Murray during his younger days in Tishomingo.
Murray’s next stop was Corsicana, where he started a newspaper and ran for the state senate. Neither effort was successful. Not a man to be denied, he moved to Fort Worth where he read the law, passed the bar exam, and opened a practice. In 1898, the twenty-nine-year-old lawyer moved to Tishomingo, Indian Territory. The town was the capital of the Chickasaw Nation, and Murray soon caught the attention of the Chickasaw governor, Douglas H. Johnson, who made Murray the tribe’s legal advisor.