
The Meeker Herald — 125 years ago
• Joe Rooney, the popular clerk at the Meeker hotel, is now under sheriff.
• The Utes have arrived in the lower country on their annual deer-killing expedition. Isn’t it about time the state authorities were taking these hide hunting Indians in-hand?
• Eight years ago yesterday Colorow’s band of Utes refused to recognize civil authority, and the result was a “war.” Since then but four or five…

