Smart, Raitor and Delehay party of St. Cloud gold seekers leaving for Alaska with Stubbs, Shaule, Lace, Canton, McKay, Scott, Smith, Somonson also of MN and Lancaster of IL on 2/7/98, 2/1/98, St. Cloud MN Journal-Press; Second-class passenger on steamer Excelsior, departing Seattle, 2/27/98 for Valdez, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2/28/98; Head of a party of former Great Northern RR employees, Conger, p. 155; M. Hessian stops overnight with Scott, Smith and Shaule of the Great Northern Camp at Copper Center, Millard working on trail, St. Cloud MN Journal-Press, Hessian letter 7/21/98; traveled 600 miles to Tanana and back to Valdez, with Hessian brothers, Geo. Stubbs, Harry Smith now in Juneau for winter, St. Cloud MN Journal-Press, 10/27/98; returned to St. Paul winter of 1898-99, Conger, p. 205;