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Show FIGHTING FOR A COUNTY SEAT. Rivalry Iletwcen Towns or a ktuiii Illi- trlet for Capital Ilonori, Hiawatha, Kan., Jan. 10. Since the court house burned at Marysville a county seat fight has started and a relocation re-location is possible.- The county commissioners com-missioners cannot borrow money or levy a tax without the vote of the people.- The county folks and tboso of the smaller towns want a change, but it takes a two-thirds vote to secure it. Two of the small towns oiler to build a new coort house free of charge. Axtell offers forty acres of land and has raised enough money to build a court house worth three times -, the one biTrned. By being liberal they bope-to get two-thirds of the relocation volo. |