The Greeley tribune., 1911-12-07
The Cahill Dry Goods Co.
Where The Nicer Goods Are Found Greeley, Colo

Meeker contending that if person
or thing was bad, the word very"
added no strength to the assertion.
On one occasion / ran out of copy
and so reported to MIR. Meeker, and
he, without looking up, handed me
over his shoulder something In
writing and l started in to put 1t In
type, and sailed along smoothly for
almost two lines, and there l stall
ed. l turned the screed sideways
and upside down, and it read as
we'll one way as the other, but OF
no avail, it was to me untranslat-
able. l got side glance at Mr.
Meeker and saw that he was shak-
ing with suppressed laughter, and
then he called me over and read for
me one of MIR. Greeley's letters to
him. A few weeks since l saw that
same letter in the historical rooms
of the Pioneers in your public Ii
brary and laughed again in remem-
brance of the old scene.
After he had frozen off his toes
while jack rabbit hunting during
the winter of that first year, Wlll
Hotchkiss used to come in ire
ouently on his crutches, while J. T.
Shattuck, H. T. West, Joseph Moss
DR.. Thompson and others were ire
ouent callers, to talk over matters
with the editor. General II. A
Cameron was also of this number
and I might say that our FoIt
Morgan G. A. R. post is named h
A. Cameron.
Before we had been working long
in the Tribune Office Mr.. Meeker
concluded that the setting OF type
by the week was not metropolitan
enough to suit the taste OF former
New York City editor. so he put Us
at work by the thousand ms. Ihe
scale wage at Denver was 6oc per
thousand and at Cheyenne soc, ana
we thought it but fair so long as
we lived half way between those
cities of western civilization we
should be paid 55c. On pay DAY
Saturday night after this innovation
was introduced. we $40 printers got
into the old gentleman twenty OF
more plunks, and l may say tha'
MIR. Meeker was rapidly and enect-
ually weaned from metropolitan
ways, especially in the matter o.
type setting, and sorrowfuliy Went
back to the old order Of things. .,
That winter was a cold one ana !
II rather shocked Mr.. Meeker to
realize that the Colorado clima'e
was not best adapted to the culture
of bananas, and when the recoras
from the thermometer morning al
ter morning read ten, fifteen anu
twenty degrees below zero, he hoL-
ed in the paper that as the 'heI
mometers did not agree 1t was use
less to make note OF fnaccuracies,
and intimated that Fahrenheit hag
introduced a system underlaid an"
rotten with lies.
After Mr.. Meeker's appointmeht
to the Indian agency over on Whl,o
river, after my return to Coiorauo
in 1875, he asked me to go oNet
there with him as an employe ol
the government, but for some reh-
son / was not able to accept his or
fer. II had done so. no doup'
would have had the same rate a5
several Of my old friends who iaiN
down their lives there with MI
Meeker. =,
At the time of the first issue o,
the Tribune, all OF the papers
northern Colorado published ou's,So
OF Denver could be counted on 'no
fingers Of one hand. and we're a.
follows: The Golden Iranse',pTi
the Georgetown Courier. the Gent
city Register and the Boulder New,
and the editors OF these 1ournax
we're frequent callers. some"na.
tedious journey. for there were
railroads TO travel over until ,us,
-eoched Denver. Cant. La,np
was then the owner and punnSn,
OF the Pueblo Chieftain. and u ! ''