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Show ELI yjTIOX JUDGES At the regular meciuig of the Myton Town board Tuesday night George E. Stewart, W. E. Wheeler and R. E. Miller were appointed judges of Town election November S. The chairman of the board also named Friday evening, "October 21, as the date and the My.jr Commer-cial Commer-cial club rooms as the place for holding mass meeting to nominato candidates for Peoples party ticket. If there is no other ticket put in the field this convention or mass meeting meet-ing will be equivalent io an election. UXITED STATES FLAG RAISED AT THE SPOT WHERE MEEKER, WAS MASSACRED BY INDIANS The Meeker Herald reports that a party composed of Henry Hay, Lem Miller, Robert Mathes, E. A. Wilson, and L. E. Chapin, autoed from Meeker Meek-er to the sito of the White River Indian agency, in Powell park, and raised a United States flag on the pole erected early in the summer at the spot whe-jLbo Meeker massacre occurred. The site of the agency buildings is about a mile west of the Cross L ranch home. Robert Watkins, the present owner of the Cross L estate, joined the party and took part in the flag raising. The agency farm vns taken up by one George Warner, well known to the few remaining old timers. It is now a part of the Cross L ranch. It as no trouble for Henry Hay to locate the site of thr ngency buildings, build-ings, as he was in tne White river country .shortly after the Meeker massacre. Even now the old well and the remains of a cellar are visible, visi-ble, and the site of tho garden is attested at-tested by asparagus and horse radish beds. '. Lern Miller, custodian at the Rio Blanco County Commercial club, has taken the initiative in thus marking a spot that should be of historic interest in-terest to all.. It Is planned that at no dstant date more permanent markers will be placed in position. |