The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 26, 1899, Page 32

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 26, 1899. @egosvocoonag iFree to out’ s o9ae XYY RS 5] h S ot ¢} ¢ 3 ¢ The new: | fiCAw\ogueé\ \31S PICWURESE bo Hale’s. _ Hale’s, ! The New Colors. As seen in Paris, New York and San Fran- clsco. Royal purple, reds and pinks, reflecting a crimson tint, distinct blues and greens, salmon, pale golden yellow, tobacco and Maryland browns, silver gray and beige seem to lead in millinery in New York. Parls does not favor a*combination of colors. In millinery, for instance, the hat must be all one {int. Pale biue, mauve, violet and Bor- deaux red, pink, green and beige and the deep violet seem to have the preference. Ban Francisco. Our milllnery manager (who has just returned from the East) states she is almost unable to make enough hats in royal purple to supply the demand. The Easter List The hundred and one little needs that go the old one. Ribbons. Six thousand yards! 4500 yards of the lot just snapped up in > York. The whirligig of luck threw them our way. A maker wanted cash, we took all we could get—I500 yards of No. 40 and 60, plain taffeta only, we had in stock at 15¢ and 1% yard—all together—molre or plain taffeta—pure silk: 1 inch wide..... Be yd|2% inch wide..10c yd 1% inch wide... Be yd|2% inch wide.12%e vd 1% Inch wide...10¢ yd 8% inch wide..12%¢ yd 1% inch wide...10¢ yd|¢ inch wide....12te yd Stripes, Dresden warp prints, Plisse Pin dots and rajsed cord stripes prevail Royal purple seems to have taken a stand in | | Valenciennes Lace. | demands an abundance of Hale’s. Our Millinery Success. Our millinery success, in spite of the weather, has far exceeded our last year's results. Workrooms busy and orders in advance. 3 Salesrooms rich with the daintiest headgear the most successtul milliners in our ety can_evolve. Exhibits show a wealth of exquisite novelties, some Parisian (decidedly Frenchy), oth- ers bristling from brim to crown with London style, and still others of Yankee creation. Verily, it's a beauty show, an exhibit we are proud of. The windows show increased attractiveness as Eastertide draws near. This week an Easter window—the swellest we have ever shown—and in an adjoining display dainty hats seem to vie with each other in thelr efforts to attract the passerby. A Few Newcomers of the Swell Scct. The Little Things. to make the new gown prettier or brighten up Silks—Dress Goods. page to tell the story. 2133 doz. yds. of French Valenciennes. Fashion lace and filigree. Seldom that style and low price go hand in hand, but here’s the exception. A quick de- clsion_landed the lot one day last month in New York: 20c¢, 25c, 30c, 35¢c, 40c, 45c, 5Oc, G5c and 60c per dozen yards. browns, myrtle and sapphire.. OMBRE STRIPES—(a new silk), helios, mode: reseda, etc., a vanguard of styles to come. CAMEO-STRIPED SII grounds, inch. rich shadings from dark to light, .$1.2: 18-Inch white silk, 1tberty black chenille Tailor-made suits.. .865 Appliqued taffetas, silk for fronts. = < 7 % e d handkerchiefs, pleces of Separate silk_ skiris. .im: s #6 and $G.50 yara | lase trimmed handkerch ets, Dives ne Golf capes . (825 | Hand-made chenlle veiling -81.50 yard | -Jalnty dace, Boo & for the adornment | Silk underskiris $27.50 | Silk kid fitting corsets. B7.50 each | L0 ATUICI O etc. These presents Striped taffetas, walst lengths.......812 length | White organdies . 18100 yara | Of Bats, bonme S a with some catd or A few of the new arrivals. "Twould take the A SILK-STRIPED TAFFETA—19 inch, navy, 75¢ yard LK—On heavy mnnzui yard Eastertide in Paris, We quote from the *‘Dry Goods Econo- | mist” of March 1lth. | PARIS, March 1, 1809. | The fashion of making presents at | Fastertide has grown so gemeral in Parls that in this respect it is a for- | midable rival of New Year's. The only rule observed being that the presents must in some manner recall the form | of an egg and thus bear out their name | of “beufs de Paques’ (Easter exg). | Much ingenuity is displayed to attain this result. Easter offerings consist of all deserip- | tions of articles from gloves, ~dainty | | box conveying the idea of an Easter egg. Hudnut’s Famous Perfumes. The Richard Hudnut Totlet prepara- | tions are already too well known for us the new invoice to sing thelr merits; ready to-morrow. Hudnut's Perfumes (10 new odors) Hudnut's Creams (2 new kinds); Hu; nut's Face Preparations (Hudnutine and | s, | Almond Meal); Hudnut's Toilet Powders ©| (3 new arrivals); Hudnut's _Tooth | Washes (2 new kinds); Hudnut's Eau d Quinine.