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.ORDER AND
NOTICE OF PRIMARY ELECTION
To Be Held on
TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1920.
In the Office of the United States
Commissioner at Nenana, Alaska,
Fourth Judicial Division.
Now, on this day, pursuant to
Chapter 39, Session Laws of Alaska,
approved May 3, 1919, entitled, “An
Act to provide for the holding of
.f primary elections in the Territory
«f Alaska, to fix the time and man
■er of holding the same, to prescribe
the qualifications of candidates to
be nominated at such elections, and
*o designate the manner of filing
and authenticating their candidacy,
and for other purposes,” and in
conformity therewith,
It is hereby ordered that for the
purpose of the primary election to
be held on April 27, 1920, all of
the territory in the recording dis
trict known as Nenana Recording
District, outside of incorporated
towns, is hereby divided into voting
precincts, in each of which a polling
place is hereby specified.
Said voting precincts are describ
ed and bounded as follows:
The Nenana Voting Precinct, em
bracing all that portion of the Ne
nana Recording Precinct lying North
of an east and west line drawn
through Mile 389 on the Govern
ment Railway.
Polling Place: Fire Hall in Town
of^Nenana.
The Canyon Voting Precinct, em- j
bracing all that portion of the Ne
nana Recording Precinct lying South
of an east and west line drawn
through Mile 389 on the Govern
ment Railway.
Polling Place: Alaskan Engineer
ing Commission store at Healy.
Notice is hereby given that a pri
mary election will be held on Tues
day, April 27, 1920, for the pur
pose of nominating candidates of
the various political parties in Alas
ka for the following offices, to-wit:
A Delegate to the House of Rep
resentatives from the Territory of
Alaska;
An. Attorney General for the Ter
ritory of Alaska;
One member of the Senate of the
Territory of Alaska;
Four members of the House of
Representatives of the Territory of
Alaska;
Two Road Commissioners for Road
District No. Four;
For electing (as provided by Chap
ter 38, Session Laws 1917):
One National Committeeman of
each political party for the Terri
tory of Alaska;
Delegates and Alternates to the
National Convention of each politi
cal party for the Territory of Alas
ka.
The said election will be held in
the voting precincts above named
and at the polling places therein
specified. The said polling places
will be open between the hours of
eight o’clock a. m. and seven o’clock
p. m. of said day.
Dated at Nenana, Alaska, March
15, 1920.
(Seal) R. S. MCDONALD,
U. S. Commissioner for the Nenana
Recording District, Fourth Divi
sion, Territory of Alaska.
Nenana, the Gateway to McKinley
National Park.
IHtUUUnt N. VAIL
As president of the American
Telephone & Telegraph company,
Theodore Newton Vail was the head
of the largest telephone system in
the world. He was not only its
nominal head, but he was from the
first the genius that promoted the
popular use of the telephone, the
first man to establish long-distance
communication by telephone, and,
when past seventy years of age, he
was still the initiative head of a
system that numbered nine million
telephone subscribers and represent
ed an investment of a billion and
a half dollars.
Mr. Vail was 31 . years old when
Alexander Graham Bell invented the
telephone, and, notwithstanding his
age, he was filling the responsible
post of general superintendent of
the railway mail service. Still ear
lier, however, he had been a tele
graph operator and, interested in
the possibilities of electrical com
munication, he had visions that
Bell’s “toy” would some day be a
great factor in American life. Bell
and his associates had equal faith
in Mr. Vail's organizing genius, for
he had already made a name for
himself as an organizer in the pro
motion of the railway mail service,
and he was easily induced to resign
his government post to become gen
eral manager, in 1878, of the first
American Bell Telephone company.
Mr. Vail was known as “the big
gest telephone man in the world,”
not only in tribute to his genius for
both mechanical and financial or
ganization, but from-the fact that
he was personally a man of re
markable physique. He was six
feet two inches tall, and weighed
about 280 pounds. With this great
physique he had an infinite capaci
ty for hard work, and a genial dis
position.
