Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-06-15
PERALTA-REAVIS GRANT.
Mass of Documentary Evidence In- troduced by the Government Proof That the Alleged Grant Was Fabricaf afed-Reqnest of
 Rsavis for Postpone
 ment Denied.

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 Santa Fe New Mexican). | In the matter of the Peralta-ReaviG
 land grant case, pending before the Un.
 ited States court of private land claims
 a large amount of documentary testi
 mony, including photographs and trans
 lstions original records of Span, Mexi
 co and California, were placed before
 the court by the government yesterday afternoon.
 This mass of documentary evidence,
 illuminated by the lucid explanations oi
 United States Attorney Reynolds, As
 sistant United States Attorney Mallet.
 Provost and Special Agents Tipton and
 Hughes, who were chiefly instrumental
 in collecting the same, all tends clearly to show the gradual growth through
 many years of the manifestly fabricated
 and fraudulent grant claimed by the
 Peralta- Resvis people; that since the origin of of the pretended claim, prob ably quarter of century ago, immense quantities of time, labor and money have been expended in fabricating and forging records and otherwise perfectIng and strengthening the claim for presen- tstion to the court of private land claims; and that large amount of money and labor have necessarily been expended by the government in discov- erIne evidence that would establish the frot Atrlo oh of f ha so-called grant and thus justify the court in casting 1t aside as vicious and worth less.
 For this purpose the government law officers have patiently proceeded step by step. Its experts and agents have gone to Spain, Mexico, California, and every where else that Rsavis said a paper could be found ,and, through the cour- tesies and help of the governments in- dicated, have been afforded access to the archives and records deslred. Copies of the documents and records thus pro- cured, verified by photographs snd the witnesses who took them, establish be- yond peradventure that the alleged grant was manufactured from beginning to end.
 Among other and curious evidences of fabrication and fraud are the clumsily written Spanish or American Spanish" to the kings of Spaln alleged to have royalty decreed and approved the pretended grant; proof that the ex- perts were unable to translate much of this so-cslled Spanish because they had been unable to find many of the words used; that the pretended will of the of the alleged Mrs. Peralta> Reavis, said to have been executed in 1863, is clearly fraud; that Reavis was caught in the act of forging and making interpolations in the records | of Spain and he and his associates were declared guilty of forging by the Span sh government; that records of death | ng on the case, were inserted in the | archives of Csthollc mission ia Cslif- l ,rnia in bad Spanish and after the book | had been indexed; that these records | were clerly forged and interpolased.
 James Addison Peralta-Reavis has ! written the court from San Francisco, his letter with an affidavit, | hat be has been unable to secure law | ,ere to protect his interests and asking | hat the hearing be postponed urtil l November. In view of the vast amount | ,f land and other property involved and | he ample time Reavis has had to pre- pare for the hearing, the court declined | ,o grant the request, and the government | will continue the work of putting its Il testimony upon the record of the tribun- Il. Ex- x-Mayor J. D. Monihon, of | Phoenix. who was one of the first men approached to take an interest by | Reavis, is what the latter then termed "a floating grant," is in the city as an important witness for the government.
 At 2.30 this afternoon Chief Justice | Reed received telegram from James Addison Perslta-Reavis, dated at San Francisco, asking that the Peralta grant case be continued until Monday, June 10, and saying that he would then be in Santa Fe with counsel. The case was continued until Monday.