—In all 35 toilet preparations. | saving housewife in San Francisco. | Christmas. Easter History. Interesting facts, known, regardin the the the emblem of the rising up in the same manne entombed, as it were, in egg, is {n due time brought to life. Stalning the egg with a red color— in memory of the blood of Christ shed at tha time of his crucifixion. sia men embrace on Easter d glve each other an egg, saying, Christ is risen.”” A toke joicing and love. On Easter day the heads eggs to the church to In olden times the was celebrated with and sports; chief a as now, was the eggs, which boy down some grassy broke, the one wha longest being the o of the otk opular Antiquities ¥ Book of Days. Easter Stockin The French stockings as interesting as stockings? BLACK ., Maco Cotton double sole COTTON BLACK either plain or LISLE HOSE Rembr: fin soles LADIES' 25¢ 3¢ pair.) Hale’s Domestic Store. It is study and investigation that will prove profitable. by experts, with the requisites .of our S ey Eastertide in the Clofik Sore. misses; th pe cannot tell of the vle $12.¢ to sell 50 to $25 thin we do expect we exp to sell a; tai pattern’ garments ench flannel, lace and all over them; the price . comfort so e to obtain;_this last lot ; ©c0050u0as - P2 R | These {tems d; eelections have %P Bu thing more the new Easter Suit its proper fit. t | HALE'S short under arms ly boned with nch sateen cove: and on hip, horn bone, 2 °d; lace an ON Fr med DOLLAR t | FRENCH BIAS CUT ( 3 1 cov-| 4 hooks, coraline boned ned 2 eels; covered with black Itallan ONE TWENTY-FIVE| .. 3 s ‘ cless ‘thought. We have e who of corset fitting. Suppose Our n Francisco demands in select an outer gar- popular shades seem to be plain tans, or the fit nor_the color; | each every, skirt a large proportion). | $> to $40 each stor, mode or pe: ©....815 and $16.50 each ribbon trimmed; all 25 ith new points of prettiness about them, at the same egins 75¢ and ends at $1.25 KID FITTING—French cut, 4 hooks, long waist, | side steels ribbon_tri 2 DOLLAR FIF )RSET—Short length, 2 rust proof side | cloth.... * TWO DOLLARS | erts to serve you you advise From 20c¢ to 50c yard. ribbons, 6%e to 1Zie vard. Fashion ever demanded. Handkerchiefs. The Easter day kerchief. Alsle 1. silk gimp, 63%¢ yard and up. New Neckwear. The Narrow draw-string Belt buckles in most any shape or size Mother As necessary, most, a& your hat, but it's even chances y For edging collars and children’s coats, white “Zaza" is the latest New York favorite. It is a three-fold stock with 7-inch plaid rib- -1 bon for bow and long ends, $2.50.°Same in [ White muslin pillow shams, taffeta silk and lace galoon trimming. $1.50. | hemmed.......... . . Lace and liberty silk jabots. S50e to §1 223 Satin stock collars with narre rring and nd §1.25 each 18-inch o black or white. 2| White corded taffeta silk, '} | sola thread ; forget it.” Why not save a little, by the way Here's a list: Sreer Ecru Point de Venise allover for f All linen, hemstitched.... 20¢ each [ ‘nches Wide e s e DOS to BEB0 Yars All linen, hemstitched, hand drawn....50c each = | All linen, embroidered 28¢ to $2.530 | New vellings, chenille dotted sewing stlk, Scaris and Shams. Tambour pillow sham: SanFrancisco’s greatest mail-order house 987-989-941-943-945-947 Market Street. VAN AN AN ANAAAN AN AN A A A AN AN A A A A NN nwork, applique, chiffon all over, .$3.50 yard Fancy corded and tucked taffeta eilks. 81.10 and §2.00 embroidered with $5.00 yard Black and cream-colored silk butterfiies...... .....2Be and 5Oe each stamped and ....25¢ pair openwork centers and stripe, yard $1.00 | SWIVEL STRIPES—A ninety-nine novelty in < jst silk, the stripe raised up on the rich White liberty silk, 1ight blue or white shirred | tuf thie season. | gprpul® UOOF %1 ur.sg taffeta background $1.50 yard TAILOR SUITINGS — cloth, new blues, greens, 52 inch........ atin-finished inch . CORKSCREW TWILLS blues and greens, 44 inch GRANITE SUITING—A hard-finished in new weaves, swell for a tailor gown, Duchess lace handkerchiefs....... 