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Alleges Famous Soa
As An Enemy Of
They Really ^
_ !
Days of Soapy Smith, noted
gambler and desperado, when he
ruled Skagway’s lawless element
during the gold stampede of Daw
son days( were recalled in Anch_
orage recently by Will Clayson,
resident of Skagway in 1897 and
a clothjng merchant in Anchor
age for eight years prior to 1934.
Mr. Clayson will return south,
ward after spending a week in
Anchorage on business. He now
makes his home in Portland.
Soapy Smith had the usual trait
of returning to a man 50 per cent
of what the latter lost in a gam.
bling game, if the man protested
loud enough, which js at least
more than the modern crook will
do, Mr. Clayson recalled. He
said he knew Soapy during the \
height of his reign.
‘Helped’ Victims
Soapy posed as a law_abiding
j citizen endeavoring to run the
many gambling joints, whjch he
j secretly controlled, out of town.
If a man were fleeced of his earn
I ings and setuip a loud protest,1
some kind stranger would take
him to Soapy, who righted all
wrongs and looked protectively
after the welfare of innocent
strangers.
“Well, my good man, what can
I do for you?” would be his cor_
dial greeting to the protestor. On
hearing the tale of woe he would
take the man to the place where
J he lost the money, make a great
[show of abusing the gamekeeper,
' and the incident would close wjth
Uhe latter grudgingly giving back
j half of the loss.
i In this manner Soapy conceal.
1 ed h:s identity with many, but
law abiding citizens were aware
I of his tactics from the first.
I Roused by the outrj'ght robbery
of a man named Stewart by
i Smith’s henchman^ who is sup
1 posed to have taken $2,000 in gold
'dust from the man, vigilantes
j were organized and ways plotted
to run Soapy out of town.
Shot By Murphy ?
On a day in July of 18P8 the
vigilantes met in a warehouse on
the Skagway dock. Men had
been posted as guards some dis
tance from the meeting to pre
vent any of Smith’s gang from
joining. These members had
heretofore succeeded in gettjng
into vigilante meetings and learn
ing of plans, which they were
immediately able to frustrate.
Among the guards were two
men named Reed and Murphy.
Mr. Clayson said it is popularly
believed Smith was killed by
Reed, but those claimjng to know
assert Murphy fired the fatal shot.
Mr. Clayson was only a short
distance away when the shooting
occurred.
Soapy and about two dozen
| henchmen started for the dock to
break up the vigilantes meeting
' Halted by Reed and Murphy,
shooting started and in the fusii
ade of shots that followed Soapy
I was killed and Reed fatally
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP COMPANY
JOE HARNISH,
Agent
py Smith Posed
Camblers, When
ere His Henchmen
wounded, dying some days later.
The henchmen, morale shaken by
the loss of their leader, retreated
and scattered.
Past and Middle
West in A Cold
Wave Recently
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, Nov. 19, — The,
East and Middle West, gripped in |
a severe cold wave, received pre
dictions of slowly rising tempera- .
lures today, with hopes of relief |
within twenty four hours.
Many eastern communities re.
corded seasonal lows for this per-,
iod, extending as far south as
Virginia.
Several Majne counties have!
roads blocked by heavy snow i
drifts. The St. John river in,
i
Maine froze over for a length
of twenty miles, the er.rliest on
record.
New York City reported eight
een degrees above zero at mid.
night last night, while the West
Coast experienced unseasonably
warm weather with San Francis
co reporting ejghty above yester
day.
Toronto Girl Is j
Looking For A
Husband Alaska
I
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(Continued From Page One)
^ Address: General Delivery, Tor.
i onto, Canada.
Original Press Report
The article which induced Miss
Brandon to write the foregoing
letter appeared in the Toronto
| Daily Star under a two.column
1 headline, and read as follows:
Washington, Sept. 24, —Love’s
j sweet dream with variations,
made the department of interior
starry_eyed today as it pondered
the pleas of hundreds of lone
some, love lorn ladies.
They want husbands and they
don’t mean maybe. The depart,
ment says reproachfully that this
state of affairs is all our fault be
cause we wrote a dispatch a few
weeks back about the shortage of
women in Alaska, where two.
thirds of all the men are bache
lors.
When the papers printed this^
news the ladies started bombard
ing Secretary Harold L. Ickes” j
department with pleas for advice
and assistance in obtaining hus. I
bands. These missives arrived
at the rate of 15 to 20 a day for,
weeks, turning the establ'shment
into a kind of involuntary matri.
monial bureau.
A deluge was started. Letters
arrived by every mail. They all
were turned over to Paul W.
Gordon, chief of the Alaskan div
jsion, whose unpleasant duty it
was to write each lady a person,
al, but disappointing letter. He
told them he was sorry, but the
government couldn’t operate a
correspondence bureau for lonely
hearts. He advised all his fern,
ine correspondents to go to Alaska
or wherever, get themselves jobs
and seek their own husbands,
sans federal aid.
As for us, we’re sorry if we’ve
caused the hopes of any spinsters
to rise unduly, but the fact re.
mains that the Yukon is the
place of places for a girl to get
a proposal of marriage jnstanter.
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