Passenger on the Rival departing Port Townsend, WA 3/6/98, Port Townsend Leader, 3/7/98; Arrived in Alaska, Feb. 1898, C1900; Visits Dooley’s spruce bough hut at Quartz Creek area, Dooley Diary, 9/18/98; Dooley, Kern, and Owens start trip up Tonsina River, Diary, 10/2/98; Locator, “Snowflake Placer Claim” on Manker Creek, witnesses Cochran & Gordon,TMDR, p. 45; UKMDR, October 1898, Locator, p. 61; Locator with Bradbury and Hurd witnesses, 8/21/1989, p. 167; Member of George Dooley’s Party: G. W. Karstens, J.H. Karstens, George Kern, W.T. Looker, Frank Owens, William Orr, George Bradbury, Dooley Letter, Pathfinder; for additional information see Dooley Diary, passim.
In Valdez between 6/11/1900-6/26/1900, C1900;