8120 to $10 | narrow iibety i eigie o whiinE, sk : prlI?eN\ necessary to pay more than Hale's | brown, new blue and na % inciveca e sn i R tures SIS EO R 65 Cents Each. 561 wrappers in dight and medium fitting- waist is well lined; w. oo Borders, aexaR Ao Sl e .75¢ pair || In front and back; sizes 34 to 40; White spangle netting, cup spangle and cen- | [ width and thoroughly well made; ter bead, a decided novelty for dress fronts.... | Tambour scarfs, openwork center and bor- || €ach until all are sold. S 3 ....83 to $6 yard | der. . 35c each Some Inferesting Statistics About a Growing Business. We bave 2610 15- demands there. We Hale's are 2% times as lary and 2000 square feet so far in 189 they were Over 00 pounds of new goods received The sales checks used in the month of December in our ocean, back (“in countermarch’’) to the ferry We bave on hand over 22 left. Over 17 miley We used in our S to the suburbs of Carson City. of narrow Val ans, mod; and gray. HEAVY TWILLS—A swell taflor gown mix- ture in gray, green, brown and blue effects, 43 ceeen.. 8160 yard —A fine twill n sum- mer weights, the latest effects in grays, browns, ...$1.00 yard Flannelette Wrapper Sale. ors; small and medium designs: the tight brald trimmed miles of thread on hand or enough to reach from here to St ave over 120 miles of ribbon on hand (2 000 cakes of soap, or enough to last all the t lace received from the French importers since January n Francisco store in the year 1898 1,266,880 running feet of Wrapping paper, -HOU covert AND LODGIN yard 840 U made particularly for hotel use. 25¢ each B4x50 £1x90 9090 inches inches. inches. ade to withstand heavy and to show 1 | suiting | inches. -42ie each brown, | inche Tize 0 yard 90x90 inches 5 ; 624 OLD PILLOW CASES, odds and lot high-grade of 10¢ each ch es, extra quality. col- NCH CR border, 10 il -INCH SH vard 850 WASH 20¢ W- LIN woven stripe: and Michael enough to reach froi 183 bol and still growing. Added rs ag since January 1 back again, up Market, past nce > KEET advise an early call on both these lots BLEACHED SHEETS, 2-inch hem, 3500 HOTEL SHEETS, heavy double wa absolutely straight), dry ironed, hand torn, 2-inch hem, e appearance after the laundry). WHITE CONFIRMATION HOSE— White Cotton. White Lisle....... % White Silk..... z $1.75 | IMPORTED HOS ! | “portation just re ze | direct from the nan manufactus the famous dye; 140 doze double knee ¢ ' t ings; sell & S $ | Ladies’ s The department that made “‘Hale’s Good G famous. The department that started our expansion policy. A tection to be studled by every careful and 50 square f an Francisco store if put end to e i Hale's to T win P mps in the United States'a m January 1. S—A SHEET SALE TO INTEREST a sheet for wear and not for beauty, 63x90 inch 72x30 inel 30c each rp (prevents ripping), frequent washings (we 72x90 81x90 inches. inches.... 2ic each 37%¢ each IN | © The new st | pair in anl A Esprit effec 3 yardsx40_inche: 31 vardsxi4 inches 1y_to-morrow, 1400 , floral and Point yardsxso in 3 - | LACE C wide, row fishnet d y STRIPE 40 inches wide with enough left to supply all necessary t in 1597, 9350 square feet in 1898, nd would reach from the ferry to the cak and have 23000 cak 240 miles, enough to reach from here 255 square feet given to an exclusive window display of millinery this week. SERVICES THIS DAY AT THE CHUECHES First Baptist Church, Eddy street, near | Morning—Sermon by Rev. Dr. Putnam of © First Presbyterian, Van Ness avenue and | Morning—Services at 11; Sunday school at Jones—Kev. E. A. Wocds. New York. Evening—*'The Three Crosses.’ & Sacramento street—Rev. R. Mackenzle. 1245 p. m; Y. P. 8. C. E. at 6:15 p. m. - = — > Evening—"The Changes in Protestant- St. Luke's, Vi avenue -and Clay | y comunion and sermon by © fsm.”’ street—Bishop Moreland Shaw. Evening—United service © £ erhood of St. Andrew, with ad- © First United Presbyterian Church, Golden | Morning — ‘‘Co-operation John W. Wood of New York. & & Gate avenue and Polk street—Rev. H. H.