Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1890-03-29
THE PERALTA
Blackmailing Scheme to be Revived.
An Attempt to be Made to Put
IL Before the Court OF Claims.

it Before the Court OF Claims.
When Surveyor General johnson
made lis famous report on the Peralti
fraud, and the Honorable Commissioner
Of the General Land Office declared it t.
be without standing or merit, it wa
sincerely to be hoped that this attempted
swindle had found grave so deep as t.
be without a possible hope Of resurrec
ton. Such, however, appears MOI
to be the case, as an attempt
is now being made to put il
before the "Court OF Claims" al
Washington. A petition for that pur
pose has been prepared, copy of which
was received by Surveyor General John
son last evening, and from which the fol.
lowing extracts we're made. In giving
these extracts We have no desire to add
notoriety to this already notorious
scheme, but to warn people Of what is
being done at the peril of their homes,
The powers of the court of Claims" be-
fore which an attempt is to be made to
get hearing, is fully treated in the edi-
torial column of this issue, to which we
respectfully refer our readers.
The petition" printed in pamphlet
form of 80 pages, contains the usual
amount of rot about "Dona Sophia Lo-
reta Micaela de Maso Reavis Peralta
de la Cordoba" and is to be supported
by a formidable array of legal talent,
the names OF Phil 3. Thompson, Free
man & Morly, Luther Harrison, of
Washington, d. c., Andrew Squire, of
Cleveland, Ohio; Frank Hurd (ex-demo-
cratic Congressman Of Toledo, Ohio;
". Burke Cochran, of New York; James
o. BroadheadlSt St. Louis, Missouri; Lloyd
& Wood and II. S. Brown, of San Fran
cisco.
The boundaries of the claim are mod
estly defined as beginning at the west
end of the monumental stone or rock
which lies at the most eastern point of the
eastern base of the Maricopa mountain,
which is an eastern extremity OF the
Sierras Estrellas situated upon the
south bank of the ella river, opposite
the mouth of the Salt river" etc.
thence north crossing the ella and
Salt rivers a distance of 24.S85-10O0
miles to a point; thence east 149 $40
miles 10 point; and from west end
of the monumental stone, the place
OF beginning; thence south distance
of 24S8S- loco miles to q point; and
thence east 149 $1,000 to a point; and
thence northerly 100000 miles to the
point above described as the eastern ex-
tension of the northern point of the
western boundary line" etc.
pu Of hic poo.-ic
claims to be the owner of one half of
the land within the foregoing described
boundaries subject to conveyances
to others, and which are described be-
low by reference to the United States
surveys, which surveys have without
their consent and without their per-
mission, been extended over said lands,
and may be described as follows"
For lack of space We omit the descrip-
ton OF the land exempted as above no
ted, together with consideration paid
therefor. The following are given as
the names of the parties whose proper
ties are exempted.
II 4 Tweed. L w Bleim, T l. g. l Co..
John Adams, Mrs A A Alexander, EN-
ma Alsap, Sallie = Archer, Daniel Bag
ley. L r Bali, F G Berry, OF Black.
r Bower, John E Boyd, Patrick
Broadway, NV Broadway, Thos w
Brown, L L Brill, John r Burger, ] S
Byers, Fannie E Clark, Geo. f Coats,
Sarah E Coats, Edward Cole, @ NJ Col
Inns. Samuel Cook, A W Casuer, J NJ
Cottan, Beverley Cox, H Cox, Mrs F S
Cox, J NJ Crughton, B III Davis, Mrs
B H Denee, L S Despair, Edward Du-
pish,, Charles Duncan, Guss Ellis, r +
Harrington, S & F Franklin, Samuel
Franklin, Mrs A 4 Fulton, William Gil
son, d II Goodrich, Mrs NJ Goodwin,
Columbus Fl Gray, Mary II Gray, w T
Gray, j L Gregg, Josiah Gregg, ] NJ
Gregory, III @ Grenham, + G Hardiveck,
] b Hawley, G w L Herritt, n Herrick,
Geo w Hilliard, Geo w Hoadly, Jas. P
HOlcomb, Ellen Holland, E Irvine, r Z
Isaac, III Isaac. William Isaac, Seneca
jerks, NJ w Kales Sol Lewis. NJ G Kel-
log, ct al, Geo E Kemper, David G Killing
IL A Lewis, William Liggett, John X
Loosely, G II n Lahrs, o l. Mahoney,
Virginia Mahoney. Nelson A Marston,
McCollins. w f Melluty, John F
Meador, John Miller, 2 Minor, Joseph
NJ Moffet, F NJ Moguett, Joseph Nathan,
John b Montgomery, J A Moore. w B
Moore, Matthew r. Norrell. Thomas
Morrow, Jas Murphy, John P Osborn
W L Osborn. Fred Pollack, Geo b
Roberts VIA. II Roberts, Alice Robin
son, Flora Basan, l. II Royce and E j
Monk, j ID Rumberg, S V Schlessenger,
" Sears, Marion Sears, Emeline Sharp,
Robert Shultz. l. r Shaw, William T.
Smith, Z i Stafford, g ] Smith, J Z
Simms, james Stinson, = w Streeper,
Rebecca Strand, Ira Strand, Joseph
Tasker, Mrs Emma Vel, S F Webb.
B r Wharton. AIRS Lizzie White. VIM.
J White, " E Williams, WI Wilson,
Sam Win, ] S Wing. j Wood, Mary H
Woolsey, W III Dempsey, A Mason, S
Bartleson, w L Bailey and wife, Lucy
Long, School Dist. No. 1, Town Of Flor
ence, Pinal County. ID o Stevens, L H
Stage Co, Henry C Rogers, George w
Sotrine, John NJ Lewis, Elijah Pomeroy,
John L Dennis, Elias NJ Block, S P r r
Co, S K Mining Co., b Barney, B H
Summers, Hinson Thomas, w E Guild,
] NJ Ochoa, Geo Scott and wife.