Later the northern portion of Deuel was cut from Deuel and became Garden county, greatly reducing the size of Deuel county. In January, 1889, Deuel county was organized. The first meeting of the county board is recorded on January 21, 1889, with the following officers : George P. Smith, judge ; Ed. Herrington, clerk ; W. H. Sigler, treasurer, and B. G. Hoover, H. G. Gumaer and Willis Lee, commissioners. The next day, January 22, the following officers qualified : J. L. Robson, treasurer, Reuben Lisco, sheriff, and Dr. W. H. Babcock, coroner. On February 2, F. W. Starks qualified as superintendent of schools.

The first act of the commissioners was to elect B. G. Hoover chairman, and the second ad was by two votes fur Chappell and one for Froid, to declare Chappell the temporary county -rat. Some official bonds were approved and the clerk instructed to ask for bids for supplies. Thus ended the first day of Deuel county's official life.

The Chappell Register was designated the official paper on January 26, and the county attorney's salary was fixed at five hundred dollars. On this day a brand committee was created by the board of commissioners who named G. E. Thompson and John Robinson its first members.

On January 15, 1889, a county seat election was declared to have made no choice. The county then contained eleven precincts as follows: Alkali, Lisco, Lost Creek, Blue Creek, Park, Sughrue. Rush Creek, Green, Chappell, Swan and Big Springs.

In their order road districts one to eleven were created of the same name and size as the precincts. The first bills allowed by the commissioners were for election services, viz : C. G. Jones, A. T. Stewart, J. H. Roudebush, Frank Isenberger, Floyd Jones, E. E. Catron, Simon Hopper, R. D.