August 19 Friday – Four sketches appeared in the Morning Call while Sam was working there as a local reporter. They are unsigned but were in his scrapbooks and were publicly attributed to Sam by Albert S. Evans (d.1872), who was the object of ridicule in the last two sketches. The first of these was, “The New Chinese Temple.” For the other three sketches see Aug. 21, 23, and 24 entries [ET&S 2: 38; Branch, Clemens 295]. Two other local items in the Call are attributed to Sam: “The Wounded Boy,” and “Who Goes with the Money?” [Branch, C of Call 295].

August 18 Thursday – The following eight local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam:
“Washoe Congressional Gossip,” “Daring Attempt to Assassinate a Pawnbroker in Broad Daylight!,” “Man Run Over,” “The Soap Factory Nuisance,” “Fire at Hayes’ Valley,” “Launch of the New Stockton Steamer,” “Insolent Hackmen,” and “Damages for Personal Injury” [Branch, C of Call 294- 5].

August 17 Wednesday – The following six local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam:
“Aggravating a Pawnbroker,” “School Director Pope and the Call,” “Judge Shepheard’s School of Discipline,” “Conjugal Infelicity,” “A Peace-Maker,” and “The Bella Union Imbrogilo” [Branch, C of Call 294].

August 16 Tuesday – The following eight local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam:
“The Hotel Thief,” “Lively Times at the Bella Union,” “An Ill-advised Prosecution,” “A Sharp Woman,” “Rival Water Companies,” “Enlargement of the Spleen,” “Manes of an Old Ejectment Laid,” and “An Unprofitable Operation” [Branch, C of Call 294].

August 13 and 14 Sunday – Sam wrote from San Francisco to Orion and Mollie. He copied part of his letter of Aug. 12 to his mother, and made light of it [MTL 1: 307]. Sam and Steve Gillis, with six other newspapermen, took the 8:30 AM train for San Jose, which at that time was about the same size as Hannibal. After drinks at the Continental Hotel, the group strolled the streets of San Jose. After lunch at the hotel, the group hired buggies and rode twelve miles to Warm Springs, a spot where well-to-do San Franciscans took rest. There they had dinner and spent hours in the bar [Sanborn 247].

August 12 Friday – Sam wrote from San Francisco to his mother. Sam had joined the San Francisco Olympic Club and praised the blessings of exercise, saying it has added twenty years to his life. Sam commented about his article, “What a Sky-Rocket Did,” printed in the Call on this date. The article is another hoax, this time about a rocket crashing through a tenement roof, at the expense of a former member of the city’s board of supervisors, William Crawley Hinckley [MTL 1: 305-6].

August 11 Thursday – The following five local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam: “Police Judge’s Budget,” “Meteoric,” “Small Business,” “An Accumulation of Copperheads,” and “Young Celestial Derelicts” [Branch, C of Call 294].

August 5 Friday – The following nine local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam:
“Soldier Murdered by a Monomaniac,” “Misfortune Gobbleth the Lovely,” “Gentle Julia, Again,” “Gridley,” “Still Going,” “For Seal Rock and the Cliff House,” “Observing the Day,” “Almost an Item,” and “For Gambling” [Branch, C of Call 293].

August 4 Thursday – The following six local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam:
“Otium Cum Dignitate,” “Recovered,” “A Long Fast for Poor Dame Partlet,” “The Tournament,” “Police Calendar,” and “Fruit Swindling” [Branch, C of Call 293].

July 15 Friday – Sam wrote to William Wright (Dan De Quille) from the Occidental Hotel, San Francisco. He asked Dan to get George Dawson to send Sam money owed. He then related hilarious impressions of himself and Steve by the landlady at the Occidental, about a visitor who’d gone there to find the pair, but they’d moved on. Sam noted that a famous actor had left for the Sandwich Islands, which may have continued to pull Sam’s imagination [MTL 1: 304]. The article “Disposed of” in the Call is attributed to Sam [Branch, C of Call 290].