The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-02-16
ROOMMATE AND MONEY GONE
The Mishap That Befel a Wary
Mans Money
HAD A SHOE FOR HIS SAFE
Mr.. Harding Of San Bernardino Lose.
His Cash
Picked Oranges for the East and Europe.
Very Successful Amateur
Entertainment

San Bernardino Feb. 15.-No word has
yet been heard of w. G. Sutherland, j. H.
Harding's levanting roommate, who dis
appeared with $14S of Hardings money
yesterday morning. The young men oc-
cupied suite at Southern Hotel, and
Harding drew some money from the bank
Wednesday, intending to take a trip to
the North that night; he put the money
in his shoe for safe keeping. Yesterday
morning Sutherland and the money were
both missing and it is supposed they went
together.
Sutherland's grip was found under a
.culvert near the Santa Fe track and
street, and it is supposed he boarded a
morning train and was unable to take it
along with him. The officers have tele-
graphed in every direction, but as yet
have no trace of either roommate or
money.
}. j. Valentine, president of Wells,
Fargo & Co.. has Just placed an order for
175 half boxes of Highland oranges, to be
packed and shipped to personal friends in
the East and Europe. The order was in
trusted TO A. $. Hawley, manager of the
Highland Fruit Exchange, and they will
be shipped to New York early next week
and transhipped thence to Europe.
Work on the City Park began this morn
ing. Trees are being removed, and the
work of laying out the city's pleasure
ground will be in the hands of an expert
gardener. Part of the work is being done
by Marshal Phelps changing of tramps.
The most successful amateur entertain
ment ever given in this city was that rem
dered by the Bellies of Blackville last
night, for the benefit of the Woman S
Guild OF st. Johns Episcopal Church.
The performance was surprise alike to
the immense audience which packed the
immense opera house in every part, to the
friends who had watched the rehearsals,
to the ladies in charge of the Bellies them
selves. Until the audience was before
them the young ladies had no idea that
they could give perfect performance-one
that entirely satisfied the love for good
negro music, healthful humor and chaste
fun. Their success was complete and in
stantaneous
more sympathetic, good natured au-
dience could not be imagined. There was
warm reception when the curtain rose
and revealed the semi-circle of MINISTRIES
clad in Elton jackets, white shirts, broad
collars, and black skirts, which reached to
the shoe-tops. They caught the house
with the opening chorus, and from that
until the curtain went down at the close
of the cake walk the audience did nothing
but to laugh and applaud, and with the
latter they were prodigal.
The company was composed Of the fol-
lowing: Mrs. L. T. Eggers, Mrs. G. W.
Lysle, Mrs. E. R.waite, Mrs. JILL Sweesy,
Mrs. VIM. Menzel, Misses Sloat, Robin
son, Sweesy, Minnie Cole, Frances An
derson Schermerhorn, Mary Lewis, Clara
lawson, Horowitz, Golding, Mildred
Waters, Jennie G. Willis, Lille Vale, Mer-
edith, Riley, Laura Riley, Addie Mee
Shirley, Rousseau, Allison, Mary Allison
Foster, Nellie Brown, Nellie Grosvenor
and Little Leon Hillyer
They were also assisted by Miss Har-
rette True Regain of San Diego, cele-
brated whistler, and Miss May Gleason, of
Lawrence, Kansas, who recited and
danced the mnuet beautifully. The work
of arranging, drilling, rehearsing and
staging the performance was in the hands
of Lieutenant o. P. Sloat and to him is
due the credit for the success of these fea-
lures of the entertainment
The audience was the best which has
assembled in the Opera House in recent
years. The society people of the town
turned out en- masse, determined to make
the entertainment success financially as
well as artistically.