San Francisco Evening Bulletin

King used the newspaper to crusade against political corruption, and built it into having the highest circulation in the city.

[1] He died a year after its founding, assassinated by rival newspaperman and local politician James P. Casey, whom King had exposed as an ex-felon.

[3] In December 1894, R. A. Crothers purchased the San Francisco Evening Bulletin from the estate of Loring Pickering.

[4] Fremont Older became editor-in-chief in 1895, at a time when the newspaper had diminished in influence, and he built it up by again attacking corruption.

He was forced to step down in 1918, and in 1929 the newspaper was bought by William Randolph Hearst, who merged it with The San Francisco Call.