The weekly Arizona miner., 1873-06-07
Sad and Bad News from the San
 Carlos Indian Agency.

An express arrived at Department head
 quarters day or two ago, with very de.
 pressing news; news to the effect that an Tn.
 dian named Schuntz, had shot and killed
 Lieutenant Jacob Amy, while said officer
 was endeavoring to arrest said Schuntz for
 the crime of having, some time ago, murdered
 a white man--the butcher-at that william
 ous Indian and Indian commission hole-old
 Camp Grant. From letter received by us,
 we have had some difficulty in making out
 that, after having shot the Lieutenant the
 murderer, Shuntz, was shot at by some white
 and Indian soldiers that he was wounded in
 the leg, but managed to escape.
 So, another good, kind, brave, noble and
 generous soldier, has been cut off in the
 prime of life, by one of General Towards
 unwhipped and unreconstructed Indian pets. and now, we hope that Major Brown, con- manding new Camp Grant, will give his off. cers and men no rest until after they shall have caught and killed the murderer of Amy, to whose memory and services a brother soldier contributes the following just and feeling tribute, every line of which we approve:
 "Readers of the MINER will be pancd to learn or tue murder, at the San Carlos Indian agency, i on the 2Ith ultimO, of lst Lieut. Jacob Amy. Jtb | Cavalry, young officer ol prominence dnrini, thc recent campaign.
 From the meagre details thus far furnished. can only state that Lieut.. Almy's death occurred while endeavoring to quell d disturbance among the Indians Of the san Carlos Reservation These disturbances, growing out of rivalry and antay. onism between the former and the present agani [ In which the Indians became involved Tue par ticulaFs oi thls hostility have been known to tue Indian Department in this Territory for some timc
 Lieut.. Almy was, believe, native of Massa | chusett,s and a graduate of the L. S. Military Academy at West Point, in the class Of 1867 His nrst services were seen in the camDlign of lsb'-6s, against the hostile Cheyennes and Arapa noes In which he displayed the same high auali. ties which afterwards made him so conspicuous m reneFal Crooks operations against the Apaches He was present for duty during that campaign, from it's first inception to its close. anJ such were hls gaantry, coolness, sound iud, lnent and enthusiastic desire for distinction that aIthough inferior In rank to many of the officers present, he was selected 10 command one of The roiuinhs to operate In the Tonto Basin His lrduous and valuable services were fuinply .c by General Crook in the conyratn atory orders issued upon the termination of hos.
 htles, in which orders Almys name occurred hree times.
 He won the esteem and regard of the D.pnrt nent Commander by his energy, capacity and modest denIeanor; of his associate officers by ms daring gallanlry and noble qualities. Ills 'oldlcrs Tevercd him as a man with whom failure vas Impossible, aud our Indian allies as a soldier whose word was infleXible as iron,
 In Rim our Territory has sustained loss of the sravest character; Is rare, indeed that so much lOillty IS united to so much worth and that the iesire to place our struggling Territory upon its eet Is expressed in vigorous action in place of ,mpty words.
 The grief of hIs family will be allevla,ed by tbo assurance that t Is shared In by all his brother ems N'''
 May he rest in peace"
 The trouble and rivalry, between Indian gents, spoken of in tho foregoing, has never 'eiore been alluded 10 in print It is of a cry grave nature, and will, some day, come ut. At present, all we can say concerning IS, that it is publicly charged and, (to our ! not denied, that Dr. Wilbur, one f the agents alluded to, upon learning that I e was to be relieved by Major Larrabee, the { resent agent, did use his influence with the c indians, for tho purpose of having them :, nurder Major Larrabee and others, so that e (Wilbur) and his friends at Tucson, could O ontnue to grow rich by feeding and furn V 'hing Indians Of these facts, we are told, t 'r. Bendell, superintendent of Indian Affairs, an 'as cognisant, but, for some reason, he la. i' ored to suppress them. b Now, the Grant Indians have never vet al cen whipped. They have been petted and O Q iven their own way by the purchased ser '' ants of Whitman, Colyer, Howard & O., m ntil they have become very p,iable in the ands Of the "old ring" and ssacy and unre- zc
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