The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-08-04

Cockrum. Ookland City Ind; treas
urer. J. Irwin Steele. Ashland. Pa.
poet laureate w. z. Papor. Papor
Lake Fla; flag custodian. c. F. Leh
man. Halietsville. Texas; editor and
publisher official paper. B. b. Her
bert, Chicago. II was also voted to
hold the next meeting of the asso
citation al indianapolis.
AS said last week feel my utter
inability to give any adequate idea
OF the splendid hospitality we enjoy
ed at Guthrie or of the charms Of that
city. and a special mark was when,
in leaving. we found our cars filed
with luscious fruit Of all varieties.
In closing this chapter of our
trip few statistics may not be out
of place Guthrie Is beautifully 10
Gated on gentle plateaus rising on
both sides Of Cottonwood river and |
its altitude is 932 feet. Il has $50
business houses: IS wholesale firms; /
electric cars: electric lights. telephone |
and water plants; public schools
and a business college; 1s churches,
.cotton-seed oil mill; ice plant cot
ton gins: cotton congresses: car
riage and wagon works; -four mills;
creamery and beer depots; paid fire
department. etc. etc
In 1902 the shipments comprised
s 500 bales cotton; 35 cars cotton
seed oil; 1856 cars meal; $4,000 bushels
of wheat: 100 cars cattle; 1O9 cars
hogs. and in the past two years the
shipments haze very largely IN
creased.
It was with feelings of deep regret
at leaving so many new friends and
such charming city thai the special
editorial train drew out Of Guthrie,
in two sections. on the evening of Fri
day, June 9th for trip through the
ltelritory. The first step was Enid
which is another one of the marvels
of that wonderful couatry only six
years old il claims a population of
1900 or more and has all the modern
| Improvements. Here, as in Guthrie
and al through the West the Elks
are very strong and we were most de.
I lightfully entertained at their hall
after the usual speechmaHng They
are great orators. those men in okla.
homa and Indian Territory and it
was fortunate that in State Senator
Hon. John Dy'nond of New Orleans.
the newly elected president Of the
association, we had a man who could
respond IN the most graceful manner
to all the addresses fired at us.
Besidens orators the chief crop of
/ Oklahoma seems to be prospective
United States senator's Every man
seems TO have his ear to the ground.
/ can say. however, that | met one
future senator for sure for If the new
state is Republican Judge Crimes of
Guthrie is so well-ftted for the office
that he will win hands down while
it the legislature is Democratic one of
the men to capture the two great
prizes will be Col HOFFMAN Just
where The colonel lives and what is
his occupation. had difficulty in
finding out as he has been the found
er of four towns president of the bar
and of the press association
We left Enid at midnight and
reached Snyder in time for late
breakfast forgetting, for the moment.
that the town had been swept away
by the terrible cyclone of four weeks
before We We're poated out that
section of The town that had been
swept out of existence and we were
told that after the storm was over the
prairie was as clear and free from de
bris as when we saw L.. such was the
terrific FORE of the wind As there
was no chance for a meal till we
reached Lawton at noon we took an
extra hitch in our belts and possess
ed our souls or stomaehs in pa
tience And just here a word as to
the Frisco r r. which took us from
Enid 10 Lawton There had been
very heavy and almost unprecedent
I ed rains for weeks previous to ON
coming to the territory and the tracks
We're not only new but almost under
mined Our train was in two sec
tons nine heavy cars to the section
Yet We had no mshap and only the
delay consequent TO careful running
The Frisco people deserve the great
est credit for the way they handle,
our special and the same is true o
the Rock Island which took us from
l.awton to Oklahoma City
have referred 20 our late break
fast but our feelings were nothing
compared with those of the Lawtor
people II Is no small job to feed si'
or seven hundred hungry people an'
We were expected at seven so at fou
o'clock horsemen went througl
the town waking mp The inhabitants
tha, an might be ready foy us. Whei
we did arrive. at noon. we found tn
same open-house reception as a
p, Guthrie and did justice 20 Il all NJ
host happened to be the chief of tn
fire department and he is not only
splendid fire fighter but a royal goo