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Vic ' ' ' 1 - - ---- , ... .... f .:, . OlTLY OmCIAL PAPER OF DICKIISON COUNTY TWELVE PAGES. VOL XXII. ABILENE, KANSAS. THURSDAY MORNING. MARCH 1(5. 1905. NO. 27. - 1IEW KANSAS ROAD LAW IN EFFECT. LEGISLATURE HAS CHAH9KD METHOD OF , WORK Towaihip Board It in Chargs of the Roads of th. Entire Township Complete Law As How on Statute' Book. One ot tho most impirtaul law. adopted bj tba reoent 1-gislsture was one changing lb. method of working country road(. It took effect by pub lication la.t week. The scope and ; purport of the law n-eras to be that -llroad overseer1 offices are vaoated ' and all road distriot boundaries are obliterated, The entire control and supervision of ell road, in a township are placed in the township board, .whose member, may, if they oboose, appoint not to exoeed four road over leer, at a .alary of two dollar, a day to assist the board in the neoastary work upon the highway.. No change has been made regard ing poll taxe, save that the working thereof will be under the supervision of the township board instead of road overseer, a. formerly. All taxe. as sessed for road purpose, are to be paid in money unles. the township board at the time of recommending the levy adopt, a resolution that the ame .hall be paid in work. The law will neoe.sartly disturb the old order ot things and for a time give cause for complaint, but doubt less when once in operation the new ystam will far surpass th. old in giving satisfactory roads. The law which should be read by every farmer is In full as follow.1. Section 1. The township board, consisting of the township trustee, i clerk and treasurer of eaoh muniolpal Vtownship ot tbi. state, ah.ll be and ' the same are hereby made commis sioners ot road and highway, ot their respective townships; and ,alU roads hall be under the direot control of (be township commissioners of roads and highway, exoept incorporated cities of more than 600 inhabitants and they are hereby authorized to ap point one or more1 roadoverseer. as necessity m.y require, who (hall erve lor a term ot two year, unless discharged tor oause by .aid oommls loner, of road, and highways, and ball receive a salary of two dollars per day for eaoh day', aotnal service for as many day. e.ch year a. .aid commissioners may direot. Section S. All taxes assessed for the pnrposeof constructing .nd main taining publio road, and highways, hall be paid In oash and oollected as provided for In relation to other taxes; and when to collected, the oounty treasurer .hall pay tba .am. to the tre.snrer of the township or oity from which .aid taxe. are eolleoted to be need exclusively for road purposes; unless the commissioners of road and hiirhwav.. when tber meet to recom mend the lev? of the tax, provided .for in tbi. aot, adopt a resolution that the same .hall be paid tn won, in which case .nob tax .hall be worked oat nnder the direction ot the com missioners of road, and highways, as hereinafter provided. Section 4. Whenever it shall have been determined, as hereinbefore pro vided, that .aid tax mar be paid in labor, the eonnty ol.rk .hall, on or before the first day of January next after aaid tax .ball have been levied, famish to the commissioners of road. and highways, in the township in which suoh tax shall have been levied, a list of all taxable real aetata and persons charged with taxee on per ianal property, within their respec tive townships, and the amoont of road tax chargeable to each tract or naraoi. The eeld tax oar then be paid ia labor o.der the direotloa of the eonamleeionars ot roan, ana Big wsvs ot tho township la which the .property la .United, by any able bodied man at tho rate or . one noiiar and fifty oeau per day, aad tba same mount .hall be allowed for a two horse team and wagon or team and plow. It .ball be the duty of the commissioner, of road, and highway. to receipt to each person who peM forms labor on publio highway., in their township, under the provisions of this aot, for the amount of labor so performed, and suoh reoelpt shall specify the land or lands or the per son, for whloh suoh labor was the payment of road tax. Suoh receipt shall be reoeived by the oounty treas urer in payment of road taxe. charged again.t the land, or