The Winslow mail., 1902-08-23
SEA WALL GIVES WAY
COLLAPSE OF SANTA FE FREIGHT
SLIP
Horses. Wagon and Man Fall Fifty Feet-0ld
Man Takes His Own -Lfe-Hops Bring u
Cents per Pound-Two Little Girls Fall into
River and One Is Drowned.

River and One Is Drowned.
Twenty-Five bales of last years hops
were sold at Eugene, Or, Thursday,
at % cents per pound, the highest
prices paid for hops in twenty years.
Michael Casey, laborer, was
struck and killed by.a Berkeley local
train Thursday. The dead man was
about IS years of age and deaf. The
supposition is that he stepped in front
of the train as it was pulling out of
the station.
Patsey Carroll, familiarly known
as Whistling Patsey Carroll and whose
reputation was such that the police
reckoned him one of the sharpest bunco
steerers on the Coast, is dead. He
died Thursday in the Alameda County
Hospital of tuberculosis of the stomach.
The lumber schooner Merchant,
which went ashore on the south spit of
Mehalem Bay, was high and dry when
the tide went out Thursday night. An
effort will be made to save the cargo
of 260, 900 feet of lumber. The vessel
is total wreck.
Fred Williams, the young highway
man who created such sensation on
the Monterey road last Saturday by a
series OF hold-ups, in company with
GerOge Tam, who committed suicide,
pleaded guilty and will be sentenced
Friday.
R. P.J. Monroe, the painter who
pleaded guilty to incest, at San Jose,
was sentenced to eight years in the
State prison. The District Attorney
recommended that mercy be shown
owing to peculiar circumstances in the
case.
Mary Garner and Hilda Koening,
two girls years old, while at picnic
of the Presbyteria Sunday-school at
Buckley, near Tacoma, fell into the
river from pile-driver. William
Dougherty, timber cruiser, jumped
in and managed to save Hilda Koenin2,
but the Garner girl was drowned.
Ching Lee has made complaint in
the Justices Court charging James
Campbell with the murder of Chi
nese cook at a hay-baling camp in
Mayfield few weeks ago. The Chi
nese died after having received beat
ing, and it is alleged that Campbell
foreman of the hay balers, was the
assailant.
John Jenkins, prominent rancher
of the Carmel, while at Pine Canyon
grade, near Salinas, attempted to back
a heavily-laden wagon at short turn
of the road. The hind wheel of the
wagon went over the edge of the bank,
carrying Jenkins, horses and wagon
down a distance of fifty feet. He was
picked up by neighbors who witnessed
the accident, and it was found that
both legs were broken at the knee. He
died five minutes after being picked up.
The steamship Manauense arrived
at Port Townsend, Thursday, from a
trip begun May IA, under charter tc
the Northeastern Siberian Trading
Company, which organization holds 9
concession from the Russian govern.
ment covering mineral rights to 55, ,OOC
square miles of territory along the
covering 1900 miles, the Manauense
crossed the meridian four times and
visited nineteen ports, establishing
E. R. Young committed suicide
Thursday morning in a room in the
Palace Hotel at Reno, by taking NOR
phine. He came recently from the
East. He left note saying he was
II years of age, and request that the
Omaha Bee be notified of his death
The note said he had no relatives he
wished to notify, and gave sickness a.
the, cause for the deed.