The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-07-24
LEAGUE
Of Eastern Newspaper Men
Comes Tom :rTCW-. Club
Reception.

The grea, eastern newspaper league
composed of representatives Of the
New York Sun, Philadelphia Times,
Boston Journal Baltimore Herald
will arrive in Guthrie in their private
car Ralph King" at an early hour to
morrow tand remain all day. The
league was organized for the purpose
of inquiring into industrial and com
mercial conditions OF the grea. west,
to get the truth and nothing but the
truth; to write of existing conditions
as they are; to print for the eastern
reading public the facts about the
west with no personal booming of
private citizens or eXtravegant lauda
lion of private interests.
They did not originally contem-
plate visit TO Oklahoma, but certain
facts were presented for their consid
Grafton by the railroads centering in
Chicago ald operating oklahoma lines,
which induced the general m nager Of
the league DR.. c Z. King, a Boston
journalist, to make run into Okla
homa, and now they are clad they
came. Newspaper men of experience
are not much given to "jollying" and
when these trained and observant
quill drivers of the Atlantic seaboard
state that they have been astounded
by what they have seen in Oklahoma, {,
they exactly verse thei. sincere i'm
pressions. They have seen with their
own eyes. that Oklahoma is not a
country of tougts, rustlers and hold
a l.. Ill
in all that goes TO make up progress
sive, aggressive and law-abiding COM
munity Oklahoma need not take a
back seat in the audience, and they
have already stated these facts and
will state them again many times in
their story of Journey in Oklaho-
ma" to be published in the newspap-
ers they REPRESENT.
Guthrie proposes to receive the
league with open arms tomorrow, and
10 show them that, no matter how
warm their welcome in other parts of
the territory may have been, Guthrie
will show them few kinks they have
not run across heretofore.
At 1890 o'clock tomorrow morning &
there will be public reception ten
dered the league in the opera house,
under the auspices of the Guthrie club.
There are both literary and CONNER
cial features in connection with the
visit of the league, and, es the matter
interests the whole public, it has been
decided that the proposition the Great
Eastern Newspaper League may have
20 make for q specific write-up of Guth-
rie, its resources and possibilities. and
what 1t has to offer for the substap tial
consideration of Eastern capitalists,
home seekers and business men, shall
be discussed publicly.
After the reception proper the Guth-
rie club will take up the commercial
features O.. the visit with the league,
and probably arrange for specific rep
resentation of Guthrie's interests in
connection with the general write-up
to be prepared by the journalists of
the league. President o. r. Fegan of
the Guthrie club, Gov. Barnes and
other officials of the executive depart
ment of the territory have signited
their intention to take part in the re-
ception at the opera house, and no
doubt there will be large and enthu-
siastic attendance Of representative
citizens of Oklahoma's metropolis pres
ent.
Immediately after the reception the
sub committee of the Guthrie club
will meet the League.