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The Boston College of Painless Dentistry on Market Street advertises a "full set of best teeth" for $1. — Jan. 17
Dr. D.D. Crowley, "Oakland's foremost and most fashionable physician," is horse whipped by his wife while leaving the residence of one Anna Seligman. "I have had my satisfaction, and have nothing else to say," said Mrs. Crowley who has married, divorced and remarried the now scarred doctor. — April 10.
Milk from the Nuñez and Perreira ranch is blamed for an outbreak of typhoid in Palo Alto. More than a hundred cases and one death are reported. — April 22
California girl Isadora Duncan, "the American high priestess of the classic style of dancing" has opened a dance school and sparked a barefoot fad in Berlin. — May 10
Four of the 11 presidents of the Chinese See Yup Society are arrested and charged with conspiring to murder the 300 members of the Chinese Society of English Education for exposing gambling corruption. — May 10
President Theodore Roosevelt is given a doctorate of law at the University of California in the brand new, unnamed amphitheater donated to UC by William Randolph Hearst. — May 15
The speeding Coast Limited train out of San Francisco plunges down a 50-foot embankment into the sea near Santa Barbara, injuring over 40 and killing an untold number. — May 31
A mugger dubbed "Pete the Pepper" terrorizes women by throwing the stinging spice in their eyes and snatching purses. — July 4
The old castle built by Adolph Sutro on Telegraph Hill, a tourist attraction, is destroyed by fire. — July 26
A deputy U.S. marshal commits suicide and three San Francisco deputy sheriffs are arrested over bribes paid by Chinese to sidestep the anti-Chinese Exclusion Act and gain entry into the United States. — Sept. 20
California, reports the Examiner, is "rapidly falling in love with the buzz wagon." Where the city only boasted 25 autos three years before, a whopping 500 of the expensive beasts now cruise up and down its hills. — Nov. 19
Joseph Tyson, a 49er and founder of the Yreka Union newspaper, is one of the day's six gas victims. In the last two years in the city, more than two hundred and fifty people have been killed by gas leaks. — Dec. 21