He Was born in Carroll county,
Ohio, July 16, 1845, of Quaker an
centry. His father, Davis Vail,
removed from Ohio to Morristown,
N. J., when the son was four years
old, and became associated with a
brother, Stephen Vail, who had
Charles E. Herron
Candidate for
NATIONAL
COMMITTEEMAN
Solicits the Support of
INTERIOR ALASKA
REPUBLICANS
IN THE
April Primary Election
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A Vote for Herron means a
Vote for Alaska Progress
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founded the Speedwell Iron works,
I near Morristown, where they built
| much of the machinery for the first
transatlantic steamship. Theodore
Vail was educated at the old Acade
my at Morristown, and for a time
studied medicine, but becoming in
terested in the telegraph, he learned
to operate the key and went West
in 1868 as an operator for the Un
ion Pacific railroad at Pine Bluffs,
Wyoming. Through the friendship
of General Grenvills M. Dodge,
chief engineer of the Union Pacific.
Vail, in the next year, was appoint
ed a clerk in the railway mail serv
ice, and here his ability to sys
tematize and organize was soon felt.
It was just after he had been pro
moted to the general superintend
ency of the railway mail service
that he accepted the position of
general manager of the American
Bell Telephone company.
In 1885 he resigned from the
original company and became the
first president of the newly-formed
American Telephone & Telegraph
company, which at first made a spe
cialty of only long-distance com
munication, but which, in 1900. ac
quired the property of the American
Bell Telephone company and also
negotiated combinations with the
principal competing telephone com
panies throughout the country, so
that the whole service came largely
under a single central administra
tion.
In the meantime, in 1890, Mr.
Vail retired from the telephone busi
ness for many years. He purchased
a large farm at Lyndonvillc, Vt..
and interested himself in agricul
ture. In 181)8 he made a trip to
South American, and, with his cus
tomary foresight, he saw the possi
bilities of the Argentine Republic.
He obtained from the government
a concession near Cordoba, built an
electric power Elation there, pur
chased a hore-car line in Buenos
Aires, converted it into a trolley
line, formed a company and equip
ped it with the best cars from the
United States, bought out all com
peting lines and (rave the city a
complete modern sendee. The com
pany was composed largely of Brit
ish capitalists, and for some time
Mr. Vail had his headquarters in
London. When he retired from these
activities in 1904, he returned to
Vermont, but three years later ho
was again called upon to enter the
telephone field as president of the
American Telephone & Telegraph
company, of which he had been the
first president.
One of the most ambitious pro
jects which he then planned was a
merger of the Western Union Tele
graph company with the telephone
company, and in 1910, when the
telephone interests succeeded in se
curing the controlling power in the
Western Union, Mr. Vail became
president of both these great cor
porations. He resigned as president
of the Western Union, however,
when, on April 15, 1914, the tele
phone company disposed of its in
terests in the Western Union be
cause of threatened action by the
Government against the combination
of these competing utilities.
While others have marveled at
the perfection of the great tele
phone system, that now connects
more than 70,000 places in the
United States, Mr. Vail always be
lieved in the greater possibilities
ahead. He believed it would be only
a short time until New York would
be able to carry on wireless tele
phone conversation with European
points almost as easily as it may
communicate with San Francisco by
land lines today.
Mr. Vail played as hard as he
worked. He was fond of good
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music, books and pictures, and the
outdoor life. He had one of the I
finest libraries in the state of Ver-'
mont. The house on his 3,500-acre;
farm at Lyndonville, although beau-i
tiful, was a home rather than ;i '
palace. In it he had built a 840,000
pipe-organ, and once every year he
made the practice of bringing up *
from New York some of the finest i
musicians to give a concert, to which !
he invited the country people fo;
miles around. He also established
a farm school, hoping to encourage
Vermont boys to take up scientific
agriculture and remain in the coun
try. He believed that New England
was facing a great renaissance.
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Nenana, the Gateway to McKinley
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[ Miners and Prospectors! |
] NOTICE Of CHJIN6E OF RECORDING PRECINCTS [
| According to a recently issued Court Order by |
| Judge Chas. E. Bunnell, the Nenana Mining and Re- f
| cording District has been enlarged to take in the Bon- |
| nifield and Totatlanika Districts. |
| Miners and Prospectors of these districts will be §
| enabled by this change to do their recording and §
| transact other business at Nenana, which is within |
| easy reach of their mining activities. I
1 NENANA COMMERCIAL CLUB. I
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| J. R. Bowen, President. R. J. Diven, Secretary. §
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