person, desoribed therein tor (he year, and all road. In townships where the same may be paid In labor, as hereinbefore provid ed, whloh remain unpaid on the 16th day of September .ball be returned to the oounty clerk who .hall charge the earn, against the respective lands, lot. or personal property on the coun ty tax roll for the current year. Section 4. Said commissioner, ol road, and highways shall have entire control and general supervision of all roads and highway, in their re.peo tire townships, and all tools, Imple ments and road maohinery, together 1th all materials for the construc tion of culverts and bridges, shall be purohased by the commissioners of roads and highways; and such com missioners are hereby empowered to let by oohtract to the lowest respon sible .bidder any road work in their township where they deem it sdvi.- -able to do so after first having given due notloe of the letting of such con tracts; provided, however, that said commissioners or any ot them shall not be financially interes.ed in any said contraot. Seotlon 5. Tae oosrmissioner. of roads and highway, shall have author ity to divide their respective town ships into not more than four road distriot. with power to change the number and boundaries of the same not to exceed four in number, and .ball appoint one road overseer for eaoh distriot; all road overseer, sball make full itemized and swo'n reports to the commissioners of roads and highway, on th. last Monday of April and October in each year, reporting all work done by them, day. worked, giving dates of .ame, of money, ool- leoted by them, bow expended, ana all Information said commissioners or roads and highway, may require; and for failure to make said report or any negleot ol duty, commissioners of road, and highway, may disoharge eaoh road overseers; provided that no road overseer .hall incur any obliga tion not authorized by the board. Section 6. No road overseer In tbi. .tat. .hall make or cause to be made any ditch -mora than two feet deep without the consent and ap proval of the commissioners o: roads and highway; and in any case where a ditch one foot deep or more shall be mad in front ol any residence prop erty, the road overseer shall oonstruot and maintain a bridge or culvert at the usual entranoe connecting .aid residenoe property with the publio highway to as to make a good and substantial crossing ov.r any ditch so made. Seotion 7. Nothing in this act ahall be so construed as to prevent the requiring ot each male resident between the ages ot twenty-one and forty-five yeara from performing two day labor oa tba highway a. now provided by law. Seotlon 8. For the purposs of car rying out the provision, of thi. aot the commissioners ol road, aad high way (hall recommend to the oonnty commissioners ol eaoh oonnty in this state oa or before th Bret day ot August ol each year a levy of aot mora than five mill oa tho dollar on all the property in soeh township, and it shell b the duty ol the county clerk to place (aid levy on tho tax rolls of said county; provided that ao provision of thi aot shall be construed to inperoede any special aot. BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF Ml) KEEN AND SURROUNDING COUNTRY. ABILENE'S CITY CAMPAIGN, PART OF TICKET NOMINATED. V "it" TIM HERSEY EXPRESSES THANKS FOR CITY'S GIFT. .B. A. Lott ..A. B. Elwlck First ward Second ward Third ward Fourth ward VOa MEMBERS SOBOOLBOARD. First ward (Ind.) Theo Nusi Second ward , F- O. I'ullter Third ward J. A. Tufts Fourth ward H. E. Ackers A few weeks ago the city oouocil made out a deed to X. F. Hersev, the founder of Abilene, for the cemetery lot on which in early days were bnried bis three children. J. B. Ed wards has reoeived this letter of ap preciation: Castle B&ck. Wash , Feb. 27. 