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He Almost Won the Suit on Forged Est - donee — The Case BOA Just Been Decided In the Santa Fe Federal Court. all the fraudulent claims to real es- tate which are re- corded in history, the most colossal, the most over- whelming in its au- dacity and in its approximatiop to success, waS that which met its quie- tus in the United States court room in Santa Fe the other day, when a former streete car conductor who had come within an ace of proving a title to the largest fortune in the world, left the room, hopelessly beaten and under a charge . of forgery which renders him liable to many years' of imprisonment. The case of the Tichborne claimant was equally audacious, and more famous be- cause it was prosecuted in England and Involved a title, but the property rep- resented was an insignificant trifle com- pared with the enormous Arizona tract DON REAVIS. elaimed by this ex -street car conductor, a strip of land 225 miles long and 75 miles wide, populated by 40,000 people, traversed by railways, full of gold, sil- ver and copper mines, and including in its area Ore whole of the capital city of the territory. The productive value of the area Is incalculable, and the most moderate estimate of its present cash value Is 875,000,000. Even the fa- mous Anneke Jans claims, which have sprung up with undiminished hopeful- ness from generation to generatiori, are Insignificant in comparison with this prodigious and well-nigh successful im- position. Writers of fiction have exhausted their imaginations in inventing incred- ible tales of recovered titles to enor- mous estates, but it is doubtful whether the most inventive of them has dared to use such a story as that of James Addison Reavis, claimant of the lands alleged to have been granted in 1748 by King Ptrdinand VI. of Spain, to one Don Miguel de Peraita de la Cordova, Baron of Arizona and the Colorados. Knight of the Fleece and Baron of the Order of Charles III., Knight of Mon - teas. It was in 1883 that this simple- minded frontiersman came before the courts with his claim to this little em- pire in the West. He showed transcripts of photographs of all the documents in the case, including King Ferdinand's grant, the location of the tract by the Viceroy of Mexico in 1758, the will of Don Miguel leaving the estate to his son. Miguel de Peralta; the deed of the land by the latter to Dr. George M. Wil- ling in 1864, and the transfer of the deed to himself by the widow of Dr. Willing in 1867. The surveyor general searched the claim thoroughly, and pointed out certain defects in it. Reavis was not in the least discouraged, however, and four years later he filed an amended petition declaring that he had by marriage be- come the representative of Donna Sona Loreto Nlicaela de Peralta Reavis. for- merly Mayo y Silva (le Peralta de la Cordova. great-granddaughter of Don Miguel Nemecio Silva de Peralta de las Flaces, and he made his position more imposing by sighing himself James Ad- dison Peralta-Reavis. And so far from diminishing his claims, he demanded an even larger tract. At this period theta(' began to look serious. Such emine t lawyers as Colo- nel Ingermol and Roscoe ConklIng de- clared it a clear title, and on the strength of their opinion money poured in from capitalists glad to Invest in so profitable a claim. The Commercial Telegraph company supported Reavis. and Crocker of the Southern Paciti , Its company gave him Sf,0.000, while others were equally liberal lie fl,t1 sumptoosuly at the %turfman S. MALLET PRoVoST House, Nes York. where In the Course of four years he tan up ft bill of 810.000 lie retainer' th e most emlnent ,o1Inctel, and one of the attorneNs Colonel .1 ii Itroadhead. of St. Louis. was to receive a fre.of $7,00.- 000 It is likely that at leeet a million Was Spent by Reavis in preparing his rase. and It had every appearance of being overwhelming There were no iflitainfil links in the testimony this time. The government was startled but not discouraged. Attorney Matthew E. Reynolds, into whose hands the case had been put by Attorney General Ol- ney, got held of one S. Mallet-Provose a clever young attorney of New York, o ho was regarded as an expert in Span- ish anti Mexican litigation, and set hint to work on the evidence, lie quietly slipped down to the City of Mexico and began digging around In the national archives. What he saw there interest- ed him very much, so much that with- out any delay he crossed the Atlantic and made a similar examination of the records at Madrid. If the first revela- tions were astonishing, the last were paralyzing, and the result was such that no one had the slightest notion, when the day for the trial came, that the claimant would dare to show his face in the court room. They under- rated his audacity, and on the day ap- pointed a telegram was received saying that he would arrive the day following. His lawyers had received