The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-16
DEATH OF MRS. MURDOCH
Widow of Late Editor of Wichita
Daily Eagle Succumbs to Stroke
of ApopIexy.

Mrs. Victor Mayberry Murdoch,
widow of the late NJ NJ. Murdoch and
owner of the Wichita Daily Eagle, is
dead as a result of a stroke of apo
plexy which she suffered eleven days
ago. She was 773 years old and
native of Maryland, having been born
at Hagerstown. She was related to
one of the early governors of Mary
land. The family moved to Douglas
county, Kas., near Lawrence, in time
for her brothers to participate in the
battles of the border
Marshall NJ Murdoch and Victoria
Mayberry were married in 1868 and
where Mr.. Murdoch founded and edit
ed the Usage Chronicle.
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Kansas Relief Ship SaiIs.-The
steamship Hannah has sailed for Rot
terdam with a $4,000 cargo of food
and clothing contributed by the people
of Kansas for the relief of the desti-
tute Belgians. The flag of Kansas
few at one mast and from the other
f1uttered a long streamer bearing the
inscription: Prosperous Kansas sends
ship of food to starving Belgians"
Fifty members of the Kansas society
of New York were at the pier when
Mrs. Linden w. Bates, chairman of
the woman's section of the Belgian
relief commission, raised the Kansas
flag to the Hannah's mast Charles F.
Scott, former congressman from Kan
sas, will follow on the steamship st.
Paul to attend to the distribution Of
the food.
Price of Wheat cIimbing.-One dol
lar and twenty cents a bushel was
paid for wheat in Clay Center recent
", that being the highest price paid
there for wheat in seven years At
that price, however, but very little
wheat was sold by farmers, who all
are holding to their grain.
Big Cattieman Dies.-Robert NJ
Wright, fifty years a resident of Fort
Dodge and Dodge City, is dead there.
He was a statewide character in the
cattle industry of the Southwest.
Church Wins Organ.-Under condi-
tions which the First Methodist
Church of Columbus has just filed,
the raising Of the church Indebtedness,
Mrs. R. A Long of Kansas Caty, who
was formerly a member of the church
when resident of Columbus, Will give
the church an organ to cost $500.
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Pays s1-2o for Wheat.-Two local
mills at Arkansas City are paying
s12O for wheat They are buying all
that is offered for sale One miller
has been in business twenty-five years
and says ne never paid that before.
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Wall Smashed Motors.-The walls
Of the three-story rooming house
which was burned in the opera house
fire at Newton on New Years morn
ing, were toppled over by high wind
Martens. The small building was
crushed and ten cars were demolished
Top Notch for Wheat.-The first
load of wheat on the market at juno
ton City this year brought $1.161k per
bushel, the highest price paid there
this season.
Kerosene Burns Killed Giri-Grace
Ferris, IL years old, is dead at Chap
man as the result of injuries received
when she poured kerosene on a slow
fire in a cook stove. The can was
blown to pieces and blazing oil COW
cred the girl
Boy Kills Friend.-Leonard Davis.
II years old. shot and accidentally
killed his companion. Floyd Hockins,
IS years old, while the pair were ex-
aiming an old loaded shotgun at COT
feyville. preparatory to starting on a
rabbit hunt.