The herald., 1897-12-24
LOS ANGELES COUNTY
PASADENA


PASADENA, Dec. 23.-CRegular Cor
respondence) The Pasadena Country
club, composed of seventy gentlemen Is
perfecting it's plans and preparations
for a polo and tennis ground and other
club facilities. The contract was let to
c. N. Stanley for the erection of club
house to cost $4,000. Work will be begun
on the house next Monday. 1t will be
two stories with projecting gables, DOR
mer windows and wide piazzas and Will
be built on the edge of the hill south
east of town overlooking Wilson's lake.
The outside will be shingled and in the
interior will be billiard room, dining
room, paror smoking room, lockers,
shower bath rooms. ladies' parlor kitch-
en-, etc. This handsome house will be
built on Ga acres Of gronud owned by
the club and surrounded by about 1So
acres which the members have leased.
The golf links will be ready for play as
soon as a rain comes. Two tennis courts
will be made, as will bowling alley
and shooting range.
PEDDLERS ARRESTED
A. C. Miller was arrested today by
Marshal Lacey on North Los Robles av-
enue for peddling sewing machine oil
without license. When searched s2461
in money and the following articles We're
found on his person: Two small loose
diamonds in a paper in a purse; one
plain gold ring, several COMBS a har-
monica. one gentleman's gold ring. but
tons, knife, ribbon, copy of The Signs
of the Times, copy of the Riverside
q n nrlf, foJ l.,
note book and letters, old bills, several
tobacco bags, a picture, a California
diamond stickpin and a set of shirt studs.
He appeared before the recorder, who
fined him $40 for peddling, which he paid
A man and boy, giving their names
as John Dough and Peter Smith, were
arrested this afternoon and charged
with peddling without license. They
We're selling colored baskets manufac-
tured from cambric and claim that as
they manufacture these they do not
break the law The men do their work
In a barn on Ellis avenue near the rail-
road track. This being outside the CITY
limits, the baskets are not home pro-
ducts. Dough and Smith are regarded
as assumed names. The men pleaded
not guilty and will be tried next Thurs
day.
A CHALLENGE ACCEPTED
i hereby accept the challenge of Mr..
A. Z. Baldwin to take the mega tive to his
question for debate, ie, Drunkenness
is the greatest cause of poverty and
crime and of danger to national life,
take the ground that competition is nor
only the greater cause of these. but is
n ,1ra,,
vlte the gentlemans correspondenca
L. LUX.
4l6 Turner street. Los Angeles. Cal"
crown City Council, No. 4, of the
American Fraternal league, met on
wednesday eveing in G.. a. r. hall and
closed its charter with over sixty MEM
pers. The following officers were elect
ed: Past president, Mrs Mary f
Rogers; president, DR.. j. w. Laird.
senior vice, Mrs J. w. Jaird junior vice.
Louis A. Dunn; secretary. A. NJ. Elson
financial secretary, j. F. Halstead:
treasurer, Mrs. Emma Beal: conductor.
Mrs. Kate Halstead; guide Mrs. Hattie
Elson; watchman, Mrs. NJ ]. Lohmeyer.
sentinel, Mrs. d. p. Hester.
"A collection was taken up this morning
by Rev. Il. l.. Conger for the purchase of
stove for Miss Cleveland, whose home
was destroyed by fire few weeks ago.
Enough money to buy the stove and
some fuel was collected. Mrs. Cleve-
land is now living in little cottage on
the lot where the house was burned.
The six children are being cared for nv
her.
P. H. Mackie and William Glass have
haav 11t Cd
dredger. BY means Of a windlass two
men can operate this drcdger, bringing
up dirt from the bottom of a river The
machine has an automatic device which
keeps the dirt from escaping when being
drawn up. The device is expected to sell
well in Seattle and other mining head
quarters.
The fact that ice over an inch in thick
ness formed a night or two ago on the
pond above the submerged dam al
Devils Gate testifes to the coldness of
the wather of late. This ice during the
coolest spell was strong enough to hold
heavy man.
Last evening at the meeting Of the En-
dowment rank. which is the insurance
section of the Knights of Pythias, the fol-
lowing officers were chosen for the en-
suing year Thos. y. Alln. president:
Chas. II. Stratton. vice president: A. +.
secretary.
j. II. Darling, arrested for vagrancy
by Marshal Lacey. was today sentenced
to serve ten days in the county Jail by
Justice Merriam. Accordingly Deputy
Constable Sam Wallis took him down to
the city this evening.