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Accumulated Fragments: The mother of the North

...called Jefferson Randolph Smith or Soapy Smith. He was the titular head of organized...Pullen's main competitors were some of Soapy Smith's henchmen. They were truly...railroad.On the evening of July 8, Soapy Smith and Frank Reid met on the wharf...

http://juneauempire.com/neighbors/2012-11-11/accumulated-fragments-mother-north
Neighbors
Veliz' new exhibit focuses on Juneau

...that's more like Juneau and Skagway combined ? the planned film includes real life historical figures, such as Soapy Smith, as well as five central Tlingit characters she's chosen to express in both animal and human form.In previous...

http://juneauempire.com/art/2012-05-17/veliz-new-exhibit-focuses-juneau
Art
Alaska's motley early governors

...Jackson College as a school for training Alaska Natives in 1878. He was introduced to the infamous Alaskan bad man Soapy Smith, in his first year as governor, during the July 4, 1898 festivities in Skagway. Brady was made aware of Soapy's...

http://juneauempire.com/neighbors/2011-08-20/alaskas-motley-early-governors
Neighbors
Alaska on the page

...the Klondike through a graphic novel, depicting such characters as George Carmack and Robert Henderson, con artist Soapy Smith, Belinda Mulrooney and "Skookum Jim" Mason against the backdrop of the Canadian wilderness."Inside Passage" by...

http://juneauempire.com/art/2011-12-15/alaska-page
Art
Journalist 'Stroller' White liked a good joke - in print

...overlapped with that of Randolph "Soapy" Smith. Smith and his gang broke the...White's writing. It is headlined "Soapy Smith's Last Bluff and Its Fatal Ending...During the next several months Soapy Smith and the Stroller held services...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/060204/nei_stroller.shtml
Neighbors
This Day in History

In Alaska In 1898, Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith, gambler and character of ill-repute, was shot and killed in Skagway. In 1923, President Warren G. Harding arrived in Ketchikan...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/070803/loc_history.shtml
News
This Day in History

In Alaska In 1898, Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith, gambler and character of ill-repute, was shot. He died in Skagway. In 1923, President Warren G. Harding arrived in Ketchikan...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/070805/sta_20050708016.shtml
News
State Briefs

...charge against Nick Stepovich. Stepovich, 45, is District 10 chairman of the Republican Party of Alaska and owner of Soapy Smith's Pioneer Restaurant. His name also was recently put forward by Rep. Jim Whitaker as a potential replacement in...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/071503/sta_briefs.shtml
News
Ethical hunting

...time to patrol our roads. Are we living in Eden, Armageddon or Oz? Skagway had its Committee of 101 to get rid of Soapy Smith. Perhaps Juneau needs a Committee of 10,010 to get rid of its riff-raff. Where are you Cindy? MADD needs you...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/082102/let_letter2.shtml
Opinion
Alaska Digest

...has recommended Rich Hughes, Nick Stepovich and Jay Ramras as potential replacements. Stepovich, 45, is owner of Soapy Smith's Pioneer Restaurant and chair of the Republicans in Whitaker's district. Whitaker recommended Stepovich to be...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/111003/sta_adigest.shtml
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