To most people in Yavapai County and even the entire Arizona territory, the news produced a shock as great as an earthquake.
On March 1, 1878, Samuel C (“SC”) Miller along with his brother Jacob (“Jake,”) were arrested causing “great excitement here in financial circles,” the Phoenix Weekly Herald reported. “They are charged with endeavoring to put property out of their hands with intent to defraud creditors. Much of their business seems to have been transacted in a loose way.” Those who were owed money from the brothers rushed to court, and the pair were declared insolvent and bankrupt.
