Soapy Smith 
his band, mounted a horse, and _ proceeded 
down the street to “make hay” generally. 
At the jetty end of the town he came face to 
face with the sheriff, and without giving him 
time to talk Soapy began shooting, mortally 
wounding his man. The sheriff, although dying, 
drew his revolver and shot Soapy dead. Then 
there was a general pandemonium, the towns- 
people proving victorious. 
During the Cuban War Soapy is supposed to 
have offered to raise for the U.S.A. Government 
a body of men to be called ‘“‘Smith’s Rifle 
Rangers,’ to be commanded by himself. A 
witty American, who knew the man and his 
methods, summed up the offer dryly by saying, 
‘““Soapy Smith! I guess he’d range on the out- 
skirts of any battlefield and rifle the pockets of 
the dead.”’ 
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