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The century begins in the city. "Every man, woman and child had a horn, and there was no lack of effort to increase the tumult." — Jan. 1
After two meetings and "much talk," the city's women of the stage form the Chorus Ladies' Protective Union, "the object of which is to hold at bay the Johnnies who hang around the stage door of the Grand Opera House." — Jan. 7
Winning an election to be the city's tax collector is only a warm-up bout for J. Harry Scott — as he finds out on his first day in office, when the incumbent and his cronies refused to give up the post. "There was a fierce, free fight, with from thirty to forty men on each side. Clubs, fists, a revolver and such weapons as the office afforded in the way of chairs, ink stands and books were used, and the whole office was badly shattered." — Jan. 9
Joseph Angelus, 18, dressed in his sister's clothing, "sat on the front porch of the family residence near Centerville and shot John Rogers, a wealthy neighboring farmer, when he came to call on Miss Minnie Angelus ......... because Rogers persisted in circulating objectionable stories about his sisters." — Jan. 12
Theodore Kytka, a detector of forged wills, is frustrated with what he says is his alcoholic coyote, Jacko. Kytka wants to "unload the frivolous beast," once a "model coyote," but now undone by his desire and ability to break open bottles and drink the contents. — Jan. 17
The Examiner profiles William B. Bradbury, a millionaire who enjoys serving as elevator boy in his own hotel. Bradbury declares that working is "what bone and muscle are given us for. When you shut down your engine your boiler is going to burst." — Feb. 4
The giant redwoods at Calaveras are being sold to a Minnesota lumberman, which The Examiner avers is "news of a sort which will stir Californians and cause earnest work to avert that danger and to save the noble forest." — Feb. 2
After going "from being the plaything of one careless man to becoming the plaything of the careless many," a prostitute known as Rosa Reaves attempts suicide in Golden Gate Park in the shadow of Prayer Book Cross in the first hour of Good Friday. Swallowing a bottle of Lysol, she lays down to die with a white rose in her mouth but is rescued. — April 14
After the State Board of Health threatens to seal off the entire City, 159 policemen institute a quarantine of Chinatown, where nine deaths have been blamed on bubonic plague. — May 30
More than 20 men and boys watching the Big Game are killed and another 80 injured when the roof of the San Francisco and Pacific Glass Works manufacturing plant collapses, plunging them 45 feet onto red-hot furnaces and brick floors. An injured boy declares a factory employee charged him admission to the roof to watch Stanford play Cal across Fifteenth Street. — Nov. 30