The Arizona sentinel., 1877-06-23
Clum is ssOn It.,

dG Sdu SoiiOCS i4oo hau - A'.~- = contract to fill for the past five years. He came here at d time when the Military was casting greedy, covetous eyes at the spells supposedto be bagged by officers of the Indian Department. When it was poisoning the public mind against Indian Agents by circulating, through a subsidized or deceived press, exaggerated reports of every proven dishon- esty and deliberate calumnies of men whose record was stainless; at time when predecessor. an army officer of high rank and Act ing Indian Agent, had cleared over $50, 900 from the position in s few months and the Army had begun to believe that so good d thing would forever remain to be portioned out to it's itching palms. The Military determined to dis grace him and 10 Oust him. Dur ing all these years the army has been filling the press with rubbish about his feeding Indians on pa per, issuing Sonora calves as Ame- rican beeves, etc. In this it has been consciously lying or com- pounding felony. Popular pre- judice is against Indian Agents. Any grand jury would indict one on the merest trace of evidence. These brave soldiers will en- venom public opinion, which is as dastardiy as poisoning well ) but they haUe conscience enough left to prevent their uttering upon the witness stand what they so glibly communicate to the people through the press. Thpy must stop tying or must convict Cum. Whether Cum has or has not stolen, we are not prepared to say. We see no evidence that he has, but we have so often seen men aCith uniforms successfully tempt. ed, that we should not be sur. prised to learn that theft had been committed by one yith0Mt uniform. The Citizen has defend. ed him. Every other paper in Arizona and the Army have bounded him; but he has retained his position, gathered under his wing pretty nearly all the Apaches, and if anything was being made in handling them, he has scooped it all up for himself. The army has not even had g smell of it. During all this time he has not only been defiant, but aggressive. He has hit every head that he has seen and stepped on every coat that was dragged for him. The military brings the fight into the arena of public opinion, and Cum cheerfully shies his castor into the ring. In it he will probably win; in it the Army is off it's own dunghiii, while Cum is rooster who fights we'll anywhere. The Army was determined to have at least share of the plunder by having a representative at every Indian reservation. The following dis patches are authentic, and show how Cum takes it:
 TELEGRAMs
 TUCsoN, June ,, 1877. To the Commissioner of Indian Affairs: Washington
 I will not subm;tto- inspection by the army. am ready to transfer my prop erty. How soon can be relieved?
 CLUM, Agent
 WASHINGTON, D. C., June 6, 1S77
 To JOHN CLUM, Indian Agent: Explain nature of inspection by military to which you object. No arrangement yet made fer appointing your successor GALpIN,
 Act. Commissioner
 TUCsoN, June 6, 1877. To the Hon. Commissioner of Indian Al fairs, Washington, D. c..
 Your telegram this date received. Milf tary officers here are parading an order from the War Department, purported to have been issued at request of the Indian Office, directing military officers to be placed at San Carlos to inspect supplies and issues. I will not submit for a mo- ment to this surveillance. It is an insult