an inkling of what was up, and abruptly deserted him. But Reavis, calm and confident to the last, presented his own case, as coolly AS though unaware that the trap that had been tightning no long was ready to snap. Then came the crash, and the man who had to all appearances come in the expectation of being made the richest man on earth left a hopeless bankrupt, in the hands of the officers of the law, conyteted of felony. And what a revelation it was! Not only was there no heir, no deed, no will, but there never was any land grant. and—final stroke—there never was any Don Miguel de Peraita de la Cordova. Baron of Arizona and the Colorados. Knight of the Fleece and Baron of the Order of Charles III.. Knight of the King's bedchamber, with entrance at will. All was a monstrous myth, a tis- sue of forgery and fabrication, evoked from the brain of an uneducated man. seemingly the moat simple and guilelest of his race. For twenty years he had been steadily at work, forging decrees, records, wills, deeds, ceduals, confirma- tion grants, seals and other documents —whole volumes of them—pi-lying his trade in New Mexico, Arizona, Califor- nia, Mexico and Spain. No obstacle turned him from his purpose. He was ignorant of Spanish, so he studied that until he mastered perfectly not only the language of to -day, but the classical Spanish of the Eighteenth century, the language of the court of Ferdinand VI. Not a linguistic flaw was found in any of the documents. Thea he began the study of archeology, and so perfect were his forgeries of the seals and sig- nets, the 4 4 ecorations and orders of the Spanish court in the last century, that the finest experts in Madrid were abso- lutely deceived. It was as marvelous as the miraculous acquirements of the Count of Monte Cristo; and, most won- derful of all, throughout those twenty years of forgery and imposture, he kept the tranquil, innocent look which was so potent a cause in influencing men In his favor. Nothing shook his nerve, and he kept his pose of guilelessness to the last. Lydia Bristol Loosed • PostoMee While Her Husband Stood Guard Outside. May 23 last Lydia Bristol forcibly en- tered the house of Postmaster Turner at Rome. Mo., and, shoving two revolvers LYDIA BRISTOL. In his face, ordered him.to hand over his money. He produced 8200 fend then she forced him to open the post -office safe, from which she took 820 In postal money -order funds. Her husband. John Bristol, and Benjamin Trott guarded the doors while she did the work. Then they took the postmaster out to his pasture, made 1.1m catch, saddle, and bridle two of his horses for them. Then they bound hin hands and feet, gagged him, anti tied him to a tree, where his wife and daughler found and released hi m. They were otptured the other (lay after a continuous chase. BrUtally Murder Two Men, • Woman anti Throe Children. A terrible erime has been committed It Guariejeyeho, in the auanajay to - about forty-five miles bacco district. from Rat aria. Four burly negroot went to a grocery store at Ouanajayabo anti overpowered the grocer and his brother- in-law and stabised them t o th e h eart The negroes then rushed after the storekeepers wife and three daughters. aged respectively 17, 6 and 4 years, with the intention of assaulting them. The woman and her datightera made a des Iterate struggle, shrieking wildly for help. But the negroa Infileted injurlea upon all their victims ft ,,,, which they died. The seoundrele lit.',, plundered the grocery store and disappeared. Their crime WAR discovered by a white man of the country distrIet. who, as noon as he saw the bodies of the negroes victims. started for Guanajay and placed the matter before the authorities. The otintryman found that one of the little girls Was nail alive when he entered the store, and if Was from her, almost with her last breath, that to. obtained the details of the crime The inhabitants of the conntry around 1:tinnAJAynbo and the police have started in pursuit of the four wretches, and it ia told they will surely be cut to pieces If captured. tealtoing Sksetatists. During the reeenr socialistic riots In Vienna a - s old wee*\ show, with North American indlene, was rehearsing near the scene of the disturbance. A local niagietrate impressed the \Texas Jack\ of the show and made him and his cow- boys do Cuty at Wading sclittltellt • SOME OF THE FALL AND WIN- TER ATTRACTIONS. Sir Henry IrvIng Will Be About the Only Notable Player of Shakespearian Rolls DrAtua, Light Opera 20t01 Other A in lleellieOta. coming (heat- rical seasin in New York (and that means the entire countr3) leaves the native playwright very much out in cold, writes Nym Crinkle. Outside of the Shakes- pearian re vi vals which Sir Henry Irving will make at Abbey's there will be but few oppor- tunities to see the tragedies and come- dies of the immortal bard. Richard Mansfield promises a revival of the long -neglected \Timon of Athens\ at the Garrick, and Augustin Daly, in ac- cordance with his annual costum, will also revive a Shakespearian play, while Olga Nethersole wftl be seen at the Em- pire in \Romeo and Juliet?' An inter- esting revival, which Robert Taber and loing out at the Garrick. The comedy novelties will be many and varied. John Drew will appear In \A Lover's Knot,\ by Henry Guy Carle- ton, at the Empire, and later will pre sent another new work at Palmer's; E. M. and Joseph Holland will inaugu- I ate their starring tour at the Garrick with several new pieces; Nat Goodwin, during his stay at the Fifth Avenue. will be seen in \A Gilded Fool,\ \David Garrick.