The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1908-08-13
BUCKIN BREEzEs.
Sheriff H, B. Bell, Of Dodge City,
was in Bucklin few hours Monday.

| SherlH II. b. BELL, OF DouSe CiIy'
was in Bucklin few hours Monday.
D. G. Cook and wife have returned
from their visit TO friends In the eastern
part of the state.
The farmers elevator here is nearing
completion, but 1t will not do the farm
ers Or anybody else much good unit
the railroad company extend the track
to 1t, and they do not seem to be In any
rush to do that.
Mrs. M. A. Culver came up from Fow-
Ter last Saturday. She is at j. r. Nc
Brayer's, whe:e she expects to make bel
! future home. Her son, Harry, is farm
ing the land and she and her daughters
Maggie and Lille, are doing the house
keeping.
Quite a number of Bucklin people arr
attending the reunion at Dodge City
this week, among them the writer's wife
and he Is patching il for few days
Don't like 1t very well but patching al
home Is better than camping at Dodge
City.
/. M. Taylor, Il. 5. Frazier, G, q
Smith. j. A. Luken and B. j. Griffith
have gone to Fort Garland, Colorado.
These five gentlemen 60 as represent
atves of the forty or fifty people of this
community who have been contributing
of their wealth to the San Luis Valley
Land Co., for the past year or more and
who expect to reap rich reward on the
twelfth of August. Whether they will
be disappointed or not remains to be
Sc en-.
"Oh consistency, thou art Il jewell!
but honesty ard fair dealing is much
more valuable asset, but 10 the case
to which we wish to call attention Meth
er of these virtues prevailed. AT the
regular meeting of the board of county
commissioners ia the month Of May,
1908, petition, signed by about seven
eighths of the legal voters embraced in
the boundaries as set forth in the said
petition. This petition prayed the board
of county commissioners 20 incorporate
the town of Buckln, In Ford county, as
city of the tn ird class. This
petition, accordanc with the
law, was published for three weeks be-
fore the meeting OF the board at which II
was formally presented to the board.
We suppose that some Of the commits
sloners read the petition as published, OF
some one else read 1t and told them
about it, and upon that information and
the reptse citation OF the small fraction
Of the legal voters that were Opposed to
Incorporating the town, they decided to
! turn the petition down days before the
time set for the Fearing and before the
petition was legally before them; they
not only determined what they wonld do
TO that petition In advance of any hear
lug, but they made that decision public
to a limited extent, thinking that we
would let 1t drop ut that and that they
could thus escape going on record On
people would not stand for that but went
there on the day set for hearing in such
nunbers, that the board, though reluct-
autly, were compelled to give them
hearing At the hearing it developet
that HE board was of the opinion tina
we were trying TO take in too much ter
ritorJ tn y were then and there aske(
to hange the boundaries in the petition
TO conform to their then expressed vie We
This they declined TO DO, stating that !
would not be legal for them to 40 50
tina they must either grant or reject tht
petition just as it was presented TO then
without any changes whatever Wi'h
ont any action they laid the mater ova
tor one month Al their meeting III jun
they rejected the petition and Informed
us tina. we would have 10 get up a neV
petition with d fferent boundaries. W
did so, making the boundaries to cor
form to suggestions made by member
of the board and their advisers IN
petition went before the board at Ihei
August meeting. At that meeting W
had a committee Of three to present th
petition and lcok after our interests. In
board discussed the petition and CAV
the committee to understand that 1t wa
all right and that 1t was reasonable an
that their action would be favorable, bl
: that hey would not act on that day Dl
would take it up the following Thursda!
On that day we had two trustworthy me