| Evening—"Look and Liv — — & & Bell Sabbath 12:30 D > by pastor. Evening— & & church; 2:30 p. m., manse ¢ 22 Christian Endeavor Juniors; | % | Morping—Services. Evenlng—Sermon by the © & Memorial Presbyterlan, Eighteenth and | ‘The Conquering King. & Rev. Richard: Tiader of Stockholm.(Swe- &,¢ [Raliroad avenues—Rev. X N: Bevier ing—'"The Spirit in the Believer. % den . — e & = @ Trinity Presbyterian, Twenty-third and | Morning—''Compagison of the Fruits of ® Morning—""The Gospel of Christ’”’ Even- & Capp streets—Rev. Alex. N. Carson. Gospel and of Infidelity.” Evening—'The ® ing—"The Sin Friend. & | Unessentials and the Essentials to the 3 - — = — - Success of the Church.” art street, near lessed Are the Poor in Heart. = & J. G. Gibson. | —“The Rich He Hath Sent Empty Calvary Presbyterlan, Powell and Geary | Morning—Sermon the pastor. Evening * streets—Rev. J. Hemphill. O adress by Mra. Ballington Booth of {he © = = = = Salvation Army. < I, Van Ness avenue and | Morning—Blessing and distribution of palm: ® Rev. J. J. Prendergast, [~ by Archbishop Riordan before high mass Second Unitaran, Twentieth and Capp | Morning—"Does the Power That Rules ® devotiens of the Calvarian Soclety at o'clock; sermon by Rev. P. E. Mulligan. Everinz—Blessing of palms by the Arch- bishop at § o'clock. Ignatius, Van Ness avenue and Hayes | street—Jesuit Fathers Morninz—Distribution of palms and proces- sion and high mass. Evening—Rev. Father Woods will deliver the sermon in prepar- ation for the consecratjon of the twen- tieth century to the Lord. streets—Rev, A. J. Wells. ivening—Sermon by the Brooks. Care for Us Rev. Stafford W. First Unitarlan, southwest corner Geary | Morning—A palm Sunday sermon, by Dr. and Franklin streets—Rev. Dr. Stebbins, Brooke. Evening—There is no evening ser- emeritus; Rev. Stopford W. Brooke. vice. German Evarngelical Emmanuel Churrh,"Mnrmng—(‘onnrmmlnn: Christ Entering Twelfth and Stevenson strects—Rev. F. | Jerusalem.” Evening—'The Kingship of ~ cher. Jesus."” West Scott Side Rev. streat, near | Morning-— e Beggar at the Gate.”” Even- ing—""A City of Refuge.” Christian, W, W. W £ d Ye Would Not.”” Evening— Ye Now Belleve? Morn, Do Morning—*‘Prayer as a Continual Privilege 1 Obligation.” Evening—*Confession of glon.” Seventli avenue P. Coombe. gational, and Clement street—Rev. First English Lutheran, Geary street, near Gough—Rev. E. Nelander. Morning—Confirmation sermon by the p tor, followed by rite of confirmation. Evening—'‘A Wonderful Praye: Y. M. C. A. Auditorium, Mason and Ellis streets, £ pecial meeting for women only, presided over by R, S. Boyns, general se: retary of the Sacramento Young Men' Christian _ Association; address by Rev. Richard Tjader. Third Congregational, Fifteenth street. near SP99999900 000D 90D S0 Mission—Rev. W m Rader. First Congregational, and Mason | Morning — Unio meoting_of _all @ streets—Rev. George C. Adams. churches at 9 o : address by D, L. b4 | 3p and ‘mass meeting for b4 i address by Mr. M b4 o @ St Stephens, Fillmore and Fulton streets— | Morning—Holy commu Rev. J. Lion. ‘f morning prayer at 11 St. Stephen's Miss 12 Hayes street— | MorningSunday Rev. D. O Kellay. Evening- Morning—Prayer "at 11 o'clock. Evening. Story of the Cros: ., Sixth_avenue and Clem- mond—Rev. 'S. J. Lee, Simpson Memorial, corner Ha: chanan streets—Rev. John > St. James Missi ) ent street, Ric s and Bu- Morning—"‘The Triumph of Christ”; §:30, phens. Epworth _League devotional * meeting. Svening—Miss Henrletta Bancroft, _the fleld secretary of the Women's Home Mis- slonary Soclety, will deliver an address. Morning—*‘Revivals. " Stewart Memorial U. P. Church. Guerrero 8 Ev = street, near Twenty-third—Rev. W. E. | ist Moody and 1iis Worl o Cversel Bethel African M Jackson—Rev. W Powell street, Anderson. Dugan. | | near | Morning—*‘Christ Our Prophet.” Deborah the Prophetess.” < Evening-- hurch, Epworth M. urch and Twen- | Morning—Sermon by the pasfor; 2:30 p. m., ty-sixth streets—Rev. W. M. Woodwarti. meeting at City and. ‘County Hospltal e _ | Evening—Public worship and sermon. Fifteenth Avenue M. E. Church, Fifteenth | ao, e Pread = 5 avenue south and P street—Rev. W. D. | ingotame o cliN8 by the pastor. Even- Crabb. \ California Street M. E. Church, California | Morning—*The Conqueror from FEdom.” ‘and Broderick streets-—Frederic C. Lee. Evening—"David and Nabal—Capital Labor.” Grace Methodist Episcopal, Twenty-first | and Capp streets—Rev. J. N. Beard. secretary of Deaconess Bureau of t | H. M. S. will deliver an address. Even- Ing A" Plateau and the Ranges Be- yond." st M. E. Powell street—Rev. W. S rmon by the pastor. Evening rmy. bundant _ Lifa, ent of Our Op- M. E. Church. Tennessee and Sola- P rtveets—iav. 8. M. Woodward. to Do Good Central Methodist Episcopal Church, Mis- slon street, between Fifth and Sixth— Rev. C. E.’ Locke. Morning—"One of the Joscphs' two of serles. Fvening—'Some and What They Have Done.’”” Morning—"‘Church Expansion.” Requirements of Patriotism angled Banner” will be sung by abel Perkin Number Cranks d Methodist Episcopal, 643 How- H::’dunnez—i{ev. John A. B. Wilson. Trinity Methodist, corner Market, Six feenth and.Noe streats—Rev. Thomas Il Woodward. Westmimster Presbyterian, Page and Web ster etrests—Rev. S. S, Cryor. BE88D D0 90600 D 900 S 606 © 00 HEVOVDO 00D SISO POPVOOPPOLIPPIVVIPOVOOQ > @ & 54 > ® & POPOPOOO DD ; > O OO b 44 S04 P390 900890900 02909 POOOOOOS POOOODHIOOPPOOOS streets—Rev. T. K. Tryden. Reformed Church, Twentleth and Dolores | Morning— “Triumphant Entr: Sermon by pastor. Evening— PPISVPPOOVOPOODOOPIODOPOV VOV HPOROPOPIOTOIQ B0 0000000060 +0 00450060+ 0e0s0e>ebde0e® CONFESSION OF REAVIS Continued from Page Seventeen. month and earned additional money as a correspondent for San Francisco and New York newspapers. In Spain I gained admittance to the archives under the pretext that I was hunting up newspaper stories. During many months I searched these archives and pondered over the thing. that the Peralta family was extinct and that the Peraltas in Arizona and Mexico were descendants of the ser- vants of the family who had taken the name of the house. One day as 1 was making the rounds of the curio shops I came across two ivory portraits of great excellence, evi- dently a husband and wife of Spanish nobility belonging to the period closing the eighteenth century. I purchased these pictures and they were the found- ation upon which I built the mythical superstructure that all but stood against the efforts of the Government and the great expenditures of money to tear it down. i I told my wife—for after coming to Spain I had legally married this Span- ish beauty, having lived until then un- der a secret marriage agreement—that these portraits were of her great-grand- parents. H Now the reader must understand that my investigations had proven that no grant existed, and that there had been a noble family in Spain named Peralta that was rfow extinct. Therefore, with these two pictures I pushéd aside the mass of: forgeries that I had accumu- lated around “the Willing title,” ignored all the past thecries and start. ed out entirely anew. First 1 traced the history of the Peralta family and found - that the name originated in a title Pera (a pear) alta (high), Peralta signifying a high pear. The family originated in con- ferring a dukedom upon one Enrique Carrillo. I found | | Then I selected another defunct family named Silva and made my hero the issue of these families and called him Silva de Peralta. I made the records show that in the winter of '61 and ’62 the second baron was compelled to abandon Sonora on account of the French invasion, and thereupon set out for Spain via Los Angeles and San Francisco. In the meantime—May 1, 1822—he had mar- ried and to him was born a daughter who married Don Jose Ramon Carmen Maso y Castillo September 20, 1858. With this daughter and her husband he set out upon his journey. were delayed at the crossing of the Santa Ana River near San Bernardino, Cal,, by the excessive floods of that season, where there was born of the daughter a pair of twins, a girl and boy. The latter and mother were buried in one coffin at San Sal- vador. The father proceeded en route to San Francisco. This child surviv- ing was christened Sofia Loreto Mi- caila Maso y Silva de Peralta. Such was the mythical lineage I built for my Spanish bride. You may won- der how I was able to prove all these detalls that happened in this genera- tion. I will tell you how. I had visited towns in California in which I laid the early history of my