Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-11-13
TOLD OF BUCK KheoHE.
His Jumping Match with n Texas
Woman I'm War Times.

Woman I'm war Times.
There are men in every quarter OF
the union who will regret to hear of the
recent death of Judge Constantine b.
Kilgore at Ardmore, /. T. For eight
years Buck" Kilgore was notable
man in Washington. In person he was
typical Texan. Above six feet tall,
above 16 stone in weight, above the
average congressman in ability, above
the average man in sincerity, straight as
an Indian and strong as an OK, Buck"
| kilgore was n marked man where
ever he appeared. 1t was the kicking
down of the door leading from the leg
islative chamber to the house lobby that
gave him notoriety. 1t was character
istic of the man. He wanted to go into
the lobby: the messenger shut the door
in his face. He knew he had n right to
60 into the lobby without asking the
consent of Tom Reed or any other man.
He raised his foot, clothed in an enor-
nous cowhide boot, and kicked the door
down and went his way. The notoriety
attached to him on account of the act
was always distasteful to him.
Except Dick Bland and Amos Cum
nlings, there was no more democratic
looking man in congress. The boys
on the avenue called him "Bucll," and
after he kicked the door down every
CANINE in Washington was ambitious
to shine his boots. Many of them
boasted of the honor who drew on their
i1naginations, as George IV.-did when
he claimed to have bore q conspicuous
part in the battle of Waterloo. Kill
gore did not have his boots shined every
day. When he first landed he took
rooms on C street, not far from the cap
itol. After breakfast he went out for
n stroll. A colored boy proposed a
shine. What's your nnme?" asked
'Buck." George Washington" re-
piled the boy. ITS an honor l did
not expect" reioined Kilgore;' you
can pitch right in" During the whole
session Buck" would walk half a
dozen squares to give that boy the job
OF shining his boots. -
During the war he was ordered home
to assist in gathering up some desert
ers. One evening about dusk he was out
in the country, in quest of deserter who
had been off the layout" for year.
He was very hungry. and very weary.
He called at n house by the roadside,
and there he found a woman just TAX
ing from the spit q nicely ,broiled
chicken. The SAVIOR of the fowl made
him ravenous. He had a Mexican dol
lar in his pocket, which he had carried
for years, and to which heiwas rpuch
attached, but he was bound to have that
chicken, and he pulled outlthe dollar
and proposed q trade-the coin for the
fowl. The lady said the chicken was
for q sick friend. and that she could not
sell it.
'Bu;." she continued, I'll iupp y[ru
for it,
what do you mean ?" said Buck
81 mean that we will see which can
jump furthest from this. doorsill out
into the yard, and the one of us that
beats shall have both chicken and dol
lar" .
"All right; that suits me exactly
said "Buck." The dollar was placed OF
the dish beside the chicken. and his CUR
was leaned against the walfbytte door
and Buck" slung his arms and made
a tremendous leap of over ~ feet. He
recovered with difficulty. and when he
turned to the door. there-was the lady
with his cooked gun in her hands, will
the butt against her shoulder and finger
on the trigger. ,.,.s-, ~
Now, you just flirt the gravel dowr
that road, young man. or Flls make
buzzard's food of You before fire car
singe gnat." she ordered.
There was shoot in her eyes, ant
"bucll and ball" in the giin:, So Buck
"hirted the gravel" his bosom swoller