Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-03-25
What Agent Wilcox Bas to Say.

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 -- What Agent Wilcox RaS tO Say. '- Indian Agent Wilcox has made defense to Secretary Teller. against thu f charges of being interested in a trader
 store at the San Carlos Agency. e The charge was made by Donald ], Robb, of Globe, Arizona, backed bl lffidavits of four persons who claim tC [ have good cause to believe that A1.--' , Wlcnr purol.s-seJ the store ot HiSt Brothers with it's stock of goods, on his , own account. In lengthy affidavit reciting all the circumstances attending the purchase of the store by John A. Showalter, his sor-in-law. Agent WilcOz
 denies having any interest ID that or any other store on the reservation, and iu-
 trOduces the sworn statements of John
 H. Hise, of whom the store was pur- chased; John \. SnOWalter, the pur-
 chaser. II. H. COllahan, HIse's clerk;
 and James \. Taggart and C. B. Ayres.
 wnO were present when the transfer was
 made and who helped to take an ac-
 count or the stock; all Of whom assert,
 m positive terms, that nothing was sad
 by Agent Wilcox tO indicate that be
 had, or exPe ted tO have, any interest ID
 the store, but, on the contrary, that they
 bad good reason Co believe that John A
 ShOwalter was the sole owner. ShOwal-
 ter's own affidavit asserting this Co toe
 true.
 In his letter to Secretary Teller, which
 accompanies the a;ii1avits, after a gen erdl review of the case, Agent MIlcO1 goes for his traducers lu the following | language:
 "Placed m position where au answer to the vapOry ard incOhereut letter uI complaint of Donald RObb is made uec- essary, l see no other way Of perform 1 ing disagTeeab.e duty except by OppOs- ing the dIgnIfed and candid statements | Ot honorable gentlemen tO the dnbble Cf | disFeputable knaves who, without eX- l ceptlOn. have been subjected tO merlted 1 agency discipline and warning, and who,
 because of their animal instincts ot
 malIce, have taken up as mOuth-pieces | of the fellows referred to by General ! Crook iu hIs letter to you Of the 33d uiI us the remnants of the old Indian ing If | this Territory-vampires who fattened or the blood of their fellow creatures l These assaults have been made upon | ne, and these hounds hlssed on by C. y. | Cornell, Indian trader; \. E. Hac ckney. | editor Belt, newspaper Globe; J. C. | Tiffany, eX-lndian agent, and Reuben | Wood, Indian adef; a corrupt cabGl | joined together by common interest of | plulder, ID lnlon cGmented by tue near prospect of being driven from theIr prey. CJunell IS the man who haTbOrcd that blOtch upon society, John D. Burgess, wno was driven from the reservation for selling firearms to the Indians. It was Cornell who had Tn his employ that young rufiian. Wratten. who threatened to use hIs influence with the Indians tO have me assasslnated.
 Hackney IS the editor who defended Tiffany when the citizens Ot Gl be de manded the execution of that Christian philanthTOpist, and whose paper was si- fenced by threats to throw its plant m the streets.
 Fisk IS the financial manager of tue syndicate that pretended tO purchase the coal lands Ou the reservation for the payment of forty dollars per head to fourteen ignorant and deceIved Hndiau | chiefs. ! need nlnt tell you who IltfaBy is, ana I refrain iron. -r,4.--. tne hioss-
  bIlity Co do the subject justice.
 X glance at the pack that have done the paying and l am done:
 Donald RObO occupies the enviable position of reporter for country news. paper, and cook and SculliOn for it's edi tor. II HIckney: the worthy pair cooking their beans and islanders in back room made tO do duty as editorial sanctum, f~Ff fHaka .N NIfah hu.s hraH q short time m Arizona; has no interest m the Territory beyond that of luvying black mail on respectable citizens: k without brains or influence and could only have been prompted to write that < lily letter to Mir. Cox, by desire to ap- pear a mastlff in the eyes of his masters
 hough conscious he was only mangy cJr.
 William F.. Parker was discharged from the store of ShOwalter because he was not needed, and soon after, having been employed by Reuben Wood tO rub horses at a stage station, was ordered to leave the reservation by Capt. Crawford for being found among Indians In beastly state of intOxicasion.
 Wrattau. as before stated, threatened | to procure my assassination through the !. agency of his Indian friends, and was eN- 1 pelled from tine reservation by he.
 Stevens Is a member of a very respect !. able fraternity, known n the West as Bull Whackers," and by superior abili- ! ty in bis profession has raised himself to l the honorable degree of tain master. It I had been his custom tO come to the 1 Agency a week of more in advance of l hls subOrdinates, and spend the time !. until their arrival with his friend Ou- nell. l politely informed him that this practice must be discontinued, and that hke other white men he must pass on.
 1 dId not intend to refer to the afiida- wit Of D. Henderson, but having just learned the reason that impelled him to yelp with the pack" 1 give it. Un- known to me he had been purchasing agency hides through Wood, who, sup pose, vas the real purchaser, and when a few weeks ago, | refused to let Wood have them. Henderson was the man hurt.
 It will thus be seen that not an affida- vit has been made by any person rot having griveance, and that those who are not positively disreptuaDle of the number, have, ID order tO gratify their malice, been willing tO unite with as- sassins and drunkards in the miserable business Of attempting my ruin by Un- blushihg perjury"