wife. I talked with old settlers and found that there had been these incidents in the past and then I buflt the story of my wife to conform with what I had been told. An old rancher would ' tell me about a stranger who had gone through that {part of the country in a certain year and about his wife dying. I would try and fit my story td this circumstance and if I succeeded I had a witness who would go on the stand and swear to the facts. - 2 Then, too, it was not so difficult to change ancient records. All that was They | dying, | necessary was to add a son or daughter to families whose last descendant had died several generations prior to the time I did my work, then marry this son and daughter and 1 had connected the families and started the lineage. All my work was characterized by absolute simplicity. In every town in Mexico and Spain are public scribes to whom you may go and they will copy | or write anything you ask. By going to different scribes and using caution none of them suspected the purpose to which I put their writings. Indeed, they do so much copying that any particular piece of work soon slips from their mind. Then it was easy to slip out pages and insert papers in the records of the archives because I was given the great- est liberty in my work. Patience w: required in the task and I possessed that quality in abundance. Recurring to the work in Spain, I recall that I had stuffed the archives there in two cities, Madrid and Se- ville, before I sought any copies; in other words, I always did my work in that line before I began an investiga- to develop the work that I had depos- ited in the archives, and for this rea- son it took me a great while to do a very little. I found no inconvenience in any of this work from the simplicity with which the officials received me, as I was always on the outlook for curiosities to mention in my corre- spondence. After completing my work in Mexico I took a rest of some three weeks to allow the matter to season, and then I made formal application for a search. The custodian found this portion of the archives fairly glued together with age, so was completely “off his feet,” certifying with zeal to all this find, which went forward to startle the world and set at naught all criticism ingomuch that my supporters declared that the Government would be com- pelled to confirm the grant in the Su- preme Court regardless of what the lower court should, would or could do. Thus ‘“‘not a farthing for corruption” was the motto. During all this time I never had an accomplice. T did my work absolutely alone; therefore there could not possi- | bly have existed ground for a charge of conspiracy to defraud the Govern- ment and all the evidence introduced by the Government to that end for the purpose of conviction was false and vicious. When I started in I could not speak or write Spanish. I hired public scribes in Mexico and Spain to do my copying. During the latter part of our visit in Spain my wife and myself were received in noble families and were en- tertained lavishly. The public 1s fa- miliar with my trial and how the great- est men of this country pleaded my case. To estimate the expenditures on either side of this case would lead into | differential calculus. It has been said that I expended a quarter of a million dollars, yet the half would strike nearer the mark, and I would not make a guess for the Government, understand- ing as I do the varfous avenues for Klondiking Uncle Sam in such matters. The Assistant District Attorney in his review before the jury at the trial upon a charge of conspiracy to defraud the Government, a simple misdemeanor, stated that the Government had ex- pended $45,000 to convict me and he hoped the jury would consider that part and not disagree. Yet this trial did not cost me one nickel, and the good reason was, I had It not. The Government said: ‘“We consider this one of the greatest schemes to per- petrate a fraud on the Government that was ever attempted in this ccuntry, or possibly in any other. It has been car- ried on successfully for over a quarter of a century, and a large amount of money obtained, based upon its sup- posed and really prima facie genuine- ness, and for a quarter of a