\ and one or more new pieces by American authors; Crane, at the same house. will revive some of his old successes and present at least one new work by a native playwri4ht; Charles Dickson will try his luck with a new comedy at Hoyt's, and then will follow Robert Hilliard in \Lost Twenty-four Hours,\ a light piece, which met with considerable favor when first acted In the west last spring. At Hoyt's Charles Frohman will also make known the English' version he has had made of \L'Hotel du Libre Ex change,\ and at the Fourteenth Street Theater \The Village Postmaster,\ a comedy of rural life, by Jerome H. Eddy and Alice E. Ives, will be put on for a run. Augustin Daly may be counted on for some light adaptations from the French and German, whine at the Lyceum there will be productions of a new comedy by Glen McDonough and one by Pinero, which will first be presented in London at the Court Thea- ter. At the Star, which has lately come under control of Neil Burgess, a new GEORGIA DREW BARRYMORE his gifted wife, Julia Marlowe Taber, will make, will be that of the firet part of \Henry IV.\ at the Herald Square. In It Taber will play Hotspur, Mrs. Taber Prince Hal and W. F. Owen Fal- staff. In the matter of scenery, cos- tumes and appointments the produc- tion will be a most complete and elab- mate one. In the field of romantic drama there will be Dune and her marvelous art at the Fifth Avenue; Bernhardt at Ab- bey's, Sothern in \The Prisoner of Z;rola\ and Clyde Fitch's \Major Andre\ at the Lyceum; Nethersole in \Carmen a dramatic version of Meri- mee's novel, at the Empire; Richard Mansfield in a series of plays adapted from Stanley J. 'Wernan's romantic novels. Fanny Davenport in \Gin - monde\ at the Fifth Avenue and Mrs. Potter and Kyrie Bellow In a rich and adequate production of Decourcelle'i historical romance. \Le Collier de la Rein.\ at Daly's. The first dramatic offering of the new season will be made late in August at the Empire. where \The City of Pleas- ure,\ an adaptation of \Gigolette will he presented. At this Bartle house, later, Charles Frohnian'a stock company will be seen In a new play by Bronson How- ard, which is sure to have serious in- terest. \Heart of Maryland,\ Itelasro'n play, completed some months ago, will have Its flret hearing at the Herald Square, while \The Great Diamond Robbery,\ a sensational drama of mod- ern life, by Col. Alfriend and A. C. Wheeler. and a new dtalnil. by Charles 11yt, with a baseball plot. Will both have productions at GIS American. / / /' MARLOWE. other dramas to he presented are -The Home Secretary,\ by H. C. Car- ton, at the Lyceum, a new play by Au- gustus Thomas Al the Standard; \The Not ortoue Mrs. Ebheml ' Pine ro's much discussed play. which John Hare, Julia Netleon. Fred Teery and other Englisb players will present at Abbey* and - Mariana,\ by Jose Fehegaray, the • t W piece from his pen, involving many new and Ingenious mechanical effects, - will probably be the first offering. Comic opera will be an important ele- ment in the make-up of local pregrams. Among the musical attractions already hooked are Delia Fox In a new comic tmera, by Goodsin and Furst, at Pal- OLGA NETH Fits' tme. n. , ' ,. • The Princes. ?tonnle,\ by Wil- la , d Spenser. at the Broadway; French, Wilmon in \The Chieftain,\ by iturnaud anti Sullivan. at Abbey's; \Him Excel- lency,\ by Gilbert and Parr, at the Bri.adway; the liontoniens in a new work at the same house; Frank Daniels in \The Wizard of the Nile. - by H. B. Smif h and N'ictor Herbert, at the Ca- sio-. and \Hansel and (trete',\ by it.te‘oerelitt, k. at Italy's. Later in the seas -it Lillian Russell will he seen in a big How sovf•tarolat production at Ab- bey's, while DeWolf Hopper, at the Broadway, will appear in - El Capitan,\ for which Charles Klein has supplied the book and John Philip Sousa the Score. • Old-time farce comedy has given place to the musical farce of which \A Gaiety Girl\ Is such a successful ex- ample. In this line of work New York- ers will see \The Shop Girl,\ the reign- ing sUOPPOI at the Gaiety Theater, Lon- don. It will be given at Palmer'. with a complete English company. including Seymour Hicks and Elialine Terries. t the Fifth Avenue F. C. Whitney will prefient \The Bathing Girl,\ the PAM effort of two enterprising young Ant- ins At Hoyt a \A Black' ht• . (me of charlos 11 lloyrs laugh - obi, oncerlima. which has enjoyed wid, p..1)011.01)7 ollt of town, will bs heard here for the first time, and at the Garriek during the holiday. Mr. Mans- field will present an old-fashione4 Christmas pantomime \Excelsior Jr..' a burlesque which E V Rice will stage, will he the opening Alit sietl\n at Ham- merstein's N. a• Nymph% and at the Garden Theater in dee season will he rtesented a ra.w comedy vrtth musical nornbera written by Paul Potter in qui- laborstIon with Bin Nye. These plays will during the selliSon be Beauty WilhoUt Talent ihlett Not Count for MILICti with Paris 'I heater t.orrs of the Magnet le Slrente Who I harm it,,- Fr0 . 