The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1920-05-13
First published May IA, 1920
ORDINANCE NO. PSI

signs, the rlgnC, privilege anu auCh-
ority to construct, extend, main
tain and operate railway tracks
through, across and upon certain
streets and alleys, and to provide
for the passage through, upon and
across such streets and alleys, in
the city of Liberal, Seward coun-
ty, Kansas.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and
Council Of the City of Liberal,
Kansas:
Section l.. That the Kansas & Ok
lahoma Railway Company, a corpor-
alton, it's successors and assigns be,
and the same is hereby granted the
right, privilege and authority to
construct, extend, maintain and
operate, railway tracks within the
City of Liberal, Seward County,
Kansas, and upon, across and through
the streets and alleys in the City of
Liberal, consisting of right of-way
twenty (20) feet in width for said
railway tracks, located and situated
on the south side of Locke Street,
in the City of Liberal, at point be-
ginning and extending to and on
Locke Street, which course of rail-
way lines is more particularly here
matter described as follows:
Beginning at a point on the west
side of Block 2, in Glenn's First Ad-
dition to the City of Liberal, on the
east side of Prospect Avenue; thence
west ma westerly direction, running
across Prospect Avenue and across
Jordan Avenue and across Clay
Avenue, in the City of Liberal, at
the beginning of Locke Street in the
City of Liberal; thence west on the
south twenty COY feet of Locke
Street, across Webster, Roosevelt,
Calhoun and Cain Avenues, for a
width of twenty (20) feet on the
south side, the entire length of
Locke Street as now plated, to a
qoint on the west side of Cain Aven-
ne, in the Sunnyside Addition to the
City of Liberal, Seward County, Kan
sas, according to the detailed plan
and blueprint filed with the City
Clerk and which blueprint is made a
part of this ordinance.
Section 2. That the said Kansas
& Oklahoma Railway Company shall
be and is hereby granted franchise
with the right, privilege and author
ity, after the date of the approval of
this ordinance, to lay, erect and
maintain, such poles, wires, appara-
tus and appliances as may be nee
essary and proper for the purpose of
maintaining it's telegraph or tele-
phone lines in connection with said
railway, subject, however, to the
conditions hereinafter provided.
Section 8. That the poles, wires,
etc., shall be erected, placed or laid
under the direction of the City En-
gineer, and as may be regulated by
the City Council of said City, and in
such places and manner as will, con-
sistent with necessity least interfere
with the public uses of said streets
and alleys, and the said streets, al.
legs or crossings shall not be un.
necessarily INSTRUCTED, and the said
railway company will hold the City
harmless from any liability arising
from any negligence, act or omission
arising on its part.
Section 4. That the Kansas &
Oklahoma Railway Company shall
build and maintain suitable cross
ings and passage-ways at the inter
section of all streets and alleys
crossing it's railway tracks, and said
crossings shall conform to the grade
of all streets and alleys within the
City of Liberal that may extend to
and across the railway tracks of said
railway company.
Section 5. That the said Kansas
& Oklahoma Railway Company shall
provide erect and maintain such
suitable and necessary protection at
any and all crossings as may be re-
quired by and conform to the require
ments of the City Council of said
City, and the requirements of the
law; and the Council of the City of
Liberal shall have the power and
right to regulate the crossings of
railway tracks, and to prescribe rules
regulating che same, and toprovide
precautions and regulations for the
running of railway engines and cars
within the limits of said City of Lib
eral, and to govern the speed thereof
and to make such rules and restric-
tions as shall be deemed proper to
prevent accidents at crossings and on
the railway tracks, and to prevent
fires from engines operated upon
said line of railway within said City
of Liberal; and the said Kansas & Ok
lahoma Railway Company will hold
and save the City harmless from any
liability or damage arising or incur
ring to any person, persons, firm or
corporation, by reason of any negli-
ence, act or omission on the part Of
the said railway company.
Section 6. That the Kansas & Ok
lahoma Railway Company shall not
construct, erect or maintain any
roundhouse or shop, operated by
steam power, within the City of Lib
eral on its course of railway lines
between the said points herein des-
cribed, west of Kansas Avenue to
Cain Avenue, in the Sunnyside Ad-
dition to the City of Liberal, Kan
sas.
Section 7. This franchise is
granted upon the express condition
that the grantee, The Kansas & Ok
lahoma Railway Company, it's sue
cessors or assigns, shall construct
and have in operation said railway
on said right-of-way herein granted
on or before December 81, 1920,