The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1906-06-05
P|CKETT'S
SAD DEATH

MAUI, June 1.-The accident in Pun
meme mill last Saturday evening, which
resulted in the untimely death of Wal
ter H. Pickett, 26 years of age, was
inexpressibly sad Though the young
man was little known on the island the
whole community of Central Maui was
greatly shocked and felt most sympa-
thetic for the parents of the boy who
reside far away in Fresno, California.
About half past nine last Saturday
evening, young Pickett, in company
with his friend. Ed. Peck were being
shown by w. w. Westcott some new
machinery recently set up in the mill.
By some mischance, the coat of the
young man was caught in a revolving
shaft and before anything in the way
of rescue could be accomplished he was
quickly drawn into the moving ma
chnery and terribly crushed and man
gled-both feet and an arm were
wrenched from the body, DR.. f. f.
Sawyer was hastily summoned but ar
rived too late.
Pickett lived a short time, long
enough to give directions as to the
disposal of his body after DEATH which
were to have it embalmed and con-
veyed to his old home in California.
On Sunday the body in charge of Ed.
Peck was conveyed to Honolulu by the
tug Fearless.
Walter Pickett was a civil engineer
educated at Stanford University and
had been employed by the II. c. & S.
Co. for eighteen months in surveying
lands adjoining the ditch at Kailua
where w. F. Pogue has charge. For
Just nine days before the fatality he
had been surveying at Puunene. He
had no relatives on Maui. His father,
mother. sister and brother are resi-
dents of California.
POLO CLUB BUSINESS.
Monday evening, the Makawao Polo
Club held a meeting at "Kaleionalu,'
the Paia beach cottage of l.. Won Temp
sky. The principal business transacted
was the choice of colors and captains
and the apportionment of players for
practice games. The matter was left
to a committee of five who reported as
follows: Captains, l.. Won Tempsky
and Frank F. Baldwin; colors, Won
Tempsky's side white, and Baldwin S
side red The playing members were
divided into two sections, the reds,
under Captain Baldwin, being IL. A.
Baldwin, w. O. Aiken q. S. Aiken, j.
b. Thompson, b. V. Bazata, Ed. Peck,
and VIM. Clark. and the whites" un-
der Captain Won Tempsky. ID. T. Flcm-
ing, q. W, Wilbur, &. $. Dole, ID, G.
Lindsay, sam. Baldwin, Willie Engle
and j. a. Reed.
The whites viii lose two valuable
players In about a month, as q. w,
Wilbur win go to the Coast on a vaca-
ton and &, s. Dole will accept a posi-
ton al koloa, Kauai.
The club had a practice game on It's
Sunnysde grounds last saturday after
noon The lineup OF players for the
first period was as follows =, y,
Baldwin toaptanl, n A, Baldwin q
$, Aiken ana VIM, clark against w %.
Aiken captain, g.. s Dole. g. n Judd
ana j. A Reed. Ttis arrangement
was changed later owing o. The arrival
NJ -. y rlomlng ana pa. Peck This
was "honny' judd's introduction ca
polo ana he iiscoyrrri that lhrra were
other requirements besides expert rld-
ing NJ tnr game Tho nnnl score Was
something likr 3 goats in o.
the pnuneuo 'h0ys' arf soon 90 form
"a polo r'up. hAf'ns "a nucleus AZ "a nan
dozen players rhflr BE- illk NJ nrri
practice EHne tomorrow uflrmnnn.
SOCIETY ENENrs
Saturday evening Ma} NJ rprpriri
pafl NAs elNpn 90 No lamNi apol'