The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-27
Congressman from the Seventh
District Declares He is Out
of Politics for Good.
WILL 60 BACK TO HIS PAPER
Wichita Editor Has Been a Pictur-
esque Figure in House for the
Past Twelve Years.

about. For twelve years Murdoch has
been one of the picturesque and
stormy figures in the House of Repre-
sentatives. March his term expires.
If fortune had favored him, Murdoch
would have been in the Senate OF the
Sixty-fourth Congress. He ran for
that office last fall on the Progressive
ticket. But fortune did not smile, al
though Murdoch is smiling today and
declares he never felt better in his
life.
I'm through" he said. "An my
friends knew it. Some people tell me
I'm not through, but 1 believe know
better. I haven't the slightest idea Of
ever getting back into politics.
I'm going back to the writing
game That's my real business. For
the next year or eighteen months I'll
be doing a good deal of lectuTing, fill
ing contracts already made. But writ
ing is my trade, and I'm glad to have
a chance to get back And by writing
1 don't mean writing letters. That's
about the hardest job a member of
Congress has
81 really came into politics by acct
dent, and not because 1 ever felt it
was my real business. I got a good
licking in the senatorship fight last
fall. I'm not bit sorry now. If there
was any sting in it at the time it was
all taken away by the fact that my
own congressional district stood by
me, as it always did"
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Bio Prices for Kafir.-Corn and kafir
corn prices have reached seventy-five
cents bushel in Chase county, which
is the highest price for this time of
the year Chase county farmers have
received in many seasons. Grain
dealers at Cedar Point, Clements and
Elmdale are paying this price for
grain. According to the railroads
Chase county this year has shipped
more grain than in a dozen years, and
the prices which farmers have receiv-
ed for their crops are almost double
that of the average season.
Fine Singers at Lindsborg.-The
management of the Annual Mes
siah Festival at Bethany College,
Lindsborg, this year have arranged
for recitals by Nine Olive FTemstad
on April 4, and Nine Claussen on
March %. This years program prom
Uses to be the best ever rendered at
the college and a record breaking at
tendance is expected.
Woman Left Large Estate.-Mrs.
Adelia Higginbotham, SO years old,
is dead in Manhattan. She settled
there in 1860. Three children survive
Mrs. Higginbotham leaves a large es-
tate.
Fought Under Doniphan.-Hiram
CLANCY, 80 years old, a veteran of two
wars and a member of Colonel Doni-
phan's regiment in The Mexican War,
is dead at Lebo fro1h blood poisoning,
caused by trimming corn.
Violated Bird Law.-The first ar
rests in Kansas under the new fed
era1 Migratory Bird Law were made
| in GaIena recently. The men were
charged with shooting ducks after the
/ season had closed.
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Pure Bred Cattle Burned.-Fire at
| the Hazford ranch, the property of
/ MI. n. I1dLISLL VI DuInG0
4 Thirty thoroughbred and registeed
Hereford COWS, with calves. They are
said to have been among the purest
Hereford stock in America. Twenty
two nursing cows, sixty tons of alfalfa
and finely equipped barn 60A100 feet,
| with all modern improvements, such
as an electric lighting plant, were
burned also. 1t is believed that the
fire was caused Jy lime used for disin-
fectant as a preeaution against the
| foot and mouth Ciseace.
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The End to '4eer-"Daddy'' James
House, 79 years old, caretaker OF Mir
"a Temple at Pittsburg many years and
known all over Southeastern Kansas,
| died in a hospital at Girard the other
night. In the California gold excite.
! ment in 1S49 he crossed the continent
and spent two years in the gold re
gions.
Mumps Epidemic in K. IAN cpl
| demic Of mumps is threatening the
| DIVERSITY of Kansas About six stu.
dents are i'll. and several others have
been exposed.
Gymnasium is Popular.-NearIy one
third Of the men registered at the Uni
Versity of Kansas take systematic ath
letie exercise in the gymnasium Oh
the 1917 men registered, 47S are en-
rolled at the gymnasium Over three
hundred of these are freshmen.
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Run Down by Ensine.-Carl Sefbert
was thrown from a handcar at Howell
Station and killed when the car was
overtaken by two engines running ex
ira. -Four fellow workmen saved theil
lives by leaping Seibert was % years
old. His lone was at Alden.
Fire Blinds TWins-The twin daugh
tiers of LII and Mrs. h. H. DarnsI
Of Sawyer. are blind as the result O
a fire which destroyed the DarnaI
home. The twins, six months old
were taken to Wichita tc q specialist
who said they probably never wouI,
| regain their sight.
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