State Seal To Visit Territorial Capital For Centennial Celebration

Friday, May 11th 2007, 8:05 pm

By: News On 6

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- A resolution calling for the state seal to be taken to Guthrie as part of the state's centennial celebration was approved, but not without some questioning and a bit of a history lesson.

Edmond Republican Todd Lamb asked Enid Republican Patrick Anderson to pledge that the seal would be returned to Oklahoma City after its stay in his district.

According to a historian, the seal was concealed in a bundle of laundry and smuggled out of the territorial capital in Guthrie in 1910 as part of a plot to make Oklahoma City the capital.

Anderson responded that the seal would be returned because the people of Guthrie wouldn't take something that didn't rightfully belong to them.