Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-12-29
First Published in The Barber County Index
December Is. 1899.
Notice Of Condemnation

STATE OF KANSAS, BARBER COUNTY, SIS:
In the matter of the appropriation of lands
in rber County, Kansas, for the use of
The Kiowa, Hardtner & Pacific Railway
Company.
The State of Kansas to all persons interest
ed in or claiming any title to or interest in
any lands desired for the use of The Kiowa,
Hardtner Pacific Railway Company:
Notice is hereby given that we, the under
signed. commissioners thereunt0 duly ap-
pointed by the Honorable P. B. GIlett. Judge
of the District Court of Barber County, Kan
sas, will, on
TUESDAY, the 18th day of JANUARY, 1910.
at 10 O'Clock A. NJ of said day, proceed to lay
off according to law for The Kiowa, Hardt-
ner s. Pacific Railway Company along the line
OF its proposed railroad. as now surveyed and
located by said company, such survey and To-
cation to be shown by the map of the road
line or route of said railroad, to be filed in he
office of the County Clerk of Barber County.
KS. "a route for said proposed railroad, tn rough
and across the quarter-sectiOns or other lots
or tracts of land which may be crossed by and
which may be desired by said railway COM
pany in the construction of its said railroad,
not exceeding one hundred feet in width, ex-
cept for the purpose of cuttings and embank-
meDtS il shall be necessary TO take more
for the proper construction and security of
the road through as much of the lands, lots
or other tracts of land as may be desired by
SAID railway company. and of such width.
within the limits aforesaid, and upon such
location as may be desired by said company,
and also such lands as may be deemed neceS-
sary for side-tracks, depots, workshops, wa
ter-Stati0nS, materials for construction. eX
cept timber, the right-of-way over adjacent
lands sufficient TO enable the said company to
construct and repair it's road and stations,
and a right to conduct water by aque-
ducts. and the right of making pr, per
drains. and will carefully survey, and will
carefully ascertain the quantity of land nee
essary for such purposes. out of each quar-
ter-sectiOn or other lot or tract of laud
through which SAID route, side-tracks, ETC., is
so located, and appraise the value of such por-
ton of any such Quarter-SectiOn, or other lot
or tract of land so appropriated, and assess
the damage thereto, irrespective of any sup
posed benefits to that not appropriated. and
when we shall ascertain that such portion or
such Quarter-sectiOn or other lot or tract of
land belongs to different owners, we will APP
praise the value and assess the damage OF
each such owners interest. We will COM
etc, az aforesaid on the line of said COM
pany's railroad as located at the point where
said line of location crosses the main track
of the right-of-way of the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe Railway Company short distance
south of said last named compapy's depot
near the City of kiowa. in said county, and
will proceed with our duties from that
point at the above stated time, in either d1rec-
tion as may be desired. and we will adjourn
from time 10 time and from place to place on
the line of said route until our labors in this
behalf are complete.
Dated at Medicine Lodge, Kansas. in said
county, this 18th day of December. 1869.
RILEY LAKE, Commissioner.
B. E. WADSwORTB. Commissioner
j. B. HARBAUGH, Commissioner.