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COLONEL PATE IS ON DECK AGAIN. Muskogee, I. T., October 23.. :R. C. Pate, tho man who built the track in the City of Mexico, and his legal representative, Thomas Morris, of St. Louis, closed a contract here yesterday for an eighty-acre tract of land one mile southwest of this city and have announced, that they will build a 6ne-mlle track and racing plant, to cost 0,000. About a year ago it "was reported that Messrs. Cella, Adler and Tilles, of St. Louis, were considering a proposition to establish a track here, and it is believed that they are backing Colonel " Pate. -