Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-05-14
PACIFIC COAST.
Port Of Entry News.

Port Of ERtry News.
/ PoBr townsend. May l3.-The shi,
india, from Tacoma, loaded with Goa
Tor San Francisco, went to sea thii
morning in tow of the tug Tacoma.
Bark Amethyst arrived this morning
from the Fiji Islands, and is awaitin:
orders.
A portion of the frame of the pro
posed new mill arrived this morning OIL
the schooner Gen. Hrrney. from Stetson
q Posts mill at Seattle. Work will
commsnce on the mill immediately.
sailed.
PoRr BLAKELI, May I2-Sailed-Bar-
kentiue IL ,kah, for San Pedro.
Fortunate Lady.
PORTLAND, May l3.-Mrs. L. A. Potts,
of this city, has fallen heir to S3O,Cc0
beqneathed bya lady friend in New
York, who had mothers affection for
her. Mrs. Potts's husband was engineer
OF the steamer Gold Dust and was killed
by boiler explosion about year ago.
Farther Responsibility.
John Muir, Superintendent of Traffic
OF the .. X. & N. Co. and Northern Pa
cifie, was today appointed Superintend-
ent of Traffic of all the Pacific Coast
Steamship Co.'S routes north of San
Francisco except the lines between San
Francisco ard northern ports in Cali
fornia.
, 80 More Chinese.
The American ship Reporter, which
arrived here this afternoon. brings $50
Chinese, most of whom are enga ged for
railroad work.
Drowned.
Peter Lawrence, we'll known here. was
drowned at Point Ellis, w. T., while |
fishing. His body was recovered. De-
ceased was German, aged 80 years and |
The Tichborne Claimant Again.
San Francisco, May 13.-Ferris. alias
Sir Roger Tichborne, the California
claimant mentioned some months ago
in these dispatches, is again in the city.
His attorney says that recently he has
been put in connection with three per-
sons residents of this State, formerly in
tho employ of the Tichborne family.
One, Chas. Burden, was page to Sir Ed
ward Doughty Tichborne's uncle, and
more recently was Public Administra-
tor of Tuolumne county: another is a
woman living in Alameda county, who
was in the employ of the family for
Ewelve years, and married in 1855 in the.
The Tichborne private chapel; the third
man was formerly employed as g.rdsaer
by Sir Henry Tichborne. These three
met Ferris at his attorneys office last
and after conversation recog-
nized and acknowledged him as Roger
fichborne. Arrangements arc now be-
ing made for him to visit Father Lefebre,
his former spiritual adviser now of
Paris.
An Immense Land Claim.
SAN Francisco, May 13.-The Chroai-
:le publishes story that James 81. Rea-
Vis has set up claim for a Spanis
grant of three million four hundred
thousand acres iii Arizona, beginning at
,he base of Maricopa mountains. run
aing east, including Gila Valley and the
over valley of Salt river. He bases his
claim on deed given about twenty
years ago by Miguel Peralta, of San
Diego, to Reavis and Geo. NJ. Willing,
the widow of the latter selling to Rcavis.
The grant was originally made to the
Peralta family by Ferdinand W., of
Spain. in 174S. A transcript Of the re-
cords was filed in the Church archives f
tho old mission of San Franc g
Xavier and preserved by the Indian Bu-
reau of the Catholic Church. The tract
claimed embraces Maricopa, Phoenix,
Florence. Pinal, Globe, Riverside and
other mining districts. In the euise of |
a newspaper correspondent Reavis has
travelled over Arizona and Mexico, hunt
ing records and preserving certified |
copies and Photographic facsimiles. He
has interested some capitalists in his |
claim.
A Bsy's Suicide.
TULARE, (Cal.) May 13.-Yesterday
about noon young man named George
Harper was found hanging to willow
tree on the Tule River, about FIVE miles
from Potterville. He left the house in
the morning in apparently good spirits.
About noon his brother found him hang
ing dead. Deceased was about 18 years
old.
Grand Lodge 0nicers.
SAN FRANcIsco, May l3.-The follow
ing grand officers of the l. o. o. F. were
appointed last evening by the Grand