Day By Day Dates

July 17 Sunday – The following six local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam: “Independent Candidate for Stockton,” “More Cigar Smoking,” “The County Prison,” “Progress of the Camanche—the Libel,” “Juvenile Criminals,” and “Two Infernally Accommodating” [Branch, C of Call 291].

July 19 Tuesday – The following five local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam: “Assault,” “ Real del Monte,” “Camanche Matters,” “Police Court,” and “State Prisoners” [Branch, C of Call 291].

July 20 Wednesday – The following four local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam: “A Stage Robber Amongst Us,” “The Poetic Rabies,” “Police Court,” and “Police Appelants” [Branch, C of Call 291].

July 21 Thursday – The following six local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam: “Police Applicants,” “Amazonian Pastimes,” “More Young Thieves,” “Attempted Mayhem,” and “Detective Rose Again” [Branch, C of Call 291].

July 22 Friday – The following eight local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam:
“The Boss Earthquake,” “The Police Court Besieged,” “Good Effects of a High Tariff,” “Rough on Keating,” “A Scene at the Police Court—The Hostility of Color,” “First Regiment Election,” “Arrest of a Secesh Bishop,” and “Astonishing Freak of Nature” [Branch, C of Call 291].

July 23 Saturday – The following six local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam: “Demoralizing Young Girls,” “Rape,” “The Nose-Biter,” “Oh! That Mine Enemy Would Make a Speech!,” “Discharged,” and “False Pretenses” [Branch, C of Call 291].

July 24 Sunday – The following five local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam: “Startling!—The Latest General Order,” “Obscene-Picture Dealers,” “A Merited Penalty,” “The ‘Nina Tilden’,” and “Police Court Doings” [Branch, C of Call 291].

July 26 Tuesday – The following three local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam: “Vending Obscene Pictures,” “Lewd Merchandise,” and “ Concerning Hackmen” [Branch, C of Call 292].

July 27 Wednesday – The following three local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam: “Family Jar,” “Bail Forfeited,” and “Police Court” [Branch, C of Call 292].

July 28 Thursday – The following two local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam: “Munificent Donation,” and “Sliding Scale of Assault and Battery” [Branch, C of Call 292].

July 29 Friday – The following two local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam: “Obscene Information,” and “On a Pleasure Trip” [Branch, C of Call 292].

July 30 Saturday – The following ten local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam:
“Trot Her Along,” “More Sanitary Molasses,” “Washoe Mining Festivals,” “ Mrs. O’Farrell,” “The Sinking Ship Deserted,” “Caving In,” “ “Emancipation Celebration,” “End of the Rape Case,” “Police Court,” and “After Sundries” [Branch, C of Call 292].

July 31 Sunday – The following ten local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam:
“The Camanche,” “Disgusted and Gone,” “Burglary,” “Custom House Resignations,” “Dr. Bellows Safe,” “Go to the Sea-Side,” “Another Lazarus,” “County Jail Addition,” “One Day for Reflection,” and “Police Court” [Branch, C of Call 292].

August 2 Tuesday – The following seven local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam: “Somber Festivities,” “Relieved,” Enlisted for the War,” “Fall of a Flag-staff,” “Assault to Kill,” “Refused Greenbacks,” and “Board of Supervisors” [Branch, C of Call 292].

August 3 Wednesday – The following six local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam: “Runaway,” “Democratic Meeting at Hayes’ Park,” “More Stage Robbers and Their Confederates Captured,” “Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire,” “A Movement in the Buckeye,” and “Attempted Suicide” [Branch, C of Call 292-3].

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].

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 6 Saturday – The following six local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam: “Another Obscene Picture Knave Captured, etc.,” “The Fitzgerald Inquest,” “Attention, Hackmen,” “Police Drill,” “Judicial Strategy,” and “Arrested for Theft” [Branch, C of Call 293].

August 7 Sunday – The following nine local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam:
“Attempted Suicide,” “The Makee Molasses,” “The People’s Excursion,” “To Be Mended,” “Forfeited Bail,” “Locked Up,” “Row Among the Doctors,” “A Dead Dog Case,” and “Shop Lifting” [Branch, C of Call 293].

August 9 Tuesday – The following four local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam: “Distinguished Arrivals,” “Assault by a House,” “Escaped,” and “Mysterious” [Branch, C of Call 293].

August 10 Wednesday – The following eight local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam:
“Our U.S. Branch Mint,” “They Got Her Out,” “Intelligence Office Row,” “The Murderer Kennedy— A Question of Jurisdiction,” “It Was True,” “Collision,” “A New Star,” and “Board of Education” [Branch, C of Call 293-4].

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 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 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 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].