Arizona silver belt., 1885-07-25
GENERAL CARFEToS's AaMsslsvn arass
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tho civil authorities could materially
 aid in subjugatiug refractory Indians. Tho plan although entirely feasible,
 not meeting the views Of she General
 who was unfrisudly with the Judge, afy
 forded the opportunity Of opening
 war upon him, which resulted in a
 defeat of the General, his coadfutols,
 Chief Justice Kirby Benedict } L..
 Collins, Superintendent of Indian Ar fairs and ". r, N, Arncy, Secretary
 and acting Governor Of Now Mexico,
 each of whom vontured an extended disqusition in writing to the General, taking strong grounds against tho
 proposition and learnadly, as they supposed, squelched tho legal aspect
 of the suggestion offered by Judgo
 Knapp, which brought forth 6 ringing reply from Knapp, dated BarFleys Fort, Dec 80th, 1862, which spiked
 Carleton $ guns and closed tho contro-
 versy so far as Carleton blatent sup porters Arney, Benedict and Collins
 were concerned. These four gentle
 men are long since dead Kuapp is stiH living a hale, hearty man of eighty and tho owner of an extensive orange plantation in Florida Upon reading our reference to tbe matteTi in tue BE1T he mailed us complete copies of the correspondence which as an his torical reniuiseence of tbe time re. ferrcd to are interesting and valuable, Carleton took a mean advantage to get even upon Knapp for the mental dru4bing he received at the hands Of the latter, by annoying him in every possible way, repeatedly placing hiln
 in the suardhouse aud upon one ocea- sion .hanGng hlm by tho wrists to a beam in the gusrdhouse, greatly to the delight of Benedict, Collins, Arney and their ilk, but tue brave old Judge with Spartan fogGtude tosght the crowd by publications posters which
 be was obliged to have printed in Denver, for lhe reason that no office m New Mexico was willing to brook the displeaSure of General Carleton
 who then reled New Mexico with an iron hand, notwithstanding New Mex leo was exempted from the rsbeilious districts by proclamation of President
 Lincoln, in obedience to law of Con-
 gress
 We stiil retain vivid recollection of the disgraceful military administra- ton General James II. Carleton in
 New Mexico and Arizona; of hs uu-
 lawful procedure in establishing lu;li- tary courts and resultant trials of civil
 and criminal eases at nma gL,en
 civil courts were in the performance
 of their several functions Citizehs
 were robbed of theh subsistence in the Mesilla Valley, in consequence of the
 military taking all the grain of iiti- zens. Don't %ua county vas graatly depopulatet'' md majority of the people ot tl@4s valley driven for sane
 tuary into s;zba state of Chihuahua
 Mexico, froh 3ae dreadful oppression
 of Carleton $Ls imprisoned citizens { for pretend$& #rences, forced them to do meuial ;;cu{ce without trial or conviction, Sui la order to replaaish
 his excheqp > 53sensed gambling, un-
 der preteSt it was necessary to
 establish a h,s'c?tal fund, and money
 so collected ia :tlutheru New Mexico
 and northw4sta%n Texas became a
 bone Of cont,nt an between Carlasou
 and General 6 B, West When
 Judge Knapp re',resentsd this state of
 affairs in Washi4 gton on behaIf of tile suffering people, he was dismissed, through Che influence of Judge Watts by Attorney General Bates, from the judgeship of the third judicial district of New Mexico to make room for q
 Carleton man, Joab Houghton, whc 1 filled the bill 50 far as assuming iurjs. dictiop in confscation casas outside of his bal,wlck, in El Paso county, Tesas, which resulted ip the condemnation and sale of an immense amount of valuable property; but notwithstaud- ing the sums so received, the limited
 States was the loser by upwards Of Sl00,000 more than the property sold for, by reason of bhe allowance by the court of excessive costs and the ilhgal retention of money by the [. $. Mar. shaI, who was subsequently indletei for malfeasance, but skippedt the eoun- try; not far, however, as he lodged iu Kansas, but was never brought to trial AS q fugitive from justice lie is still within the clutches of the law and therefore the present adninistra- ton should make t point so arrest and bring hila to jpstiee.
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 The following is q copy of the daily rations asued to the Indians at San Carlos g'ngeefourth lbs -four to each nlan. Mnrnair and child: from ] 10 la-