Meeker Herald ~ 125 years ago
Burnham Smith had the misfortune to have the fingers of his left hand mashed Thursday at the Cross-Bar-Z ranch at the mouth of North Elk Creek. The little fellow was working around the water wheel which is used to run the grindstone and other machinery and in some manner got his fingers caught between a set of cog wheels and the flesh was badly mangled. Al Ellison brought the…