Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-22
HEARD AROUND
THE CORRIDORS
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tended by accidents and mlSnapS
that would make the average traveller
lie down by the wayside. former Mayor
Fred Eato and his bride arrived at the
Angelus yesterday morning
Since their marriage, almost three
months ago, they have been in the
Owens river country, where Mr.. Eaton
is in the city employ.
They made their headquarters at In
dependence and Sunday they left there
for Los Angeles.
1T was long trip and am rather
weary, though we had a very interest
ing time" said Mrs. Eaton yesterday
afternoon at the hotel.
Mr.. Eaton Is out, and I fear that I
am too tired to say anything of especial
interest. 1t was Just one long series of
breakdowns until we thought we never
would get here.
ION Sunday we went from Independ-
enoe to Lone Pine, which is the next
town. San Juan day was being cele-
brated there, and we stopped long
enough TO see some of the festivities,
and pushed on to Cottonwood creek.
There our troubles began. We had
breakdown and had to stay all night at
Cottonwood ranch The next morning
we started off again and got as far as
Alancha, which Is the town at the end
of Owens lake, when something again
'went wrong with the machine. From
that time until 10 o'clock the next day.
which was Wednesday, we were stuck
there.
We had passed the night in an adobe,
and when we finally pushed on we sue
ceeded in getting to Little lake, where
a woman and her daughter have a goat
ranch. We did not mind the wait there.
as the ranch was Il wonderful sight.
The mother and daughter manage the
place alone and they have 1000 Angora
goats. There is not another house
within sixteen miles. The home is a
quaint one. built in 40, and the daugh-
ter is one of the most beautiful girls I
have ever seen.
From Little lake we started for In
dian wells and we decided to travel all
night. Before we had gone far our
lights went out and we did not dare
go on. We sat up in the automobile all
night and patiently waited for dawn to
come. AS result am convinced that
an automobile was never intended as a
place for sleeping. BY the time dawn
came we We're so cold that we had to
get out and build a fire to thaw our
selves out before we could go on.
Indian wells is beautiful little
oasis in the desert and we were the
HdppleSl peOple lIldSllldDle WHeIl we
arrived there. A Mexican woman has
planted trees and a garden, and a
spring comes up fresh and cool. On
the desert it was unbearably hot and
we needed no second Invitation to rest.
Coyote holes is the next stop, and
there lives the angel of the desert
She is a New England woman who
grows her own vegetables and cooks
real New England dinner.
'tyVa oot into MnjaUe last NIGHT and
waited there for the Owl You may be
sure we rejoiced to see Los Angeles
again.
LOS Angeles people have no idea
what the Owens river country is like.
One who has not been there could
hardly picture the beautiful country.
Everywhere there are streams of cool,
clear water, and the methods of living
are SO quaint one would almost imagine
one was living in another age. The
people there are primitive, and there
| is no way of getting from one place to
another except on horseback or in a
| blackboard.
I'VE rode twenty miles on horseback
every day and some etimes farther. The
life was entirely out of doors. and
never saw such a fine place for outdoor
sports. tits pity it is so inaccessible
to the outside world, for it would I'M
dOubtedly be great place for sports
men,"
Mr. and Mrs. Eaton will rest here for
short time and they will later return
to Independence.
The following is a monoogue deliv-
cred by Andrew S. Lee, the popular
chief clerk at the Lankershin, yester-
day:
:Well, let me see, who is who and
what is what? That's what you want
to know" And he pulled the register
toward him.
To-day we have H. e. Doolittle of
San Diego. Mr.. Doolittle has come to
Los Angeles to do much, but whether
he will do much or do little remains to
be seen.
"There is Mr.. Doolittle, and then, too,
there is 1. J. Callander of San Fran
cisco. He is proving a regular calen-
der to us, for he comes just once a
pear we Immediately think the 21st.
No, there are no diamond robberies to-
day. and the bellboys are all of them
alive and in the best of spirits.
How much do you think Mr.. Lee
ought to be fined for taking poor, de-
fenseless eavesdroppers so unaware?
The preface to the wedding of Capt.
Henry E. Lawrence, who was married
a few evenings ago and took his bride
to the Angelus, came to light yesterday
just as the captain was beginning to
think he was going to escape being jol-
lied
1t develops that Captain Lawrence,
who, by the way, is a wealthy mining
man retired to a lemon ranch near
Whittier, has a penchant for putting
things in out of the way places and
forgetting them.
Captain Lawrence secured his license
and carried it to his room at the An
gelus. He was very careful to see that
he put 1t in a safe place where nc could
find it in the evening.
When it came time to go out to the
home of some friends where the BRIDE
to-be was visiting, the captain was
impa tient to be there and he started
forth. When he got as far as the front
corridor he felt in his pocket to see If
the license was safe and found that it
was not there. He went back to his
room, and to his horror discovered
he had put the document away so
safely he could not find II.
A search was instituted and bell
boy came to the rescue. After all the
captains possessions had been pulled
out of their resting places and every
bit of furniture in the room had been