Incorporation of Bluff City

From the Bluff City Tribune, dated June 16, 1887, on Thursday:

Petition for Incorporation. In the matter of Incorporation of Bluff City, Harper County, Kansas. To the Honorable Board of Commissioners of Harper County, Kansas.

We, the undersigned electors of the unincorporated town of Bluff City in said County of Harper, respectfully show to your honorable body that the number of inhabitants of the town is about four hundred and fifty (450) and that the metes and bounds of said town are as follows, to wit:

Beginning at the norwest corner of Section twenty-one (21) in township thirty four (34) south of range five (5) west, thence extending east-wardly along the north line of the northwest quarter of said section twenty-one (21) nineteen hundred (1900) feet to the east line of Fifth street in Bluff City, thence south along the ling of said Fifth street and parallel to the west line of said section twenty-one (21), thirty seven hundred and forty-eight: (3748) and five-tenths feet to a point on the south line of Ash Avenue, crossing the section line between sections twenty (20) twenty-one (21) thirty-eight hundred (3800) feet to a point on the west side of Fifteenth street, thence extending north along said west side of said Fifteenth street, and parallel with the east line of said section twenty (20), thirty-seven hundred and eight feet and ten inches (3708-10) to the north line of said section twenty (20), thence eastwardly along said section line of said section twenty (20), nineteen hundred (1900) to place of beginning, all in Harper County, Kansas.

Wherefore, your petitioners pray that you make an order incorporating said town as a city of the third class, in pursuance with the statutes of Kansas in such cases provided, under the name and style of Bluff City.

Signed by:
James Glover
W. A. Miller
J. E. Harris
J. L. Dunham
S. A. Evans
P. F. Wright
N. V. McCain
M. J. Lusk
J. G. Young
E. S. Donnell
W. W. Piper
P. P. Lewis
J. N. Johnson
J. H. Porterfield
C. F. Bontwell
D. Bennett
W. Morgan
T. H. Hedwick
J. W. Arnold
0. Patton
W. Clossey
I. I. McCarty
John Blackwelder
W. S. Gloyd
Theo Craft
O. W. Green
Kirt Russell
Robt. N. Andrew
John Gore
W. V. Williams
W. W. Bird
L. D. Davis
D. L. Freeman
Wm. Dowell
S. E. Bollinger
F. 0. Miller
B. F. Crews
A. Н. Barrett
J. W. Wade
Chas. Wadlow
Chas. W. Fisk
I. J. Donnelly
C. B. Fail
John M. Fisk
C. B. Austin
D. W. Wagner
C. E. Meyers
D. Roseborough
John McKeever
T. A. Lambert
J. L. Duff
John E. Heath
J. I. Hixson
Chas. Goodman
S. T. Francis
John Harrington
John Cogswell
W. A. Brown
W. V. Willingham
Chas. Todd
E. N. Walker