Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-09-25
TFFAEY's SCARE.

That IS what m the light of recent de-.- .velopments and Tiffanys own report the .so-called Indian outbreak may be termed.
 Advices from the Indian country state that the troops have not yet been able to find single hostile, and their onlyI. warlike exploit was to fire a few shotss over the heads of some squaws on their, way to the agency. Our San Carlosf correspondent telegraphs that nearly all the so-ealled hostile chiefs have surren-. sdered internationally, and the count ats the agency and sub-agency Thursday showed only a small handful absentt tfrom the reservation. It is evident thats Kit could not have been much of an cut z kbreak, or it would not have ended sos squickly and with such little bloodshed E xIf the Indians had for months been .planning this affair, as Agent Tiffany in- 5timates in his report to the Interior De. spartment, it would seem that they wolldE thave remained on the war-path at least Zone little month. But they have Iot,E Band a portion of the United States army lis securing the country in vain to find senough Indians on the war-path to es-. 5tabhsh their reputation as fighters onds Twin promotion for one or two officers. g Why has this Indian war which vas. kushered in with such a flourish of trum-.
 bets collapsed so suddenly? The reason. .is obvious. There has been no outbreak. sworthy of the name Either Agent If. ,,fany allowed himself to be badly fright. ssened or else he had some corrupt. ;schemes which an outbreak could help. 3to cover up. The agent can take either. s3horn Of the dilemma he chooses. Eitiief' Sis consistent with the facts as they nDvl s.appear and his own reports. He. sis the man who reported rumors to. 1.-the military, and had been doing. 'ssso for months It was his request. sito have the medicine man taken or. akilled or both which brought on. ithe Cibicu affair. All the facts in5
 dicate that the Cibicu affair was tue .starting point of the trouble Up to S.that time neither soldier nor citizen had {been killed; and as far as the best infor- 'nation we can obtain goes, the Indians ;were at that time in state of profound speace. It is evident that whoever was irresponsible for the Cibicu affair IS re- isponsibIe for all that has followed The ftIndians were assembled at Cibicu creek -iand were holding a dance and festival, land Agent Tiffany, either overcome by
 lhis fears or regarding 1t an opportme t moment to precipitate an outbreak, 3wired request to Gen. Wilcox to have
 .the military arrest or kill the medicine siman. The request to say the least is
 cold-booded enough to have been issued
 sby an Apache chief. The request WIS
 lcomplied with and the subsequent
 events, the killing of the medicine men
 sLieut. Hentig and seven soldiers, and
 the massacre of a number of defenseleiss
 settlers, couriers, etc, are familiar to all
 For these murders we charge the re
 sponsibility directly upon Agent Tiffany
 Upon his head rests this innocent blood
 lit has not been customary to call upor
 'the military to perform police service
 8The agency has a police force whlcl
 should certainly have been used befor,
 Ban appeal to the military was made
 There is nothing appearing either Il lsTifany's report or elsewhere that indi
 scates that there was any occasion for th'
 sarrest. much less the killing, of the med
 sicine man. We cannot see that he ha5 ssllone anything up to the time Carr 4command interrupted the least whlcl 3demanded his arrest, and 1t IS not SUI ssprising that the Indians regarded thel .spresence as unwarrantable interference with their rights, and as 6 virtual decla rtration of war, and resented 1t. Plac, e -s'fiiIc cfl | UtllIiztIncc-, anu I--Ac rcsd4t
 swould follow. The only wonder is tha
 lafter being thus exasperated they hav, fso soon consented to submit and sue foi ktpeace.
 H Besides the loss Of life and the de
 sstruction of property, the military
 smovements that have been caused n, ,,, Isthis scare have not cost !c.s nan e1 ooo.
 oOO. Then t11e'iiih t11e injury to the business in
 'eTests .;....,..... the Territory just at the Of the lively season is incalcu-
 liable, and thousands who were looking
 to Arizona as a place for settling have
 been turned into other and, as they sup Expose, safer directions.
 E3 For these misfortunes the Territory can thank Agent Tiffany. The CITIZEN saccepted Tiffany's statements as to the Edanger when the outbreak first occurred
 las reliable, and its editorial utterances t3have been in accordance with that view E9A thorough investigation and subse- H3quent facts, as they have developed E 3aave demonstrated that Agent Tifian! Twas himself responsible for the whcle affair.
 t We have nothing at this time to say Of shis ordinary conduct of the affairs oi Esthe agency. Whether they are admin .istered honestly or dishonesty, whethe,
 he treats the Indians with uniform kind sness or harshly, whether he sometimes srefuses them meat or not. whether he
 gives them all blows, bedsteads and swagons painted red, to run around over E the mountains and through the basaltic canyons Of the reservation with or not. are not under discussion. With
 these questions we have nothing to -do at present, but We do say that the
 circumstances of this late Indian scare demonstrate his utter incapacity for the
 Irresponsible position he is trying to i'll. h-and be shonld be immediately removed.