Arizona silver belt. [volume] (Globe City, Pinal County, Ariz.) 1878-19??, 1883-08-25
Saturday, August, 25, 1888.
History Nindicatcd.

ldtleI pciooh, py poiihissiOu VI lne
writer of it, sent over the wires to the
Associated Press. We published
it as means of preserving a lit.
crary curiosity from the pen of one
who, from his official position and ma
ture years, we were led to believe was
a man of discretion and sound iudg-
ment, but in so supposing, we are free
te confess, we were in error. He can
now see that he is simply the dupe of
Wilcox and Teller; that his utterances
are now used by Teller as a defense of
his political and personal friend, Will
cox, whom he refused to investigate
upon written charges supported by
numerous affidavits. The following
is TeAer's statement:
"fhere were some few complaints of
irregularities always coming in, but
they were trifling. AS to the admin
istration of ex-Marshal Wilcox at San
Carlos, it has proved satisfactory in
every respect. The white residents of
the reservation and vicinity who had
so unjustly abused the agent had been
removed, in accordance with the sug-
gestion of General Crook, who stated
that their absence would be more ben
e6cial than the presence of a regiment
of troops. These men were thieves
and marauders, and General Crook, in
making his report of the condition of
affairs there, claimed that if the for
mer agent had not been displaced
when he was, there would have been
the greatest Apache outbreaks ever
known to the history of the country"
AS Gen. Crook, and not Agent Will
cox, has run the agency since his arri.
val in the Territory, we must conclude
that the claimed prevention of the
greatest Apache outbreaks ever known
to the history of the country, was
written and published as covert
compliment to himself. The agent
t'riffanyl he refers to, was not dis
placed, but resigned, and is the same
agent who was unqualifedly endorsed
by Generals Sherman, Mckenzie and
Carr, and which, if at all skeptical,
Gen. Crook will find to be true, by
reference to the files of the New York
Herald. 1t may be news to General
Crook that the concentrations of Col.
Tiffany, by the generals referred to,
was based upon a full knowledge Of
the fact that the White Mountain In
dians who turned upon Carr's COM
inand, August 80 1881, and killed
Capt. Hentig, and ten private soldiers,
were all (about 65) captured by Agent
Tiffany-not one by the troops-and
turned over to the military as prison
ors of war, and who, through culpa-
ble neglect, allowed them to escape.
Tiffany second time effected their
arrest, and second time, in our pres
ence, turned them over to Captain
Stacy; Lieutenant Abbott receiving
them, after being counted by DR..
Pangburn and Sam. Bowman. Among
the number were Dead Shot, Skippy
and Dandy Jim, who were subsequent
ly tried by court martial, and hung by
the military at Fort Grant. The
night following the evening of the
second surrender of prisoners by
Agent Tiffany, to Captain Stacy, Nam
ti-u-tesch and nine of his men again
escaped, and were not again taken as
prisoners. Gen. Wilcox reported to
Gen. Mcdowell that all he had of the
original number-47-were captured
Sy one of his officers, Major Sanford.
Major Sanford has not, and will not,
say so. He gives the credit of the
capture to Agent Tiffany, where it be-
longs, as has also Captain Stacey and
Lieutenant Abbott. Captain Stacey
remained in charge of the prisoners
until they were ironed, and hauled
away from San Carlos in wagons, and
guarded by three companies of caval-
ry, commanded by Major Sanford.
The Indians here referred to, are the
same who were taken to Camp Lowell.
We also know Shat the injudicious
action of Gen. Willccx was the cause
of the Chiricahuas leaving the sub
agency for Mexico, and we further
know that Col. Tiffany wired Gen.
Wilcox, who was at Camp Thomas, Il
warning of what would be the result
of sending troops to the sub-agency,
where the Chiricahuas were, in their
then excited state, and that military
officers then at San Carlos, coincided
in the view expressed by Tiffany to
Gen. Wilcox. The Gbique affair, and
the pursuit of the Chirieahuas, with
out results further than the capture of
q little girl, cost, as officially stated,
the United States $i3S,5O0. The
troops were not to blame. They could
and would have prevented the
Chiricahuas, who were accom-
panied by their women and children,
and otherwise encumbered by large
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