He conducted that office for one year, then the office was moved to Hemingford, the county seat, and after four years, in 1894, he formed the law firm of Tuttle & Tash. which continued there until 1900, when the firm moved its offices to Alliance. In 1895 he was appointed receiver of the Bank of Hemingford and settled its affairs. While living at Hemingford he served on the school board and city council. In

1901 he engaged in the clerical work for the contractors rebuilding the Union Pacific : in

1902 was associate editor of the Alliance 'rimes; in 1903 was appointed postmaster of Alliance, serving in that capacity for twelve years, and in 1916, was elected county judge, re-elected in 1918 without opposition, and is thus serving the people of his county at this time.

The public service of Ira E. Tash has always been of the best. Box Butte county has cause for congratulation in the fact that Mr. Tash became a citizen of the county at a very early date and has been continually one of the bearers of the county's escutcheon through all the years. Never has he faltered, and but for him the record of the county achievements, and of its people would be incomplete. His experiences, his memory, his ability to state the occurrences with precision, and withal his splendid fund of good humor, have made the Box Butte County History a splendid narrative. -- Editor-in-Chief.

DEUEL COUNTY

ORGANIZATION OF DEUEL COUNTY

Deuel county, one of the smallest in the state and the most southeasterly county in the Panhandle of Nebraska, lies in the most southerly tier of counties and in the third east from the western boundary of Nebraska. At the present time it is bounded on the north by Garden county, on the east by Keith county, on the south by Colorado and on the west by Cheyenne county.