The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-30
KNOWS It IS
YELLOW AND
PROUD OF IT
One More Examiner
Fake Pleasantly
Noted.
Dawson News ACQUIRED
Through the Medium
of Clairvoyance.
"Intrepid" Egan Passes I'M
passable Passes Like an
Airy Sprite.
FATHER TIME OUTCLASSED
Exclusive News" That Was Not
Exclusive and Was for Sale to
the Highest Bidder.

One would think that the Examiner
might learn by experience. The seller
Of gold bricks, once detected, is eau
tious in displaying his wares. But
yellow journalism goes right on mark
ing its way through a world Of woe by
so plain a trail of exploded fakes that
even detective may follow it.
The Examiner has been caught
again; rather it impaled ITSELF placed
brand of falsehood upon it's yellow
brow and proudly called attention to
the adornment 1t INDUCES in truth
as the Englishman joked-with diff
Guilty. But when it tells a lie, Klon-
dixie whopper, and then asks its read
ers to note the achievement. it is
bound to receive credit for one truth.
The exposure is frankness. veracity,
simplicity.
The Examiner yesterday claimed to
publish exclusives Klondike news,
brought from the region of snow by
a special messenger who in doing 1t
had broken all records, knocked Time
out in one round, sprinJed over i'm
passable passes, and otherwise earned
the laurel wreath of fame. He had
not paused to implore: Backward,
turn backward, oh Time in thy
flight" but had turned it back turned
it forward, or any old way suited to a
journalist in haste. Being prize
fighter this was easy for him. This
| special messenger had the company OF
w. A Kersting, likewise commits
sioner" and likewise intrepid.
This new giant of newspaperdom is
| named Egan, better known as Mon
tana Kid, of Sacramento. and as an ac-
! uuisition is a distinct gain to the
Hearstlings. They already had among
them a thief, forger and an inclina-
tion towards blackmail. They needed
prize-fighter. and now their environ
ment needs the police.
The intrepid Egan claims to have
| left Dawson City November %. The
| news he bore is dated November 20.
| The intrepid" Egan, in addition to his
other gifts, seems to have those of
clairvoyancy and CAB. In an interview
| he said he left on the 23rd and there
were his precious dispatches of the 25th
and nobody thought to make the dates
| agree. Such carelessness among takers
| is little short of unprofessional He said
| also that Sam Wall of The Call had
started a day ahead of him. Mr.. Wall
did not. He is in Dawson yet. and not
of the mettle to retreat 1t will be re-
| membered that when the weather up
! that way got frosty, the Examiner
| special commissioners wrapped the
! drapery of their state-rooms about
| ed on to warn Dawson of it's danger.
Intrepid" Egan claims to have made
| the trip to Seattle in thirty-oHe days.
| If there is virtue in arithmetic he made
| it in thirty-six days, trif1ing differ
ence, but nothing to a real Montana
| Kid.
Here are a few facts, and facts have
| been characterized as stubborn: When
the intrepid" special commissioner ar
rived at Seattle he or his partner let it
/ be understood that he had news of vast
| import, news to startle the world and
all of it exclusive. The partner inti-
mated broadly that it could be obtained
for $780, Remember, this was the news
| over which the Examiner crows so
| Justify. But it happened that there
was nothing in it that was not also on
hand for The Call from Wall, and there
fore the intrepid Mohrana Kid un-
| loaded his wares upon the Examiner to
| that papers delight and the gaiety of
| cruel persons who like to see sucker
taken in. The difference in the news
was that Walls was honestly dated
and unaccompanied by any boasts of
| having sent Father Time to grass. Yet
| the Examiner has excelled even this
stupidity. 1t has published under date
of November 25 Klondike information
that was in The Call under date of No
| vember %
The public is beginning to understand
! that the Examiner is opposed to the
| hampering presence of verities, that
everybody who gathers any informa-
| ton. particularly of an unreliable sort,
| is at once announced as a special
| commissioner" and heralded as
world beater So when the world
pays any attention, it is for the
purpose of enjoying a grin. These
| commissioners did once have
! the power to beat the world,
| in bunko fashion, but they have worn
it out. Now their work seems as raw
| as that of an amateur essaying the
| shell and pea game.
COMMODORE HOWELL