Arizona silver belt., 1883-03-31
Saturday, March. 3l. 1888.
AN OPEN LETTER
rs sAe sa. Carlos Indian Agent.

To tAs San Carlos Indian Agent.
 Last week 1 could not reply to you --I was absent--this week 1 can and d., and I will not be "vapory and in- oohefent" either. Your letter of de- fbnss, as it ia called, is worthy of you. When you wrote it you knew that you wsrs, not fighting fair battle, that it was tissue of lies, and an outrage upon tho community which endorses the men you slandered. You cannot hurt them. You deny but one of the charges. and proving you false in other respects, I believe you false in that Let me show you where you have lied. .
 5 You say that Cornell "harbored John. D. Burgess, who was driven from tho reservations" have before me a copy of your letter accepting his res ,, ignation.
 ~ "Hackney is the editor," you say, ssawho defended Tiffany, when the peo- i spleSof Globe wanted him executed, {, and whose paper was silenced by threats to throw'i it in the street." So ' far as Tiffany is concerned, the BELT 'is willing to abide the decision of the court which tries him as an endorsa- ton or condemnation of its friendli- ness to him. It is a foul libel on the people of this town to say they wanted him executed. This paper has never been ,silenced. It has always worked without fear, and it has never asked for favor.
 You call Fisk "the financial mana ger of the syndicate that pretended to ' purchase coal lands from the Indians" :, He had no interest in it beyond that of receiving his commission as banker for money advanced on draft. know whereof I speak.
 You call Stevens member oftthe "bull.whacking fraternity, who has risen to the position of train master" Stevens is a young man who is favor ably known in central and southern Arizona. He had charge of the branch house of Buckalew < Ochoa in this town until the firm closed business. He is in Mir. Buckalew's employ now. If the statement were true, however, that he had risen from a lower posi- tion to higher one, it is certainly the reverse of what you have done; be- cause you have descended from Mar shal of Colorado to a herder of Indians at San Carlos.
 You say that Henderson "yelps with the pack, because you refused to give him the hides for which he had bar gained with Wood" Don't you know that you not only gave the hides, but that you ordered an Indian to pick out such as Mir. Henderson condemned Don't you know, also, you consum' mate hypocrite, that you are selling hides, now, to this same MI. Henderson You say that Parker was ordered to leave the reservation by Captain Crawford, for being drunk,"--that may be true--but don't you remember that he. was acceptable to you, when Wood asked you for permission to send him to the sub-agency to look after hi: stock? and don't you remember, also that you asked Capt. Crawford to allow him to remain?
 Again you are truthful when you say that "Wratten was expelled from the reservation by you;" but in doing so you deprived the government whose official you are, of man who under stood the customs, language ant haunts of the Indians, and whose char acter was never impeached before.
 As for my senior, Judge Hackney he will live.in the hearts of those wht know him when you will be keeping company with the man in the new testament who wanted Lazarus to pas the water to him.
 l can always fight better for m. friends than myself, and would vii lingly stop here, but in your pleasan sketch of me you do some injustice :! You say that have "been but shor time in Arizona" When you, sir, wcr' ititoasting your shins at governmen
 stove in Denver, and fattening upoi s;pnblic pap, I was standing in the col' |, and the wet, on the frontier. I hav' rsReen. with short intervals, six years il ;:s:Arisons. ::
 :, You say that I "cook beans in a bacl
 room, made to do duty as sanctum
 kitchen and bedroom" The BELT i
 only . country newspaper, and VI
 have not all the conveniences VI
 would like, but we have three. rooms