Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-06
OFFICER FINDS
HER DIAMONDS
MRS. HOLMES SAYS THE THIEF
RETURNED THEM
Day Brings Rain In City and Snow
on the heMountalns-Brideeroom's
Illness-Pasadena News
Pasadena Agency,
ia East Colorado street

Holmes, living at las North Vernon
Vernon avenue, reported to the police
this morning that she had been robbed
of a valuable diamond brooch and
asked their aid In recovering her prop
erty, saying that asice from its market
value 1t had sentimental value as a
family heirloom. officer Coping was
detailed upon the case. Mrs. Holmes
first missed the piece of jewelry on
Friday and Immediately began to do a
little private detective work, ending
this morning by telling the officer her
suspicious.
The officer first instituted a careful
search of the house and finally in one
corner of an old trunk belonging to
Mrs. Holmes found the missing jew
elry. Mrs. Holmes insists that she did
not put it there and believes that
whoever took 1t from her dressing
table concluded that the game was
too risky and returning, slipped 1t into
her trunk. Having found her property
Mrs. Holmes will be obliged to let
the matter drop.
Snow In the Mountains
At noon today rain began to fall
and has continued with regularity dur
ing the rest of the day. Tonight 1t set
in for a steady downpour. At 10 p. m.
the rain gauge showed a little over a
quarter of an inch. In the mountains
there was quite fall of snow re-
ports from Mount Wilson peak record
ing three inches and from the rest of
the range further north as high as
six inches of snow, with more in i'm
mediate prospect The temperature
on Mount Wilson has gone down as
low as 3S degrees Farenheit.
Club Demands Home
Members Of the unique organization
known as the Tourists club will petit
ton the city council for permission to
open headquarters in Library park.
pagoda shaped building in which they
can assemble daily for their chess and
checker games and desire a quoit-
pitching ground near by. Heretofore
they have eked out a precarious
amusement with temporary quarters
on vacant lots in the business section,
moving whenever their latest home
was sold. If the city will not allow
them to locate in the park they say
they will purchase a lot in a suitable
location and build for themselves.
Groom Suddenly III
Harold Hope Doeg, the young Eng
lish mine owner, whose marriage to
Miss Violet Sutton was to have oc-
CURED last night at the Sutton resi-
dence in this city, was suddenly taken
Ill at Los Angeles Immediately after
dinner, necessitating the postpone-
ment of the wedding hour. The suffer-
ing man was brought to Pasadena last
night and placed under a doctors care
with the result that at an early hour
this morning he was sufficiently recov-
cred to be able to go through the cere-
mony. Mr.. and Mrs. Hope Doeg
left for Santa Barbara early this
morning. as had been arranged. It is
not thought that the groom's illness
is of a serious nature.
Funeral of John r. Slater
The funeral services over the remains
of Deputy Sheriff John r. Slater this
afternoon were largely attended and
doubly impressive. Sheriff Will White
and his deputies were present in a
body. Rev. Isaac Jewell, formerly of
Pasadena, now of Covina, officiated,
while the pail bearers were Byron LislS
and Constable Newell, representing the
Masonic lodge to which he belonged,
Orrin Hayes and w. j. Richards from
the local Knights Templar and Sheriff
White and Deputy Murietto. The body
was cremated.
Dedicated Their Church
South Pasadena Methodists today
dedicated their fine new $25,OOO church
building, the plans for which were first
drafted less than two years ago. The
days exercises began at 10:30 a. m.
with the dedicatory sermon by DR.. e.
r. Ollie of Oakland. In the evening
the Epworth league of the church held
special services, led by 1. j. Reynolds
of Pasadena, Rev. Ollie again preach
ing. The church has a seating capacity
of 1900 and is constructed of wood and
plaster after the designs of Architects
Marsh e. Russell, although the admir-
able arrangements of the edifice was
first sketched by the pastor, Rev. G. w.
Coultas, to whom great credit is due
for the successful completion of the
work.
Pasadena Brevlties
Mrs. Warren Hamlin, who Is prepar-
ing to open class in literature and
journalism this month, will give talk
at La Casa Grande hotel Monday even
ing, November on THE Woman Jour
nalist."
There will be decided opposition at
the council meeting Tuesday to the
sprinkling ordinance which is now be-
fore that body. Merchants generally
oppose the ordinance because they de-
sire the sprinkling of asphalt streets.
Tomorrow evening the Massachusetts
colony will give the second and final
entertainment in their contest at Odd
Fellows hall. One of the interesting
numbers of the program will be a
paper on the history of the colony. All
former residents of that state are in
vited.
Charles Johnson, a painter, living at
1924 Omaha street, Los Angeles, was
severely injured yesterday by coming
in contact with a live wire at the
Pacific Electric power house in this