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The Daily Alaska Empire
Juneau, Juneau County, Alaska
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In anticipation of Juneau's Pioneers' Days of '98 next Saturday, the museum exhibits artifacts related to criminal Soapy Smith, including a lock of his hair, 1898 handbills from Skagway Vigilance Committee, and photos of him alive and in the morgue. Items donated by Mrs. W. H. Case and Dr. Will Chase.
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In keeping with the spirit of the Juneau Pioneers' Days of '98 to be held next Saturday, a lock of hair of the notorious "Soapy" Smith is now on display in the Museum. Also, there is a handbill warning to Soapy and his gang distributed by the Skagway Vigilance Committee of 1898. Beside it is displayed Soapy's answer to warning allegedly printed by a committee of 317 law abiding citizens but actually tacked to the doors of each vigilante by Soapy, himself.
Also are shown pictures of the handsome Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith in his heyday of crime plus another of him laying in the Skagway morgue.
The lock of hair was presented to the Museum by the late Mrs. W. H. Case of Juneau and the handbills were presented more than 25 years ago by Dr. Will Chase of Cordova.
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Juneau
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Next Saturday
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A lock of hair of Soapy Smith is on display in the Museum, along with a handbill warning to Soapy and his gang from the Skagway Vigilance Committee of 1898, Soapy's response handbill, and pictures of Soapy Smith in his heyday of crime and lying in the Skagway morgue. The lock of hair was presented by the late Mrs. W. H. Case of Juneau, and the handbills by Dr. Will Chase of Cordova more than 25 years ago.