Arizona citizen., 1872-09-14
CHANGE OF INDIAN AGENTS


 an order relieving MT. Ed. c. Jacobs as Special Indian Agent at the Grant Agency, and appointed George HI Stevens in his stead. MT. Jacobs i$ ordered to report to the Superintendent, of Indian Affairs at Prescott, for as- Ssignment to duty at Date Creek or Verde. As we understand it, the cause of this change is the poor health of MT. Jacobs and his unsuitableness for the place.
 In behalf of MT. Jacobs, we may properly say that he took charge of the Grant Indians under the worst| possible circumstances. We believe they had been constantly committing primes and were shielded from punish ment. In our opinion and that of Iothers, the Indians had been educated to believe that under any and all cir cumstances the Government would be' their friend in preference to the citi-
 zens; also that for weeks after Jacobs assumed charge, the most foul inhu- ences were at work to make them dis trust, insult, and disobey him, and lthat, too, at 0 time when he was just starting ill and with superior author fly around and overshadowing his oEn. We regard it truth to say that the dynasty of rogues which pre- vailed there before MT. Jacobs con- ing, made efforts to render his agency q failure, so that they could point to their chief as the only man capable of manipulating those savages and ahe supplies for them, for they still had hope, as they boasted in their' rounds of debauchery, that he would Abe restored. We heartily welcomed MT. Jacobs to his new work without expressing our belief that he would Apot succeed, for the old gang of bad men were then and sometime after-| Awards present exercising their perni-) cious influence. Possibly he has not ldone all that he should or even couldl |have done, but we are unwilling to bel lieve that he has done or omitted to do
 what he could, because of an undue sympathy with the savages or i'm
 proper regard for the lives and prop erty of our citizens. We think he rel gently erred in not surrendering Sisto
 to Sheriff Ott, yet the law may, as he, thinks, support his refusal. He ar rested Sisto and expressed a readiness
 to give him up to the U. s. Marshal.
 He did not turn him loose, and will turn him over to his successor as al confined prisoner. It is freely asserted that MT. Jacobs lacks the nerve of firmness to deal with those Indians. Possibly he does, but it is easier t9 stand at safe distance and talk of d
 want of "nerve," than to go among hundreds of Apaches-especially such, | badly trained ones as at Grant-and exercise that degree of "nerve nec- essary to control them for the better. With this much regarding MT. Jacobs, hnd nothing in his favor for whatever idelinquencies or deficiencies he may i have exhibited, we kindly pass him Ialong to his next field of duty.
 \ Of the new agent, MT. Stevens, we have no personal knowledge, although many of our citizens have. We have some very eulogistic reports of him, but before we give such gushings place in THE CITIZEN, he must estab- fish his right to them by good accom-
 Alishments. We want him to succeed,
 and the better he succeeds the more
 highly will our pleasure be expressed.
 We shall recommend to our citizens to
 give him their support in all his eff
 forts to make the reservation sys- | Lo,, ..,o,.o,,