The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-17
Larned Doctor Writes of Con.
ditiOns During Revolution.
Dogs Eat Bodies of Dead Ma
tives in the Streets.
FEELING AGAINST AMERICANS
Some Escape From Country by
Sailing to Costa Rica.
Interesting Letter From DIR. A.
b. IngelS of. Kansas.

| Larned, Kan, April 17.-Dr. A. B.
Ingels, a physician who practiced in
Larned at one time has written to his
father, Dr. J. B. Ingels, a pioneer and
| financier of Western Kansas, letter
dealing with the situation in Mexico.
| This letter is one of the most interest
| ing ever written from Americas neigh
| Dor to the south and deals with facts
| that the average American knows
nothing about.
In connection with this letter, an eff
fort is being made to bring the son
back to his father as soon as possible.
Physicians state that unless the young
man returns to Larned the father will
die. Congressman Medley has been
asked to make every effort in in
fluencing the state department to con-
duct DR.. A. B. Ingels safely to the
American border.
The young doctor left Larned some
months ago to take charge of hos
by the American Smelling & Refining
company.
The letter follows:
'BOTICA DE ESTAVILLO." PRO-
PRIETARIO JOSE M. MUNOz.
April 4, 1913.
c. Jiminez, Chihuahua, Mexico.
Dear Father have your letter of
March %. 1t got in this morning.
Here is the situation: The Mexican
people in the first place are cross
between the Spanish and the Indians,
while great many of the poems, the
lowest class of the people, are further
crossed with the negro. They speak
patios that is neither Spanish or In
dian and not one peon in ten can read.
The poems outnumber the others about
10 to 1. The people who have money
have kept the poems in a state of star
0i-C1 la
In 1910 the poems had an uprising and
liberated themselves from Spain. Some
of the more energetic poems then took
offices by force and the country was
in a state of war until Don Porfirio
Diaz (who was himself a peon and
boosted of his Indian blood) seized the
reins of government and put down all
uprisings against him by hanging his
enemies.
Human Life Is Cheap.
Human life is the cheapest thing
there is in Mexico, so when this Diaz
person got his enemies safely and Sc
curely hanged he partitioned the land
among his friends and the old system
was in force again. One man would
have 4 or million acres of land that
he rented % the poems, getting enough
rent to enable him to live in Paris or
Madrid with all the money he could
spend while the sandal-foOted peon
with his burro and wife as co-workers
planted beans and hemp and sugar
cane to give to the boss. These land
owners kept administrators" on their
lands to see that the peon gave up his
share of the crop, and, as the peon
could not read or write, he was gen.
orally given the worst of it.
Poems Turned Bandits.
Many poems. unable to make a living,
turned bandits-the kind that robbed, |
killed and burned for t, pleasure of
the game So Diaz sent his troops, |
which were recruited from the prisons, |
against the bandits who, when caught.
We're hanged. 1t was an edict of the !
government that to cut down one of
these hanged bandits for burial was a |
capital offense. But the ancient and
occupation of banditism
flourished and grew for sometimes the |
soldiers were captured and III that case |
the bandits burned them alive by i'm |
prfsoning them in houses End setting |
them Attire.
Diaz got old and couldn't keep the |
people in leash any longer so Fran |
cisco I. Madero. a very rich land owner
and distiller, proclaimed a revolution |
and promised the poems fair treatment |
if his revolution was successful. The |
poems flocked to him and he was made |
president He had a lot of dissatisfied !
rebel leaders under him, for he was a |
cold, ambitious Individual. His peon |
reVolted and he mad a reVolu-
ton all the time he was in office |
He also made an effort to take the |
land from the old "ciertificos'' and he |
had two factions to fight. Madero was |
not a strong man so the rebels overran
the country resuming their former oc-
cupation as bandits and burned, looted
and killed to their hearts content. /
As an example EEL Indio' Mariana
was a Madero leader, who revolted be-
cause he was not made governor of
the state of Durango. Mariana can
neither read nor write, but why should
that disqualify him from being gov