The Meeker Herald
125 years ago
– Sheep men in the northwestern part of Routt County are considerably stirred up over the recent theft of 3,000 head of sheep belonging to Griff Edwards. It seems that Jack McCarthy, Edwards’ foreman, is the guilty party. As foreman, he ordered one J.W. McLean, a herder, to drive the sheep to Rifle for shipment, from which point McCarthy shipped the sheep to Kansas City, sod them and pocketed…