Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-04-10
COMMISSIONERS PROCEEDINGS.

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one-half days last week, adjourn
ing at noon on Thursday to meet
again on May end to let contracts
for two steel bridges, one to be
built at Kiowa and one at Sun City.
The business transacted at this
meeting was as follows:
M. L. Mcmillan was given a Ger.
tihcate of error for $1.o2 on &C.
count of constitutional exemptions.
He resides in Sharon township.
U. L. Thompson was appointed
clerk of Eagle township. R. c.
Kenney was elected but he failed
to qualify.
L. P. Graves purchased lots IA
to Io inclusiveand fractional blocks
IoI to 112 inclusive, in Hazelton
for $I.oo per lot and $I.oo per
block and fees.
Clarence Martin was appointed
trustee of Nippawalla township.
R. L. Groendycke was elected to
that Office last fall but he refused to
qualify. He had served notice on
his constituents in the fall that if
they drafted him again he would
not serve and he made good: r.
L. has been at the top notch as
trustee of ability.
Fred Thresher was appointed
constable of Valley township. The
man elected to that Office in the
fall also refused to qualify.
G. D. Sayers of Valley township
was given a certificate of error for
$4.oo on account of erroneous as
sessment of personal property.
The nw4 of 36-3o.I3 school land
In Elm Mills township was expos
ed to sale on petition of. A. Mccoy.
w. H. Brownback was allowed
to redeem the ne4 of 34.34-14 for
flat taxes and penalties.
f. Jackson guardian) was given
a certificate of error for $5.o5 on
account of property being assessed
in both Hazelton and Cedar town
ships.
G. R. Scott and P. L. Lake were
appointed to assist the proba te
judge in examining the county
treasurer's books next quarter.
Mrs. May Lytle was given GER
tifcate of error on a valuation of
$35.32 on account of error in as
sesSment in this township.
Interest coupons amounting to
$3,345.5o were destroyed, same
having been paid by county treas
urer.
The Index was again designated
the official county paper and
awarded the county printing at the
same rates paid last year.
0. A. Winter purchased lots 1,2,
3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, g, 10, II, block g,
Sharon, for IS cents per lot and fees.
DR.. D. E. Tedrow was allowed a
compromise redemption on lots So,
95, 81, 70. 81, "a, and 70, Kansas
avenue east, this city, for IS cents
per lot and fees.
F. ]. Wadsworth was allowed to
redeem lots 6 and 7, Washington
avenue west, Lakes addition this
city, on all except sales of 1902 for
81 per lot and fees.
DR.. A. S. Cloud of Kiowa was
appointed county physician and
health officer for south half of the
county at 500 per year, he to fur
nish all medicines, transportation,
ETC., to county patients. DR.. c. D.
Updegraff was appointed for north
half at $40 per month, he to fur
nish his own materials, the same as
DR.. Cloud.
The reports of viewers on roads
petitioned for by w. E. Galloway
and Others in Mingona township,
and John Young and others in Tur-
key Creek township were accepted
and the respective roads ordered
opened. The-road petitioned fo1
by Walter Jackson and others in
Elm Mills township was not order
ed opened at this meeting. The
board will go up to look over
the ground personally wnen they
meet the first week of next month.
A road petition presented by c.
A. Blackmore of Sharon township
praying for a road beginning in the
proximity of 8-32-1o was acted up.
on favorable. H. M. Stone, John
MacGregor and R. ]. Taliaferro
were appointed viewers. Date of
viewing will be given officially in
these columns later.
The closing official action of the
board was to issue the Denver,
Kansas & Gulf Railway bonds
voted in aid of the railroad in the
fall of 1905. The aid voted was
$4,000 per mile not exceeding so
miles. The exact mileage that the
road covers in Barber county is
xSOSz The amount of bonds ;e.