116 . 11 (Spit it, E.AUTY is a very gu.•1 thing, but ‘‘ riOt unaccompa- nied by magnetism it is like a scentless dower. Magnetism, however, doe* exist without beauty, and sweeps all before it. invincibly, unrea- sonably, mysterious ly. This positivism explains the contin- ued ascendency of Yvette Guilbert in Paris. She is only a music hall singer, a cafe chantant sketch artist, but Paris Is true to her, and now, during her visit to London, the English papers are devoting columns to her praise. She has always been described as coming quiet- ly out in a conventional evening gown, singing questionable songs with a saint- ly air. She does nothing of that sort. True, her gown is modest enough for a church bazaar, but the Icng, thin arms, bare to the elbow, in these days (if bal- loon sleeves make one surprising not , : ,the sober, black gloves another; plain, serviceable slippers another; the school girl simplicity of the loosely - clasped hands another; the lack of false coloring on the undeniably red hair and plain face a last one. You eapect little from such an ensemble. You are spell- bound from the enutielation of her first line. Afterwar I you realize why. when you hear critics assert that her power as an actress is as great as Bernhardt's. ANNA HELDER. but put to a debasing use—a jewel in a dust heap. Guilbert's face is capable of quiet, diabolical expression; even her smallest gesture, wink. or lightest no become somehow blatantly wicked. Aft- er her all the chattering, whirling, skid - tossing young women are violent and jarring. while In your soul you know they are not half as shocking as the Tell mannered, velvet voiced Yvette. lier most popular trong this season is Beranger's famous poem, \The Grand- mother.\ Taking a lace fichu from her throat she places it over her head to represent a night-cap—there is no other change of costume, no properties, no make-up, yet in a moment the hands upon the knees seem palsied, the eyes dim with age, she recounts her dead and gone gallantries in a crooning mon- ., Otone, she looks a hundred years old. Guilbert's history is strangely devoid of romance. Only five year. a - ivas a Paris shop -girl, using her wonder- ful powers to delight her companions at lunch time. In her little world her fame spread and she began to look beyond it. limits. She sought the stage. A good- temper - ed manager gave her a trial; her SUCeeSA was instantaneeme To -day she is famous—a shrewd business woman and very rich, writes Kate Jordan In Leslie's Weekly. Otero, who danced in New York five years ago, has been at the Fallen Ber- geres since the MI-Careme festival When she writhed and snapped her fin- gers on the stage of the Eden Mueee she was a beautiful worran, a Spanish Madonna in type. Put \La belie Otero,\ as she is called, ha l changed all that. The severity of hair has gone. and she wears it wild, oefrizzled like the thou- sand other theatrical lights of Paris who loll in their victories in the Bole; the pure, magnolia complexion is replaced by crude red and white; she is thinner, and, strangely enough, looks much younger than when New Yorkers paid to see her dance. La Pongv. whose diamonds are as fa - 4 1 1( •••-• OTERO. dolts In their Way AR the bargains at the Iton Marche. is Oter(Ot rival. Ni, taw knows quite what the iseeret of the feud IP, hut these two variety stage staae eontimially attempt to outshine each other They were both at Monte Carlo In Jatioary, and In the surging, dusty, green hued gambling rooms were the Centers of oppoping, admiring crowds titer° At one table Was a hril liteht Spanish picture in rrlmson or %el low.. the tuitions on her Satin blou.te sapphires as large as rob' n•fi eggs Tot n log from her your eyes were caught by a blaze of white, fire shot radiance from a table near by, where Le Pongy stood with a quart of diamonds sprinkled over bare shoulders. night. Trai • leis and residents at the beautiful,(demoralizing little principal- ity all heard the rumor that La belle Otero was winning twenty thousand francs a day. 11-r luck was phenom- enal, and 'feverish interest held the crowd surrounding her spell -bound. La Pongy's vanity was conquered by her desire for gain. (in this particular night she boldly went to