Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-09-18
NO. 35.
CAUSE OF THE UPRISING.
Tho Coal-Mine Speculation in which Agent
 Tiffany, is Sad to Fave Engaged
IFrom New York Herald. sep..mbqr 6.l

From New York Herald, Septsmber6.J A gentleman familiar with the counts | where general Carr and his command | were massacred. and who believes he ! has trustworthy information as to the l causes which led to the massacre, said | yesterday to a reporter:
 "It has been reported that a medicine ! man who has been stirring up the Ana ] ches IS responsible for tue anuihilation | of General Carr and his command. This | statement is absolutely false. The real | cause Ot all the trouble was the disc0v- | cry of a valuable cCal mine at Hog Can ! yOn, forty miles from San Carlos, by Tiff fany, the Indian Agent at the San Car l los Reservation. Tiffany induced the chiefs to sell to him, or believe they had sold to him, the property containing this coal mine, and be paid fifty chiess Sad | apiece. They were induced to make this sale only upon the solemn. assurance of Tiffany that the United states Gov ernment required the rr1peFty aud had instrUctest kin, C. uses'tiqla .-s r---e', 'se. . There lt reason Co believe clg- there are
 a number of capitalists associated with
 Tiffany m the matter. Energetic efforts
 were made by Tiffany, or by Haany's
 friends in Washington, to induce Setre-
 tary of the Interior kiricvo0i Co Cul this
 property out of the Apache reservation
 and set it apart in furtherance or their plans for its possession. This Secretary
 klrkWocd peremptorially refused t1 30,
 and he let ,. be distinctly understood
 tbat ir we iC have nothing whatever to
 oo win Tiff IA plans.
 THE AIAssACEE AE ACT oI vE0GEAScr.
 ~When the Indians discovered that the Government Gid not authorize Tif-
 fany to buy their property, they Datur- ally became very much iuceDsed, and
 terrible scheme Of revenge was the re- suit. This action of Tiffany was the real cause Ol all the trouble. and the massacre shows how faithfully their schemes of vengeance have been carried out. Tiffany, and not the medicine man, IS responsible for It all. Since the news
 of the massacre was published. Tiffany has been actually engaged in trying to shift the fearful responsibility ou the medicine man. whom he charges with having Iucited the Indians Co attack soldiers.
 "Ihis Tiffany k a power in Arizona. having some hold in Washington where by he has practically ruled the military affairs of his own section. He has had men removed and appointed al his VIII. and the officers of the army whom Ee disliked or feared have been sent else where. General Crook. the best Indian fighter in the army, and the man who whipped the Apsches into subjecson. was drlven away by tus mcn Hhany's influence"
 This statement as Co Tidany's action was repeated tC an army officer, who has seen service in Arizona. He said that while he did not know oi his own kuoWi- edge of the facts as stated, he had heard a good deal about H1any's connection with the coal mine, and it was generally understood that there was crooked ncss of some sort connected with the matter. Before Tiffany went to San Carlos the Indians were peaceab!e and easily managed, but from the very be- ginning of Tindnys administration as agent there had been trouble; recently hls trouble has grown SO serious that an outbreak has been feared, although no precautions had been taken Go prevent such a calamity as has overt1ken General Cars command The Indians had despised Tiffany from the outset, speaking Of him as @ sqUaw Is Co the statement that Tiffany had circulated stories that medicine men had melted the uprising in order t0 shield himself the officer said that while he dId not know the fact, the general rcpu ,Gti0n of Tiffany was such that he ltle spoakerl was ready to believe anything or ila- When asked whether it w9s true hat Iiiiany's influence was great. that he had secured the trausierol officers whom he feared or disliked. the officer replied that he would Dot like Co s7y anything on that point, but he would say that he believed the Indians would sooaer bill MaJOr-Generai than an Indian agent because in the latter case the whole power of the government would na used to punish the offenders, while -he butch cry of an army officer OF a number of soldiers would not attract SO much at- tentiOn or meet with so severe ruisl- ment