Day By Day Dates

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 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 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 20 Saturday – The following six local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam: “Who Lost Them,” “The Same Subject Continued,” “A Revolutionary Patriot,” “More Abuse of Sailors,” “Suit Against a Mining Superintendent,” and “Mary Kane” [Branch, C of Call 295].

August 21 Sunday – The second of Sam’s four sketches was printed in the Call, “The Chinese Temple.” Four other local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam: “Arms Taken in Charge by the Authorities,” “False Rumor,” “Still Improving,” and “It is the Daniel Webster” [Branch, C of Call 295].

August 23 Tuesday – The third of Sam’s four sketches was printed in the Call, “The New Chinese Temple.” Six other local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam: “No Earthquake,” “Inexplicable News from San Jose,” “Camanche Items—Sanitary Contributions,” “Rain,” “Board of Supervisors,” and “Sentenced Yesterday” [Branch, C of Call 295].

August 24 Wednesday – The fourth of Sam’s four sketches was printed in the Call, “Supernatural Impudence.” Five other local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam: “Birney and Bunsby,” “Ingratitude,” “A Dark Transaction,” “Police Contributions,” and “Police Record” [Branch, C of Call 295].

August 25 Thursday – The following five local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam: “War of the Races,” “Henry Meyer,” “The Ladies’ Fair,” “Judgments Against the ‘Sir George Grey’,” and “The Theatres, Etc: Metropolitan” [Branch, C of Call 295-6].

August 26 Friday – The following four local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam: “Mechanics’ Fair,” “Who Killed Him?,” “Good From Louderback,” and “A Confederacy Caged” [Branch, C of Call 296].

August 27 Saturday – Sam’s article, “How to Cure Him of It,” appeared in the Call. This “permanent cure” was for a barking dog and would make the dog “as quiet and docile as a dried herring” (a double handful of strychnine, dissolved in a quart of Prussic acid) [ET&S 2: 57].

Five other local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam: “The Fair,” “Arrest of Another of the Robbing Gang,” “More Hawaiian Donations,” “Who Lost Evangeline?,” and “The Forlorn Hope” [Branch, C of Call 296].

August 28 Sunday – The following five local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam: “Fair,” “Determined on Suicide,” “The Red, Black, and Blue,” “A Chicken Case,” and “Don’t Bury Your Money in Oyster Cans” [Branch, C of Call 296].

August 30 Tuesday – The following six local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam: “Police Calendar,” “Dismissed,” “Fined,” “Board of Supervisors,” “Enthusiastic Hard Money Demonstration,” and “Chinese Railroad Obstructions,” below: [Branch, C of Call 296].

August 31 Wednesday – The following seven local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam: “Good and Bad Luck,” “The Pueblo Case,” “Mayhem,” “Strong as Sampson and Meek as Moses,” “Henry Meyer,” “China at the Fair,” and “Shiner No.1” [Branch, C of Call 296].
Sam paid $25 “fr sale of mining stock” to Daggett & Myers for rent owed with De Quille [Mack 246]. Note: evidently, Sam was still sharing the cost for the Virginia City rooms.

September 1 Thursday – The following ten local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam:
“The Cosmopolitan Hotel Besieged,” “Strategy, My Boy,” “A Doubtful Case,” “Mechanics’ Fair,” “Police Subjects,” “Kane Presentation,” “Cannibalistic,” “The Theatres, Etc.: Mr. Masset’s Lecture —‘Drifting About’,” “Rincon School Militia,” and “Fine Picture of Rev. Mr. King” [Branch, C of Call 296-7].

September 2 Friday – The following six local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam: “Lost Child,” “The Camanche,” “The Art Gallery,” “Rewards of Merit,” “The Mechanics’ Fair,” and “The Roll of Fame” [Branch, C of Call 297].

September 3 Saturday – The following nine local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam:

“California Branch of the U.S. Sanitary Commission,” “Suicide out of Principle,” “Afloat Again,” “The Lost Child Reclaimed,” “A Wrecking Party in Luck,” “Marine Nondescript,” “Labyrinth Garden,” “Contempt of Court,” and “Another Pawnbroker in Trouble” [Branch, C of Call 297].

September 4 Sunday – The following eight local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam:
“Opening of the Fair,” “Looks Like Sharp Practice,” “A Terrible Monster Caged,” “The Hurdle- Race Today,” “Domestic Silks,” “The Californian,” “Brutal,” and “Criminal Calendar” [Branch, C of Call 297].

September 6 Tuesday – The following nine local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam:
“Peeping Tom of Coventry,” “A Small Piece of Spite,” “A Promising Artist,” “Turned Out of Office,” “Mechanic’s Fair,” “The Pound-Keeper Beheaded,” “A Long Fast,” “Conjugal Infelicity,” and “Set for Wednesday” [Branch, C of Call 297].

September 7 Wednesday – The voters of Nevada approved a new constitution by a margin as large as they’d defeated the earlier one months before, five to one. The main reason for approval was the removal of the tax on mines, making it a tax only on proceeds [Fatout, MT in VC 149].
The following six local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam: “Terrible Calamity,” “Amende Honorable,” “Christian Fair,” “In Bad Company,” “Police Court Sentences,” and “Come to Grief” [Branch, C of Call 297].

September 7 and 8 Thursday – The Democratic State Convention met in San Francisco to nominate candidates for Congress, and also presidential electors pledged to General George B. McClellan.
James Norman Gillis (1830-1907), Steve’s older brother, was a delegate from Tuolumne County, Calif., a mining district in the Sierra foothills. Sam liked James instantly. James enjoyed a good story, was highly literate and trained as a doctor. Sam covered the convention for the Call.

September 8 Thursday – The following six local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam:
“Democratic State Convention,” “The Ladies’ Fair,” “Captain Kidd’s Statement,” “Earthquake,” “Mark Mayer Ahead on the Home Stretch,” and “Beautiful Work” [Branch, C of Call 298].

September 9 Friday – The following four local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam: “Mrs. Hall’s Smelting Furnace,” “Charitable Contributions,” “Democratic Ratification Meeting,” and “Cross Swearing” [Branch, C of Call 298].

September 10 Saturday – The following five local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam:
“Curiosities,” “A Philanthropic Nation,” “Race for the Occidental Hotel Premium,” “Discharged,” and “Doing a General Business” [Branch, C of Call 298].

The Golden Era announced that Bret Harte was editor of the magazine. Harte would be editor until Nov. 19, 1864; and again from Dec. 9 to 30, 1865 [Benson 119].

September 11 Sunday – The following two local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam: “Attempted Assassination of a Detective Officer,” and “Large” [Branch, C of Call 298].

September 13 Tuesday – The following seven local articles in the Call are attributed to Sam: “The Camanche,” “An Abolition Outrage,” “Sad Accident—Death of Jerome Rice,” “Lost Children,” “Police Target Excursion,” “Sent Up,” and “Plethoric” [Branch, C of Call 298].