Holbrook argus., 1902-08-23
SEA WALL GIVES WAY
COLLAPSE OF SANTA FEE FREIGHT
 SLIP
Horses, Wagon and Man Fall Fifty Feet-0M Man Takes His Own Life-Hops Bring P Gents 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 p cents per pound, the highest prices paid for hops in twenty years.
 Michael Casey, a laborer, was struck and killed by Berkeley local train Thursday. The dead man was about S5 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, ,0OO 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 Q series of hold-ups, in company with Geroge Tam. who committed suicide, pleaded guilty and will be sentenced Friday.
 RIP. 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 ill the case.
 Mary Garner and Hilda Koening, two girls years old, while at picnic of the Presbyterian Sunday-school at Buckley, near Tacoma, fell into the river from pile-driver. William Dougherty, a timber cruiser, jumped in and managed to save Hilda Koening, 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 hay-baling camp in Mayfeld few weeks ago. The Chi nese died after having received beat ing, and it is alleged that Campbell, 1, 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 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 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 to the Northeastern Siberian Trading Company, which organization holds a concession from the Russian govern ment covering mineral rights to 55, ,000 square miles of territory along the Siberian Coast. During the voyage, covering l2,0O0 miles, the Manauense crossed the meridian four times and VlSlttu ulHctcoIt pOItS, coVdDilSLlHS several townsites along the coast.
 E. R. Young committed suicide Thursday morning in room in the Palace Hotel at Reno, by taking mor- phine. He came recently from the East. He left note saying he was v 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 as the cause for the deed.