He served for six terms or a total of twelve years, and then declined to be a candidate for re-election. In February, nineteen nine, Justin Wilhermsdcrfer was appointed a special judge, and in nineteen twent\'-one he returned to the office by election. In October, nineteen sixteen, and again in June, nineteen nineteen. E. F. Pontius had the service of special judg'e in a number of cases. Judge Wilhermsdorfer (called "Dorfer" by his friends) now occupies the office.

County Clerks

The county clerk's office has held some remarkable characters, high in the esteem of the northwest, and efficient to an extraordinary degree. First, there was Ed. Satterlee, by appointment of the governor. The first election made Charles C. Jamieson the county clerk. Jamieson was one of the strongest characters in the cow country, and while he

was made to feel the lash of Roosevelt's land inquisition, even that powerful force did not shake the confidence of his friends. Charles Jamieson was too large a man for the smallminded special agents of the United States land department to injure. He remains interested in western Nebraska to a very large extent, although he now resides in Denver.

Conrad Lindeman followed as county clerk and served two terms efficiently as is shown by the record. M. J. Blewett followed with three terms of excellent service. Win. A. J. Raum, recently killed near Glen by the fall of a horse he was riding, served two terms following nineteen hundred.

Then came the long and wonderfully efficient record of E. F. Pontius. Six terms, or a total of twelve years, he held the dual office of county clerk and clerk of the district court. Cyrus O. Wertz served one term following and his record was up to the high standard of excellence, and this being' the period of the great world war, extra heavy duties were involved.