The dead are buried in a mass grave at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery. A Navy coal station opens on Point Loma, beginning the era of permanent Navy installations in San Diego. Imperial County secedes from San Diego County. 1908 - The Great White Fleet comes to San Diego, part of President Teddy Roosevelt's plan to project American military might around the globe. The fleet stays for four days, to the delight of San Diegans.
City Park is renamed Balboa Park.
Alonzo Horton dies. Glenn Curtiss pilots the first successful seaplane flight on Jan. 26. The Navy sends three pilots to train with Curtiss at his flight school on North Island, ending forever calm, quiet mornings on San Diego Bay. A coalition of unionists and others from around California come to San Diego to turn back the city's new restrictions on free speech. The demonstrations are brutally put down by police and vigilantes, whose techniques included using ax handles, tarring and feathering.