The Meeker Herald
125 years ago
– Ed Eakins arrived in town at 4:30 yesterday morning (having left Rifle at 9:30 Thursday evening) brining the news of the killing of Johnny Gebhardt, which occurred about an hour before on the street near the Winchester hotel. Full particulars of the deplorable affair have not yet reached this office, but it seems that the tragedy was the outcome of ill-feeling between the victim and his slayer—a party…
