The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 26, 1899, Page 17

the histo only threw a deeper myste parentag From a baby s Indian chi for pla been raised by r sold her into Snowball and wife. her histor T became infatuated with her -and also saw in her a possible heir to the Peralta grant. I induced her to accom- pany me and returned to San Frans Do b 2 S o o o o o o o o o o o o g S Srnm bal it T + 0 : . o. de @ factory showing + tost - ERALTA« [ of SFuert] le (whict ad forged 3 toriisd 5 | with th + G,;Q; + 3 I?EAVlfi John W ed c to go to + the St + \ € g pleting the - . 3 ok H °§ lands B 34 A\ To- I had a guarantee - + :~\ e W e = 7 n New Mexico. 4 (Continued on Page Thirty-Two.) R S e e S e e R T S J G ; veievende y d returned to St. rpsed since I had I received a letter reciting the death and proposing that I matter. 1 th her and my money ran on the Los Subsequently I work- ccess in these that later How mE-1DEA oF _THEFGREAT |AND ‘TRAUD ORIGINATED BESIE. A REMOTE ,CAMP-FIRE 1M: ARIZONA - I went immediately to Arizona and did also Don Antonlo Pablo Peralta. / there, after much patient research and The only other Mexican, Don I 1 a trip to Me: leg the the Machado of Ros: er Califi . purel; The affirmed that a Spaniard named M 2d. The Pablo, ing's tale bet- ’ Willing title wa . rthical. 3 way of it w 3 1564, a made the d 4 W in Black Cany Yave - was more that of Di zona, there sted a mining camp, the suited the hero of V principal persons of the camp being ter than Miguel Pe 5 Dr. George M. Willing. of St. Louis, Willing represented that he Don Antonio Pablo Peralta, his son given a pack train of sixteen T Miguel Peralta, Don Jose Ybarra, M. valued at $22,000, for th Bernatto Guiness, Don Rafael Ma- cites in a nutshell all I chado, Don Manuel Ramon and about the grant. Charles Lovejoy, a friend of Willing. Becoming certain that Pinalto, the Among these originated the idea of the name given as the maker of the deed, Peralta grant. Another mythical per- was a myth, I forged the documents son executed a deed of this parole S to shift the title into_the Pe- grant to Dr. Willing, the paper recit- ralta fam ing that the grant had been ceded to became the father of the maker of .the deed thata by the King of Spain for military serv- do. After considering the matter se ices in 1758 and that he had been forc- eral months I decided to again shift t ed to abandon it on account of hostile title into some noble family of Spain Indians. . It embraced 300 square that had become extinct. jeagues of land located along the Gila In the meantime I traveled much in River, thirty leagues from east to west, the towns where I could gain informa- by ten leagues wide, resting its western tion concerning the men who might be ed on daily papers in San Francisco the Southern Pacific raflroad was then border upon the eastern line of the interested in this title. I talked with and all the prominent extreme West- at its height.. The Southern Pacific Pima reservation. old residents and stored my mind with two more ern papers. During these months the right of way. as surveyed ran through _One of the alleged witnesses, M. many incidents that proved of great home land grant was in my memory but I the Peralta grant. I went to Hunting- Bernatto Guiness, was a Frenchman value in later years. But I will pass n to see did-not have the means to examine ton, Stanford and Crocker with the who afterward located in business in quickly over this period and come down me and to appease my conscience I further into the matter. Willing 'title and they advanced mz Los Angeles, Cal, but died before he to the time when the great fraud as it placed what means I had accumulated The contest between Jay Gould ard, moneyv to.tracs.iis othantinity - explained his part in the matter, as was presented to the Government be- uld determine tate office in nd told me that he had’ a sulous proportions in d me to ‘take hold of of Interviews:I do &) HNE °F REAVIS'S PURCHASED ANCESTORS. - ‘ num e in their n to start for the ay completely andon ‘the trip. rs T remained an invalid s home {n Vernon Coun dream two y without pr Onece in Cali and af!