CAMPAIGN: Reunion in Fargo

Two Texans who had not seen each other for 34 years met last week in the aisle of a Pullman at Fargo, N. Dak. "Hello, Bill," said Farmer George Thomas Murray of Berthold. "Hello, George," said his brother, Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray of Oklahoma. Vith true Texan restraint, the reunited kinsmen briskly shook hands and sat down to talk politics.

In 1881 Brothers Bill and George ran away from their Toadsuck home. A third brother, now dead, went along. In 1895 they started a newspaper in the back room of...

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