the rouge ets. nOir table where the Spaniard stood re- peating her former successes, and de- liberately - followed her play. She won a great deal, but she gave a triumph td Otero before a throng of onlookers which the latter very 1,robably valued more than her winnings. But La Pongy %had her revenge. A night or two following. when Otero daz- zled all eyes with necklet, rings, sun- bursts and pins in diamonds and sap- phires, tier rival entered in a simple, high -necked black gown, nun -like in ef- fect—all her diamonds were blazing on the red-faced maid wh., followed her in brilliant green. And who is Diane la Pongy? Beyond the fact that she is otero's rival and has diamonds more than enough for a king's ransom (as valued in these democratic days) there is but little to tell. She has bleached -hair. a long, thin, sparkling face and occasienally may be seen and heard doing the usual \turn\ at aortic music hall or eafe. This is all. And with this meager knowledge we must be content. Anna Heider iota been talked of for some daring, eccentric dances at the - Folles Bergen's. Her face is of the mo- bile, expressive type. It is curious, •as one looks among her many photograPhm, to see in her eyes a light like a definite, celestial it It was a technieal error for nature to have given those angel eyes to Helder. Popular hits are frequently made in curious ways, but pert airs never but once, in all probanility, has a fashion of hair arrangement started a whisper. The exception to this rule has been De Merode, another of the Paris favorites. Fur three' years she was one of the coryphees at the Grand Opera,. jUst a unit among lines of human butterflies, angels, or nymphs. Yet in every opera. whatever the eostume, her hair, always( the same, always unique. was an em- phatic note. All of a length, this won- derful chestnut hair is always severely parted, down in low, loose bands quite over tht. ears, and loosely coiled behind. At last De Nlerode's constancy to one set coiffure was rewarded. People be- gan to ask who she was; photograph , ra discovered that her profile was purely Greek, that she was beautiful; and if Was not long before she became an ob- ject of popular I - omage. - To-day her pictures are displayed ev- erywhere in Pa.im. She is.still a cory- phee, but lei paid extravagantly for sit- ting before the camera, and for an ex- ceptional price has posed for'one or two of the best sculptors. The oak growing from a little acorn is not' more wonder- ful than De Mertele's fame ale a Veauty starting from her low -drawn hair. Willi a fringe' or the usualacurled locks her profile might never have been discov- ered among the baek rows on the big opera stage. She has row several imi- tators among Parisian actresses, and the De Merode coiffure has had an en- thusiastic vogue in ii nH. He Places a Timely l'ertAlty Inc of Ills autograph. Rudyard Kipling having recently been hard pressed by requests for his auto- graph, has devised a happy method of RUDYA RD KIPLING. sifting applicants and giving it only to those .who, like himself, are charitably inclined. Musing upon his predicament one day, the plan came to him. He at once sat down and oomposed a brief cir- cular to autograph hunters. The circu- lar he had printed and the type -matter electrotyped, so as to be sure of an un- limited supply. The circular declarea that his signature will be sent as soon as he (teem the seeker's name printed In the New York Tribune as a contributor of not less than 82 50 to tho T , Thune fresh -air fund. Where is Stanley' What it, he. Arne of Henry M Stan- ley/ asks the edttor f !Tome anti Coun- try. The explorer Peeinttl 10 have retired from the public gaze Since the captor - Mongers whose iI. is In the last Eng- lish election quizzor tlitn 140 outrageous- ly. anti defeated him at the polls. Re- port says that he is preparing to pub- lish a history f,f his earlier travels, be - for he won fame in Africa We wonder if it will he as absorbing as the narra- tive whit h the NeW York Sun publis:led on the An me sithJect about a quitter of a century ago, and whether It will go minutely into Stanley's athentares in Asia kllnor, and his expeilenre In the handa of the Turks. Very likely not. While In Now York, after the publica- tion In question. Stanley told sonic in- teresting s about that Turkish ad- venture %vitt h even the Sun had not printed, but which are sometimes re- ferred to, after sherry and champarne k among the older newepaper men The Chimeso of Trinity. Promptly at noon on the Fourth of July. In aecordanee with the mistom years, the chime. of old Trinity ehurch Itrondway rang out the inspiring notes of \'Yankee Doodle Rain kept away the tiftnal crowd of listeners Occasion- ' ally a passer-by would haltnte, look up i toward the steeple and then renew his rdlitch upon the handle of his umbrella Fowl pass on virtue alone outtotilda the pyramids: , Her rrum o Urnents shall last when Illeypt's fa
