The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-18
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

There are ten personal ''I'' s in the veto
message.
It is about time for the railroads to pull
| of their coats.
Politics in Oklahoma is getting to be
''some pumkins."
There seems to be about as good crop
OF combines as OF vetoes.
Nobody has had time TO think of the in
sane asylum and the Normal school
1t is only about sixty days now until the
whole legislature will beg to be excused
Speaking against time" is all very fun
ny when you don't think of the 81 per day.
This is the day that the Republicans of
Oklahoma choose their delegate to con
gress.
Clark's idea of spanking the legislature
is good one. He ought TO have il copy
righted.
Governor Steele's motto is, do Right -
That's why Oklahoma City kicks on get
ting left.
Judge Foster apprehends an attack from
the Indians, and Foster IS not from the far
east, either.
A contest ceases to be civilized when
mud-slinging and personal affairs Is taken
advantage Of
10 Post hasn't red head for nothing
Some of these days he will be in Washing
ton representing Oklahoma
Beaver is hunting Cor a glass powerful
enough to see the possibility of what pub
lie institution il is going 10 get.
With the legislature boarding up the
windows, the chance for light on the cap
ital location is more dismal than ever.
Before the legislature proceeds any far
Their with the capital question, 1t better
pass law prohibiting the carrying OF fire
arms.
If Governor Steele should ever think this
world dreary and monotonous, he can take
down the files of the Oklahoma City papers
and peruse them.
Mayor Gault, of Oklahoma City, is the
pOssessor of the first deed issued to a town
lot in Oklahoma City, and that it is also
the first deed issued TO town lot IN Okla
homa territory.
The church trial in the case of Rev
Hambree, at Norman, TO be tried yesterday
has been postponed until November 18th
on account OF the absence OF a material
witness for Mr.. Hambree.
The city marshal of Oklahoma City ar
rested some thirty saloon keepers yester-
day for violation of the city ordinance re
garding the selling of liquor. Twelve of
them paid fine of $25 each and will be al
lowed to continue selling for one month as
far as the city authorities are concerned.
The others waived examination and had
their trials continued.
Some of the spiciest things about the
veto are found in the Kansas papers. They
are all compilations. Some condemn the
governor, and some praise him. Sol Mil
Ter, who Is a strong partisan, says: The
governor of Oklahoma has very properly
vetoed the bill locating the capital at Ok
lahOma City. For beginning, combl-
nation of Democrats and Alliance men
who are running the legislature of that
new territory, are about the most villain
Gus gang that ever got elected TO office"
While enthusing at Guthrie on Monday
night, ID. K. Delaney, station agent at that
point, met with a serious accident Some
one stood in front of Reeves saloon and
fired a revolver on the ground. The ball
struck a stone and CHANGING OFT struck De
laney, who stood on the opposite side of
the street in the eye. 1t was thought for
some time that he would lose his eye, but
he is much better and the danger is almost
passed.
Kansas City Star: J. w. Patterson, a
halfbreed Cherokee Indian, p years of age,
but a giant in strength and build, was at
the Union depot last evening on the way
to Oklahoma City, where he has property.
Patterson is seven feet and four inches
tall and is we'll developed. He was born
on a farm near Bentonville, Ark, where
his parents still live His mother is a full
blood Cherokee while his father is
Frenchman, who, a trader thirty years ago,
found livelihood among these Indians.
He soon after visited Arkansas and bought
several hundred acres of land, mostly tim
ber and there he has lived and raised
family of three sons, all of them giants in
stature and build. The visitor to the city
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the family. He weighs $50 pounds, not a
pound of his flesh being superfluous.
Speaking to a reporter for the Star on the
subject of his own height and giants
of more or less historical renOwn, Mr..
Patterson said: "Why myself and
brothers should have grown so tall
am sure l do not know. You might
naturally suppose that my parents are OF
more than ordinary stature, but IL you did
you would be greatly mistaken. Ny father
is five feet and ten inches tall. while my
mother is five feet eight and One-half inches
in height. My sire is muscular and raw
boned, while mother is inclined to be corp
ulent. Each OF my brothers is seven feet
in height and live at the homestead in Ar
kansas At "a years of age | was six feet
tall All of a sudden | begun TO grow and
before my development ceased | was con
worried by it. was never sick
a day in my life and am heir to no disease
that is likely to cut short the number of
my years. l think they will be four score
and ten and probably more. / have no bad
habits, more than that ! smoke almost in.
cessantly and pride myself on being judge
of good cigars and tobacco" Continuing
on the subject of giants in history Mr. Pat
terson said: "Og, king Of Bashen, was
seven feet tall but not as good a man,
as | am The porter of
James / of England. stood six feet
and eight inches. and was fine
specimen Of human Development The
giants of the regiment and body guard of
King William of Germany, predecessor Of
Frederick the Great, as body were fine
lot of men, but not one OF them was as tall
as / am The Chinese tell of giants among
them 5000 years ago, eleven feet in height,
but | do not believe it. Any one who has
read much about the great things OF that
country readily understands how the his
tOrians delighted in eXaggeratIOns The
to that country in this age
will bear testimony Of the unreliability OF
the average Chinese writer. The bones of
giants measuring ten feet in length are
said by an officer of the English army 10
have been discovered on the west coast Of
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