June 6 Monday – Sam secured employment as a local reporter for the San Francisco Morning Call at forty dollars a week [Branch, C of Call 16]. His duties included local news, public meetings, and local theater productions. His hours were long and irregular. He wrote candidly about the racial and social injustices he saw, particularly about the Chinese. These articles were censored or discarded by the paper’s conservative editor, but many were printed by the Enterprise. Sam would grow bored with the job and considered an offer as a government pilot on the Mississippi at $300 a month [MTL 1: 302; MT Encyclopedia, McFatter 652-3]. Steve Gillis got a job as a typographer at the Evening Bulletin [Sanborn 243].