1 caught a bad cold four week. ago .nd la grippe came to help It on, net.ee my delayln writing In rep.y to your kind favors to which will now try ana reply. I feel erateful to Green Lamb for giving you the information about the "1 i' . Typer Chili, j At th Latheraa pereoaege by Kev. ' iP. Brgtrwspr Saturday avealag x were married Mis Hal1 Typer aad Willies. W. Child, two of AMlene'e popular yoaeg Pop'- They hare -the goedwthee of e host of frieada. Haey will reside oa Weet Third. Oeerr Brat Serieaily HI. George Eyor. who was oa ol Abi- lea high school's brtghteat atodeaU aad who bat beea making a Sue record In t D., U seriously UlatUwraace with typhoid fever. Dr. Felly vlelled him at Lawrence Sunday. T. F. BBR.ET. , . native stone. There doe not remain the slightest doubt in my mind now. I a.so received the deed for the lot In the oemetry. Think., thanks, with tears. Jerrr Baldwin left Abilene about the time you came. Mr. Nioolay and other will remember bim. I reoeived a nice letter from John Irwin whloh I answsred yesterday. and also sent him my ploture. Nearly all of my old Irish friends have croeeeo the Biver of Death, You ask where I have beea camp- iat out these rear, since I left Kan- sas. Ia answer will say my lather moved la 1834 to aorthera Illinois on Bock Hirer. The Black Hawk war had iuat closed one rear before. Of course the country thea was jnst as atur had mad it, all tba Indians than being friendly, tdy tut for tb wild was then aad there ooatraotod and I shall never oaUive Ik Tba it waa that in 1881. when Kansas be came tattled ap, I toned I oonld aot etaad It so rested my mill aear caw- ker City aad started for the Toagne Elver aoaatryla Wyoming. 1 toon with ate ire team, loaded with aaw mill snaeataar . 800 aellee to that ooaetrr. all anaettled except (took ranching. I erected a mill, water power, which I sold lata la l&e law that year aad retarded to Kaa. Ia th sarins? ol 1882 I went back with eight loaded teams. Taking ma ohinery for both saw and flour mill, including two turbine water wheel., I Improved a water power, built a flume 400 feet, set turbine wheel and wa. sawing lumber la 89 days. A tew settler, had com. in daring 1881 and some wheat wasrsised, so pushed was' grinding wheat by Not. 1st that year, 1882. a 1883 I sold both mills, taking horses and mules for pay; took up and improved 800 aorea of land and went Into debt for some importea tack. In 1891 I bad 240 head of tnnk and waa offered 48.000 for (took and ranoh which w.s not over one- halt of its valus, and whloh, of course, I did not teke. In 1893 the panto same and Tim went op. My health failed so I turned over everything ex- cent one team and tsuu oasn, who r . .... which I started to go overland to L.os Angeles, California, where my lamuy had moved. I stopped in Denver, meeting an old friend that bad been mlninir far twentv vears. He per- O mm suaded me to .top and go to prospect ing for the winter, i ie sure we nsu something good .nd kept on until my $600 was alf blowed in, but stayed there and kept prospecting until 1901 when I was taken eiok. Tbedootor told me I had onlr a abort time to live and had better to to my family I before too late. I wrote to my .on at I . . . , , A nl. LOS Angeiee ana reoeiveu uu wrote to Cawker City ana lonnu my inn had moved to Castle Book, Wash. Selling my team I arrived here Deo., 1891; wa. absent from my lamuy from 1882 nntll 1901. In 1892 I re ceived a fall, breaking- both feet and left ankle joint, but am quite a uveiy old chap yet. Mv trouble in Colorado wa catarrn of th stomaoh, but I am perfectly t T l 2, t cured here, l wrote rfooo irwm oonld soend one week in Dickinson oonnty with old friend yet aliv I would dia oontented. Last Saturdav I helped to bury ao old friend who I knew la Kansas 40 year sgo. He lived southwest of Saline. Mv hand oalns ma ao alter grlppiug th peneU a short Urn that I writ la mil mlMrr. so moon o tnai I leer I shall hava to give op preparing mat- tar lor Friend Martin, wnas i neve blocked ant sorer too much lor to finish with my poor dtfnaot bead. Kind regard to aw, I. F. Hnsir Th Stela Historical Society has however, offered to par a stenog rapher to take Mr. Heresy's story aad typewrite it ia order that It may be placed aatoag toe mee oi to mmnj- Fatroaiaa Abileae Steam leuedry A lZJsifi(t(BiP There is a quality in Royal Baking Powder which makes the food more digestible and wholesome. This peculiarity of Royal has been noted by physicians, and they accord ingly ' endorse and -recommend it. ROYAL BAKINQ POWDE. CO., NEW YORK. fOR OOUSOII.M AH. ,.B. h. Miller .J. E. Keel The Republican ward caucuses were held In the several wards last nltrht and were well attended. The proceeding, ware: First ward C. w. Farker chair man, J. B. Favor secretary. H. L. Miller was