The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-19

SELL ALL OF IT.
Deyiin Trustees Ask for Per =
mission to Close Business.
Ready to Dispose of All Real
Property.
INCLUDES COAL T. ANDS
Most Valuable Portion of the
Big Estate.
Means a Wind Up of the
Trusteeship.
INCLUDES COAL LANDS

All of the Devlin property is now in
the market for sale-both real and
personal property not already disposed
OF
The final windup of all the Devlin
matters handled from the office of the
trustee is about to take place. Appli-
cation was filed today asking for per-
mission to dispose of all of the real
property. Application has already
been filed to sell all the personal prop
erty belonging to the estate and the
hearing for this was had yesterday be-
for n. H Loomis and the referee took
the application under Amusement
The action of the trustees at noon
today in seeking an application for the
sale of all the real property remaining
in the hands of the trustees means
that an effort is being made to close
out the trusteeship.
The application stated that it was
the wish of the trustees to dispose of
the property listed at private sale, in
stead of at auction as has been fol-
lowed in a number of instances.
The real estate in Topeka and vicin-
ity was sold to the highest bidder and
bids are now in the hands of the trus-
tess for the sale of all of the real
estate located in Crawford county,
Kansas. The award of these bids has
not yet been made and it will be held
back pending a conference OF the
trustees in this city. The bids in some
instances are only for the choicest por-
tions of the coal lands and the trus-
tees are reluctant to make way with it
in this manner. The real property
which the trustees ask today to sell rs
valued by them under the receivers
report at $500, S61-81. The most
valuable holding is that of the Devlin
coal company. The real property be-
longing to the following companies are
involved, Mount Carmel Mercantile
company. Devlin- Miller coal company,
Crawford County Coal company and
Deylin Coal company.
The application states:
Come now James E. Hurley, Cyrus
Leland, and Walter Reeves, the duly
appointed qualified and acting trustees
Of the estate of the Devlin Coal COM
pany, a corporation in bankruptcy, and
respectfully represent. that for the pur-
pose of winding up the affairs of the
said estate, and of raising fund 10
pay the creditors of said estate, it is
desirable and for the best interest OF
the said estate to sell at private sale,
free from all liens. all Of the real and
personal property belonging to the said
estate.
And your petitioners further repre-
sent, that the real and personal proper
ty belonging to said estate consists or
the following, towit:
Schedule b.. coal rights owned by
the DevIin Coal company in Benning-
ton township Marshall county, ILL.,,
Belle Plain township Marshall county,
Ill. Roberts township. Marshall coun-
ty, ILL.,. Evans township, Marshall eoun-
ty, ILL.,, T. % N. range e: La Sale
county. ILL.,, township 80. N R. 2, E. Sd
p. NJ, La Sale county, comprising in
all a total acreage of 12,432-56 of which |
1855 acres have been mined, leaving
the total coal unmined and remaining
under an acreage of 1895 acres. Above
valued at $3.50, 800
Surface lands owned by Devlin Coal
company in Bennington township, Mar.
9CfG fvacr of
acres, value $92, 509.5 A large number
of town lots improved and unimproved
in the city of Tclucag and lying in the
Santa Fe first addition to the city of |
Toluca, value 500. S95.
Ninety-two houses not located on lots
and blocks in the city of Toluca and
valued at $3.50 each The total amount
being $50, 200. All of the personal pro- |
perty including pumps, boilers, cages
and buildings, etc, located at shaft |
numbers 1 and 2 of the Devlin Coal |
All office furniture and fixtures; all |
store house supplies: all outside sup
plies, and all miscellaneous supplies, |
and personal property belonging to said /
bankrupt remaining on hand valued at I
SIC, 637. The same heading for the ap-
plication exists in the case of the Mount /
Carmel Mercantile company, the Craw-
ford County Coal company and the /
Deylfn- Miller Coal company.
The schedule of the property offered for |
sale and belonging to the Mount Carmel |
lowing
Furniture and fixtures of the grocery |
and dry goods store at Frontenac, meat
m arket. office, watchman's room, out /
buildings. all the store fixtures and stock I
of the store at Chicopee, live stock.
wagons and harness at both Frontenac |
and Chicopee. Both of these above stores
were the usual general stores having a
meat, grocery and dry goods stock COM
bined, value $71,729.34.
The schedule of the real estate of the /
Crawford County Coal company embraces
an undivided one-half interest in 4,,2T3.5
acres in Crawford county. Kansas, in
GLIDING the surface and coal hereunder,
only 172 acres of this land has had the |
coal exhausted beneath it, valued at $225,
efT
The schedule of the property of the |
Devlin- Miller Coal company is listed as
follows
In Crawford county surface area of
2.1o0 acres and a coal area of 2,13o, the
area remaining amounts to 1000 where |
the coal has not been exhausted. All the
shafts and structures and machinery be-
longing to the shafts the above prop
erty. Seven tenement buildings also
included, having value of $344, 1881.