Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-04-28


general utility The road is allowed
in accordance with the petition now
on file. except one mile between sec
tion 1, township Is. range % and sec
ton SO. township y, range % which
is laid over for further consideration.
In the matter of road petitioned
for by Ed Cfaycamp and other house
holders of Wa-Keeney township. Be-
ginning at the northeast corner of
section IL, township IL, range "a then
run south 8 miles then commence at
township Ii, range a then run east
one mile and there terminating. Said
road TO be 40 feet wide. The board
finds that the petition is legal and
adjoining land owners have filed a
written release of any claims for
damages and donate the use of the
land to the public for road and in
view of the facts thereof grant the
road as petitioned for and order the
same recorded.
The petition for road in Collyer
township signed by F. F. Stradal and
other householders of Collyer came
on for final hearing as the duly ap-
pointed viewers have reported it
public necessity ana of general util-
ity the road is allowed in accordance
with the petition now on file with
the papers in the case.
@. H. BENSON,
(SeaD County Clerk
Order Incorporating the City of colIyer
Now on the 3rd of April A. D. 1917
the Board of County Commissioners
of Trego. County, Kansas, being duly
called and in session John McNaugh-
ton, A. H. Hamm and S. A. Newcom-
conner, commissioners and G. II. Ben
son, county clerk, present the petit
tion of one hundred ana twenty one
electors of the unincorporated town
of Collyer, in Trego county, Kansas,
came on for hearing by the said board
praying the said board TO incorporate
said town into a city of the third
class. And the said board being duly
in session and fully advised in the
premises finds that said petition is
signed by majority of the electors
of such town, and contains and sets
forth the metes and bounds of said
proposed city of the third class, as
hereinafter set forth, and that there
are over two hundred Inhabitants in
such town and the said board being
satisfied that a majority of the tax
able Inhabitants of such town are in
favor of such Incorporation, and that
the prayer of said petition is reason
able, and satisfactory proof has been
made that such petition has been
published in full in the Collyer Ad
vance newspaper of general circula
tion within said town at least once a
week for more than three consecutive
weeks prior to the hearing of this
petition, the said board being duly
called and in regular session, the
members present as heretofor set out
do declare and order that the unin-
County, Kansas, be and is declared a /
city of the third class, by the name
and style Of the city of Collyer, with
it's metes and bounds as follows,
to-wit.
Beginning at the northeast corner
of the original sownsite of Collyer,
Kansas, and running thence South
along the east line of section 5, in
u, range 25 in Trego
Kansas, to the point of inter
section of the said east line of said
section 5, with the southern boundry
line of the Union Pacific Railway
Company's right of way, thence in a
sou5hwesterly direction along the
said southern boundrv line of said
right of way to the northwest corner
of lot Is, in block 81 of the original |
townsfte of, Collyer, Kansas; thence
due south to the south line of the
above described section 5; thencewest |
along the south line of said section
5 to the point of it's intersec tion with
the southern @boUndry line of the
Union Pacific Railway Company's
right of way; thence in a northeast
erly direction along the northern
boundry line OF said right of way to
I he point of its ;intersection with the
west line of the alley running north
and south through block AZ, of the
original townsite of~Collyer, Kansas;
thence north along the said west line
of said alley to the south line of the
West Side Additions to the town of
CoIlyer, Kansas, thence west along
the south line of said West Side Ad-