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The Examiner greets the new century with a story by Clement Scott of the London Free Lance on the future of journalism, predicting a day when reporters would require no paper, no pencils and no pens, and poetic descriptions will be sent by "'neurotic telegraphy." The story predicts color printing will be the biggest improvement. — Jan. 1 The "Boston agitation" over teachers wearing short skirts reaches San Francisco. Miss Katherine Gaines, a teacher, says: "The chief objection to the short skirt seems to be the question of dignity. Surely if dignity is not a part of a woman's personality, she can not acquire it by wearing a gown sufficiently long to gather up the streets' bacilli." — Feb. 17 The steamship City of Rio de Janeiro strikes a rock and sinks off Fort Point, carrying over 110 persons to their deaths. — Feb. 23 Naturalist John Muir tells of an earthquake in Yosemite Valley: "Though I had never before enjoyed a storm of this sort, the strange, wild, thrilling motion and rumbling could not be mistaken, and I ran out of my cabin, near the Sentinel Rock, both glad and frightened, shouting, 'A noble earthquake!' feeling sure I was going to learn something." — April 21. Five alleged stock thieves are hanged by a Modoc mob. — June 1. Novelist Jack London reports on a Nevada Native American tribe's attempt to assimilate white culture: "This in a nutshell, is the programme mapped out by Captain Pete, chief of the Washoes: Away into Limbo with the ancient religious ritual! No more painted faces and naked bodies whirling madly in the ghost orgies and sweat dances! Down with the medicine men, their mysteries and incantations! And as for the tribal history, sacredly preserved for a thousand thousand generations and already on the way to oblivion, let it perish, the last least line of it, and be utterly forgotten!" — June 16 Authorities exhume the body of Lee Wing, put it in a giant caldron at the Chinese Cemetery in San Jose and boil the bullets out of the corpse to aid in the investigation of his murder. Wing had been shot 22 times, but the defense attorney claims the bullets are of a different caliber than those fired by the suspect, Lee Look. — July 12 The entire business district of Los Gatos burns down. — Oct. 14 Fred Marsh, 15, faces arrest for torturing Louis Silversteen, 8. Louis' father, Moritz, of Oakland, attributes the treatment of his son to race hatred. "My family has always been hooted at because they are Jews." — Dec. 1 At least three people drown in San Francisco Bay and scores are injured in a collision between the ferry boats "Sausalito" and "San Rafael" in heavy fog between the Powell Street pier and Alcatraz Island. More than 700 passengers are saved from the Bay as The San Rafael sinks. — Dec. 1 Jane L. Stanford deeds to Stanford University property, bonds and stocks estimated to be worth $28 million, "the largest gift ever made by any woman, in any country, to any institution or individual." — Dec. 10 |
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