The Judiciary
During the early period which our historical reminiscences extend, such a thing as a “Judiciary” or any necessity for law, was unheard of and unknown in the county. No county was ever settled by a better set of boys, and none submitted to the hardships . of a new country one hundred miles from civilization with better grace, and with less complaint than those who first opened up Meeker County, and redeemed her soil from savage rule. No law was required, the intelligence of the settler:, their quietness and industry, and the necessity which every man was under, to attend…