nominated for oounoil over C. Lightner. No nomination lor sohool board. T. Nusc will be reelect ed without opposition. Seoond ward H. E. Ellison ohair- man, C. A. Caseseorelary. Delegates were selected by a oommittee ot three, C. C. Wy.mlt, H. K. Humphrey, W. 3. Anderson. J. E. Keel was nomi nated for oounollman over Ward Davie. F. B. Pullver was nominated by aoclamation. C, C. Wyandt wa. named for Ward committeeman. Robert Korn jade and J. H. Giles olerk were sppolnted to oondnol pri maries. Third ward M. P. Jolley ohair- man, H. W. Jacobs seoretsry. H. A. Lott was nominated for oouootl over u. W. Sohretner and W. A. Undas; J. A. Tuft waa nominated lor lohoolboard over P. O. Hoffman. Fourth ward S. 8. Smith chair- man, H. W. Wilson seoretsry. A. B. Elwick for oounoil and H. E. Aoker for sohoolboard nominated by accla mation. L. D. Mlnner judge and W. A. Price clerk were appointed to con duo t primaries. The delegate ohoien tor th oity oonvention are: Delegate. J. B. Favor J. 8auer W. Messenger C. W. Parker L. Lip. SECOND WABD, FIRST WARD. Alternate. B. W. H.y.. Geo. Snyder J. B. Ramsey J. Tout O. B. Glsh C. A. Case J. H. Giles Geo. Hoffman H. E. Ellison Harry Keel T. C. Malay A. W. Rice D. R. Gordon Joseph White Douglas Simpson Ward Davit J. E. Brewer O. B. Land.s ' J. A. Graves. J. A. Wilkia J. N. Burton , THIRD WARD. P. W. Heath D. F. Keller Jaa. Adams J. G. Lsndes C. E. Shadinger O. W. Schrelner J. A. Hopkins M. L. Dobkins G. B. Kirk J. P. Powell W. T. Davidson T. Mitchner P. H. Halleok G. F. Jones FOURTH WARD. S. S.Smith A. R. Elwlok C. C. Towner L. D. Minner Dr. N. W. Hayea Cnas. Cooley Wm. Shane J. P. Qulnn H. E. Ackers 9. Glpe N. Vandenburg T. M. Langston. PROPOSITION TQ VOTE TAX FOR CITY LIBRARY SUPPORT. A netltloa askine that at the city eleotion be submitted a proposition to levy a one mill tax for tne puono u brarv waa circulated by the library association Saturday afternoon and la la short time reoeived the required so sienature. ol tsx-psyers. Not per son refused m it we recognized as a moat worthy movmnt. TV mattar will be voted on at the oomlng elec tion and il carried th council will levy tb tax. Th law providing for suoh levy is: ..Tn.i noon th written petition ol fifty tax-payar. of any oity, presented to the mavor and oltv oounoil shall cause to be submitted to th legal voter ot such oity, at the first oity election theseafter, or, II th petition muiu. at a aneaial election to be called for that purpose, the qneetloa Of tBO OOWDllBDIBeeteev biiuw.u of a free publio library aad reading room by such oity, aad it a majority ol the vote oaet at suoh eleottoa shall be ia favor of tba eetablithmeat and maintenance, or maintaaeaeo, ot such library and rsading-room, th mayor and city conncil shall annually there after levy a tax aot to exoeed two mill on th dollar in olties ot th first and seoond class, and not to exceed two and one-hall mills on the dollar ol the third olass, on all taxable firoperty In suoh otty; suoh tax to be vied and oolleoted in a like manner with other taxes of said oity, and to be known a. the 'library fund.' " . The city owe It to th library aad to itself to that this proposition oarrles. It should not be thought that the small amount lalsed will .op port th. library. It will ju.t about pay the running expense., allowing the women who are working o hard to make it a success to use the money they raise to bay. book.. II tbi. tax 1. oerrled the library will b abso lutely free with no charge for taking ont books aad this privilege alon will repay th extra tax of almost any taxpayer ia th oity. A on mill tax seen only II oa $1000 as seated val aatloa and It will not be missed by anyone. Xr. Jama Itraebna Dead Mrs. Jem Straohaa died at her home aear Bon accord thi morning of pneumonia, aged 70 year. She leave a husband aad adopted daugh ter aad we highly esteemed by 1L She we bora ia England bat has lived ia Dickiaaoa maay year. Faa eral aervtee Taeedey at 10 a. as., barial la Mt, Pleasant cametary. H P. KorUy I Dead. A telegram from Osawatoml aaya that Harry P. Morley, formerly ot this oity bat who has resided there) several years, died thi moralng aged about 41 year. Ha leaves a wife and family. He wa a brother ot Mr. Elite Peek aad Mr. Q. Rolosoa of thi city aad had maay friends here.