Arizona silver belt., 1881-10-08
SAN CARLOS.
Agent Tiffany ExOnerated from the Responsibility of the Recent Out. break.
SAN CARLOS, Sept. 27, IS,

EDITOR CITizEN: Having been at this Agency for the past ten days, and having had an opportunity of examining the workings of this Indian village, my judg- mcnt should be worth something. Icame here a total stranger to the Agent, on my first visit to San Carlos, imbucd with all the prejudiccs imbibed from newspaper dennnciation, and ready to bounce on any unfavorable item at once, but after thor. ough investigation am able to pronounce the current allegations against Col. Tiffa- ny false. Many of your contemporaries charge Col. Tiffany with being responsible for the Indian war. but there is documen. tary evidence on file here showing that Col. Tiffany foreshadowed events and mo- titied the military authorities of impend- ing danger on June 17th, and had his sug. gestions been followed there would have been no war. The papers are correct in charging the war on the machinations of the medicine man who was killed. Col. Tiffany telegrarhcd a warning to General Carr on June 17th, and subsequently, sug. gcsted the medicine mans immediate ar- rest, before he sowed the seeds of dissen- sion broadcast among the Apaches, but his warning was treated as an Indian scare, and all his subsequent information on Indian deviltry received the same in. attention.
 These statements are not mere defence of Col. Tiffany, for have seen the docu. ments proving what say His official record is complete md creditable to him as an officer, and when published will con. vince his bitterest defamers that he is not responsible for the present outbreak. Though his warnings to the military au- thoritics were disregarded, yet when the outbreak occurred he was active in his CO., operation with. the War Department and aided them with the means at his com. mand. All the arrests of hostiles made so far have been made by him, and they were unconditional, no immunity being prom ised, but the Indians were impressed with the idea that they must be tried and if guilty punished. After turning these hos tiles over to the military authorities all of them have been psrolcd, but the Indian Agent cannot be blamed for that as the officers acted Independently of him.
 But enough of the Indian troubles. Let us turn to the agency business proper Last Friday rations were distributed to 4G02 Indians. On Thursday the count was made carefully and rations tickets is. |, sued. The rations were of the best quail. ] ty. The beef would have graced the butcher shops of Tucson; the sugar, coffee. flour, soap, etc., were tirst.olass. Full weights and measure were given and the Indians were we'll satisfied. The business of the office is conducted on mercantile principles, and Messrs. Willard and Mann always have their books open to inspec. tion. My conclusion is that the business at the Agency is conducted honestly and economically, the Indians are satisfied; also that the present troubles arc result of the deep seated hatred of the White Noun, tain Apaches to the whites, fomented by the ambition of the dead medicine man to be the big chief of the tribe, and that the San Carlos Agent deserves the thanks of he people rather than the generations of newspapers