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Show I Veteran Kansas Editor Dead. Wlchltn, Knns. Colonel M. M. Mur-dock, Mur-dock, editor and owner of tho Wichita Uaglo and postmaster of Wichita, "led at 12:G0 o'clock Wednesday morning. Colonel Murdnck was 70 years of ago and wns undoubtedly tho best known man In Kansas. Ho was born In Virginia, Vir-ginia, but canto to Kansas beforo tho Civil war. Ucforo coming to Wichita in 1871, he owned and edited a paper nt DnrlinRnmo. Ilo stuck to Wichita during its dark days, whon property values depreciated to nothing, and this ono fact mado him tho foremost citizen of tho southwest. ', |