Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-10-11

by law?
And said Raj way Company having also fiea
with said Board. a 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 4 Gulf Railroad
shall intersect 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 portherly or northwest
erly direction into, in and through said City
OF kt0wa 10 the north or west corporate limit
line thereof. thence in northerly north
westerly direction in. along, on, over and
through the lands lying between Medicine river
and Little Mule creek, aud the meanderingS
thereof, or adjacent thereto, in Kiowa, Moore.
Nippawalla aud 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 or adjacent to the Medicine river val
ley to the town of Lake City, thence 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 flied by the said Railway Company
as required by law.
And said Board of County Commissioners,
pursuant to the prayer of said petition, at
said regular 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 thercupon duly
made an order granting the prayer of said petit
ton, and ordered that a special election be
held in said County of Barber on The 18th day of
November, 1905. to determine whether the said
County shall su bscribe for One Hundred Thou
sand Dollars OF the capital stock of The Dem
yer, 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.
a majority of the qualified voters, voting at
said election. cast 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 subscribe for
stock of the said The Denver, Kansas and Gulf
Railway Company as stated in said petition;
And further ordered. that il the said The
Denver, Kansas & Gulf Railway Company fully
comply with the conditions of the said SUBJ
scription then the Chairman of the Board of
County commissioners, and the CountyClerk of
said county, shall duly issue the bonds Of said
county in the said sum of 300 000.00, the said
bonds to bear interest at the rate of five per
cent. per apnum. 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 pr mile of track
be issued, and not to exceed for fifty miles at
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 flu rther ordered that the sheriff of said
county, duly make and issue a proclamation
IOT edlu spcCidl tltCtlOu. duu give ~ udyS HO.
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 weekly newspaper printed
and published in said county and having geu-
eral circulation in the said county. and that
said special election be he'd in all respects az
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: Com missioner.
(SeaI:) And as The Board of County
Commissioners of Barber County, Kansas.
G. w. WILSON, County Clerk.