“Soapy’s’’ grave covered with wire netting to protect it from
souvenir-hunting tourists.

Escapees Planned to Overthrow
Mounted Police

Escaping to the Yukon, some of the
gang attempted to re-form at White-
horse, planning to overthrow the
Mounted Police, rob the banks, and
establish a republic.

But the half-hatched conspiracy
was discovered by Superintendent
A. F. Snyder of the Force, incrimin-
ating papers and the White Horse
Seal of the revolutionaries were seized

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Skull carved on a towering rock as a warning, marked the resting

place of Jefferson Randolph Smith.

in a barn, and the members lost little
time in scuttling to other and more
healthy climes.

In the presence of an enormous
crowd “Soapy” Smith was buried
near the church he’d helped to
establish with the ill-gotten gains
of the gang, and for some time
an insulting phrase penned on a
card in a cleft stick, was all that
marked his grave.

After lingering for 12 days, Frank
Reid passed away, to be buried but a
few short yards from the man whose
Nemesis he’d proven.

For a while naught but a wooden
marker and a huge representation of
a human skull carved on a towering
rock as a grisly warning, marked the
resting-place of the man who once had

been Lord of Skagway. Today a small
stone, encased in wire netting to pre-
vent it being chipped away by
souvenir-hunting tourists, marks
“Soapy’s” grave. And, towering above
it—casting its shadow over it when
the sun rides high in the northern
sky—stands the beautiful monument
erected by the citizens of Skagway to
honor the memory of City Engineer
Frank H. Reid, who gave his life to
end the criminal rule of “Soapy’” and
his hirelings. * *

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