from the sf chronicle

Jul 31, 1891

The Golden Gate Park police force were in an exceedingly high state of excitement yesterday morning, searching every nook and corner for a lost wig.

Fred Merino, an estimable citizen of Eureka, Humbuldt county, while visiting the park, had lost his wig, a new and glossy one with Hyperian curls. Merino, in reporting the loss of his locks, could not tell whether they had blown away for whether the little sparrows had carried them to some obscure bush to build a nest with. All he knew was that when he awoke from a peaceful snooze under one of the huge spreading oaks near the buffalo corral his treasured wig was gone.

. . .After the search had been kept up for nearly two hours the searchers concluded that the wig had been found by some bald stranger in the park who had worn it away or that it had been eaten by one of the buffaloes.