Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1864, APRIL. 361 COUNTY FINANCES. APRIL. April 1 - A. G. Beller elected mayor of Weston, James McDowell mayor of Leavenworth, and Col. Penick mayor of St. Joseph. Leavenworth wagons still cross and take back wood; but Si Gordon appears, and takes from John Jordan his wagon and team. There was no more stealing. April 16 The business part of Plattshurg is burned. Loss. $100,000. J. B. V. McCall having died. Clint. Tillery admillisters. Bond, $3,000. REMOVAL OF THE COUNTY SEAT TO ESTON. April 23 - A writer in the Border Times advocates the removal, and Beller, the editor, comes out strongly in favor of it. The time is propitious: the court-house and jail have been burned, Platte City is in ashes, and, from disloyalty, is almost deserted. This is the beginning of a long controversy. MAY. COUNTY FINANCES. May 1 - Tax Books 1864: Land, $2,358,585; money, etc., $508,259; personal property, $385,088; town lots, $275,395; total, $3,527,327. State tax assessed, $13,630; military tax, $11,740; county tax, $19,979; total, $45,349. Levy, State, 32 cents; county, 48 cents. The annual exhibit for 1864 is not now of file, nor of record. Judge S. P. S. McCurdy is appointed a territorial judge for Utah, and goes west. May 10 - Maj. J. W. Hardesty, started with a train of 42 wagons, laden with merchandise, valued at $200,000, expecting to arrive in California by July 15th. The average cost of his horses and mules was $250.