to determine whether the said
County shall subscribe for One h undred Thou
sand Dollars of the capital stock of The Den
| ver, Kansas and Gulf Railway Company and is
sue bonds of the said County to the said Rail
way Company in payment thereof in like
| amount, all on the terms and conditions set
| out in the said petition.
| And further ordered that in the event that
| majority of the qualified voters, voting at
said election, east their ballots in favor of
| said proposition, and vote to issue the said
! bonds in payment for the said stock, then the
| County Clerk of said County, for and on be-
half of the said County and in the name of
| the said county, shall forthwith ubscribe for
One Hundred Thousand Dollars of the Ca pital
| stock of the said The Denver, Kansas and Gulf
Railway Company as stated in said petition;
! And further ordered. that if the said The
| Denver, Kansas & Gulf Railway Company fully
| comply with the conditions of the said sub
| scriDtion then the Chairman of the Board of
County commissioners, and the CountyClerk of
| county in the said sum of Sl00,000.00, the said
bonds to bear interest at the rate of five per
| cent. per annum, the principal and interest to
be and become due and payable at the time
| and place stated in said petition; provided
| bonds to the extent of $1,000 per mile Of track
| constructed and operated, and no more. shall
| said rate; and further ordered that the form of
| ballots to be used at the said special election
| shall be as stated in said petition:
| And further ordered that the sheriff of said
|
| for said special election, and give 80 days no.
| tice by publication of said proclamation in
| The Medicine Lodge Cresset. and of this notice
| of special election in The Barber. County In.
| dex each being a weekly newspaper printed
| and published in said county and having gen.
| eral circulation in the said county, and that
said special election be held in all respects as
| required by law.
| WHEREFORE, The said Board of County Com.
missioners do hereby give public notice that
| the said special election so called for the pur
| poses aforesaid will be held at the time ard in
| the manner herein described and set forth. ,
| In Witness Whereof, The board of County
| Commissioners, attested by the County Clerk
| have hereunto set their hands this End day OF
| October, 1905. RILEY LAKE,
Chairman.
| p. W. FLANAGAN,
! Commissioner.
| B. E. WADSwORTH,
| Attest: Commissioner.
(Seal:) And as The Board of County
| Commissioners of Barber County, Kansas.
CIV. WILSON, County Clerk.