century, tion, depending upon the investigation | every year continucusly, as we will be | able” to show to the court, there ha been 2 persistent, intelligent and as- gressive effort to manufacture their claim from ton to bottom. * * * Il will say frankly to the court that this| case, as it stood, unchallenged by the| Government, weuld have required this | court to confirm to the original grantee, | for the benefit, really of the present | |claimants. * * * They have presented | their claim based on properly authen- | ticated documents, which, as transiated | 1nto Englis nd before being analyzed, | make as clean and complete a_case of | a grant as we have ever had before this | | court. It seemed t¢ us that it was | strange that there should come from | | Spain and Mexico so many documents of the greatest dignity, certified by the | keepers of the archives, fortified again | by the certificates of our own officials, making them thereby prima facie evi- | dence in_this court.” = [ | Collis P. Huntington said: ‘While T Ihil\'e nct entered into the details of the | | title, T have not had time, but my old | | friend, Charles Crocker, who examined into it thoroughly, believed in it, and I shall do all T n to aid you.” Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll said: “I | have not examined into the matter Ais | carefully as Frank Hurd has, but I am satisfied that your wife is entitled to| that property—she is a charming woman | and deserves to succeed. Come to my | officc and make your headquarters, you | are more than welcome.” And at an- | other time he said: “Yes, if it will be | of any advantage to you, elect me presi- dent of your compan, Roscoe Conkling said: “If this title | stood for a tract of land here in New York I would consider it unimpeach- | able; as it is there is so much politics in the matter that I cannot say just | what will be the outcome, yet I find a | perfect title in this woman, Mrs. | Reavis.” John W. Mackay saids “I consider that Mrs. Reavis has as good titie to that immense property as I have to this hat I hold in my hand, and I paid | my own money for it.” Charles Crocker said: ‘“While I have always had absolute confidence in your wife's title to the grant, I think you will succeed better without our active | support than with it, since our sins would be weighty for you to bear.” To which I involuntarily responded, my wife and niece being present: “I would gladly be billed for heaven in a hand-basket laden with your sins,” such was my admiration for that great son of toil. He was an indefatigable worker to the last and without ques- tion he was not only the first. but most important of all my supporters; and he left the title question to his attorneys, thereby bringing the entire syndicate of attorneys and politicians of ‘the Huntington syndicate into the scheme through a liberal distribution of shares of stock in the Casa Grande Improvement Company, which was or- ganized for the purpose of furthering | the schemes in view, the least of which was the confirmation of the Peralta grant with its estimated value of $100, 000,000, the ultimate object of the syn- | dicate being the irrigat’on of 15,000,000 acres of land. I shall close with the exact words with which I closed the case before the court of private clalmsfi}hrm\‘lng’ my | eyeglasses upon the table ‘between my- self and the court I sald: “T would not | give the value of these glasses to win | that immense estate and be compelled to assume the responsibilities involved 000090000 QCOOOOIOSOIOGETS ® ° ® The Sunday Call, 32 o ® pagdes, delivered at your : o home by mail for 8150 ® a year. Subscribe forit. @ RS * ©P0LO0CO0POOOQCOOIQOPOOOS® in a confirmation by your honors, even with all the fictitious values that have been bestowed upon it; yet, for the honor of my family, I shall fight on; yes, to the bitter end.” —_— e If you were on the moon the earth would appear to be sixty-four times larger than the sun does to residents of this planet. “THE CREDIT HOUSE” Damask covered Couch, tufted and fringed; good upholstery and well sel- ected colors ............§3.50 A carload of Couch comfort just ar- rived, from the world’s best fattories. 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