The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-05-05

election to fill the vacancy in the office of delegate from Alaska. There was also received a copy of the new election laws. which provide for the existing contingency. Both writ and law are as follows:
 Juneau, Alaska, April 2S. 1919.
 Clerk of Court, Fairbanks.
 have today issued following writ of election to fill vacancy in office delegate from Alaska: ITO whom concerned: Whereas a vacancy exists in the office of Delegate from Alaska in the house of representatives of the United States, said vacancy hay ing been caused by the death on the fifteenth of April. nineteen nineteen. of the Honorable Sharles Sulzer. dele gate frsm Alaska in the house of of the United States.
 "Now, therefore. 1. Thomas Riggs. IT,, governor of the Territory of Al aska under and by virtue of the au- thority conferred upon me by Act of the Legislature of the Territory of Alaska entitled An Act providing for 6 special election to fill the vacancy in the office of delegate from Alas. ka in the house of representatives and declaring an emergency Approv. ed on April twenty-eight. nineteen nineteen, do hereby order that an be held in the Territory of Alaska on Tuesday the 3rd day of June, nineteen nineteen. for the pur. pose of electing delegate from AL aska in the house of representatives of the United States to fill the va. cancy caused As aforesaid. And the clerks of the United States district courts of the several judicial divi- sions of the territory are hereby di- rected to forthwith cause notice of this writ to be given to the common council of each incorporated town in their respective divisions and to each United States commissioner therein by the most rapid means of communi- cation by telegraph, telephone or And the common council of each incorporated town in the Territory of Alaska is hereby direct ed to forthwith give notice of the hereby called by posting written or printed notices thereof in three public places in each precinct in said town, specifying the time, place and purpose of such election and in towns where there is a news. paper of general circulation publish ed to cause a copy of such notice of election to be published at least once in such newspaper prior to the date of election. And the common of each incorporated town is further directed to forthwith appoint three judges of election and two clerks and to notify said judges and clerks of their ajjointment. Not more than two judges and one clerk shall belong to the same political party. And the United States com. missioner in each recording district is hereby directed to forthwith give notice of the election hereby called by posting written or printed notices thereof specifying the time, place ana purpose of the election which notices shall be posted as follows: One at the office of the commissioner ot said recording district and one in each of the voting precincts in said recording district, one of which shall be the polling place in the precinct. And the United States commissioner in each recording district is further directed to forthwith appoint three judges of election for each voting precinct in said recording district not more than two of whom shall be of the same political party. The election precincts in and outside of incorpor.
 ated towns shall be the same as those established for the last previ- ous general election. The election
 when held shall be governed by the laws of congress regulating general elections in the territory of Alaska. as set forth in chapter two. title
 eleven of the Compiled Laws of Al. aska. The qualifications of voters
 at the special election shall be the
 same as those prescribed by section three ninsty-four. chapter two, title eleven of the Compiled Laws of Al
 aska as modified by chapter one of
 the Session Laws of Alaska, nineteen
 thirteen, entitled An Act to extend
 the elective franchise to women in
 the Territory of Alaska approved