Meade County news., 1915-02-25
Congressman from the Seventh
District Declares He is Out
of Politics for Good.
WILL GO BACK TO HIS PAPER
Wichita Editor Has Been a Pictur.
esque Figure In House for the
Past Twelve Years.


stormy figures in the House OF Repre-
sentatives. March his term expires.
If fortune had favored him, Murdock
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 Murdock is smiling today and
declares he never felt better in his
life.
I'm through" he said. "All my
friends knew it. Some people tell me
I'm not through, but | believe | know
better. ! 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 good deal Of lecturing, 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
don't mean writing letters. That's
about the hardest job member of
Congress has.
Il really came into politics by acci-
dent, and not because | ever felt it
was my real business. l got good
licking in the senatorshp 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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Big 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 dozen years, and
the prices which farmers have receiv-
ed for their crops are almost double
that of the average season.
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Fine Singers at Lindsborg.-
management Of the Annual Mes
siah Festival at Bethany College,
Lindsborg, this year have arranged
for recitals by Nine. Olive Fremstad
on April 4, and Nine. Claussen on
March 2S. This years program prom
ises to be the best ever rendered at
the college and record breaking at
tendance is expected.
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Woman Left Large Estate.-Mrs.
Adelia Higginbotham, 83 years old,
is dead in Manhattan. She settled
there in 1860. Three children survive.
Mrs. Higginbotham leaves large es-
tate.
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Fought Under Doniphan.-Hiram
Clancy 80 years old, veteran Of two
wars and a member OF Colonel Doni-
phans regiment in the Mexican War,
is dead at Lebo from blood poisoning,
caused by trimming a corn.
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Violated Bird Law.-The first ar
rests in Kansas under the new fed
eral Migratory Bird Law were made
in Galena recently. The men we're
charged with shooting ducks after the
season had closed.
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Pure Bred Cattle Burned.-ETire at
the Hazford ranch, the property of
Mr.. r. H. Hazlett of Eldorado burned
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, we're
burned also. It is believed that the
lire was caused by lime used for disin-
fectant as a precaution against the
foot and mouth ciseace.
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The End to a '49er.-"Daddy" James
House, 79 years old, caretaker Of Mir
"a Temple at Pittsburg many years and
known all over Southeastern Kansas.
died In 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.
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Mumps Epidemic In K. IAN cpl
demic OF mumps is threatening the
T. iversity Of Kansas. About six stu.
dents are Ill. and several others have
been exposed.
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Gymnasium 10 Popular.-Nearly one
third Of the men registered at the Uni.
versity Of Kansas take systematic ath-
letic exercise in the gymnasium. OF
the 1917 men registered, ATS are en-
rolled at the gymnasium Over three
hundred OF these are freshmen.
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Run Down by Englne.-Carl Seibert
was thrown from handcar at Howell
Station end killed when the car was
overtaken by two engines running ex-
ira. Four fellow workmen saved their
lives by leaping Seibert was % yeNrs
old. His kcme was at Alden.