The Daily Alta California

[1] With Dr. E. B. Jones as editor, the California Star was the city's only newspaper until an older publication, The Californian, moved to Yerba Buena (as San Francisco was then called) from Monterey in mid-1847.

The California Star appeared weekly until June 14, 1848, when it was forced to shut down because its entire staff had departed for the gold fields.

Later that year, Sam Brannan sold his interest in the moribund California Star to Edward Cleveland Kemble, who also acquired The Californian.

Kemble resumed publication of the combined papers under the name Star and Californian on November 18, 1848.

[2] By 1849, the paper had come under the control of Robert B. Semple, cofounder of The Californian, who changed its name to the Alta California.