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Mrs. Phil Bother Of Livingston.
Montana. 10 visitinE In Canon City as
the guest Of her sister. Mrs- Hiram
Baekus. and family At iisi River
street. Mr.. Botisr Il sarouts hone
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Sweaters
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-01-06
LEGAL.


NOTICE FOR PROPOSALS.
Sealed proposals win be recsived on
a. M. by the mayor and commissioners Of
the City Of Topeka. Kansas. for the srec-
ton OF = new fire station TOR City OF To-
avenue and Gordon street In said city.
Each bid must be Accompanied by 4
certified check for two per cant (17b) Of
the amount Of said bid; drawn g The Or.
Topeka. Kansas Al a forfeit to the seid
city in case the bidder to whom award
for . contract shall be made. shall not.
within ton days after each award. enter
into tho contract and furnish acceptable
surety company bond for the full amount
OF the contract a. hereinafter required
to the city q good and sufficient surety
company bond to be approved by the
mayor and commissioners In an amount
TONED for the faithful performance Of the
contract and such bond shall also In
demnify the city against any loss or dam
on account Of injury to person or prop
eFty rights. caused or permitted by said
contractors or their employees.
Contractors Win also be required to FUR
nish a good and sufficient surety company
bond to the State Of Kansas in an amount
equal to the total amount Of the contract
conditioned that such contractor shall pay
material furnished In the matter Of such
public improvements. Such bond shall be
filed In the office OF the clerk Of the dis
tr1ct court of Shawnee County, Kansas.
All OF said work and material furnished
shall be in accordance with the plans and
specifications for the same prepared by
L. M. Wood, architect, 6z7 Kansas avenue
City Of Topeka, Kansas.
Plans and specifications for the building
now ready at the office of the architect.
Right IL reserved to reject any or all
bids.
BY order Of the mayor and commission
era Of the City Of Topeka, Kansas.
CSealJ G. b. BURGE,
City Clerk
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SSsA4S:
true and correct copy Of the ORIGINAL nev
Iseal.l c. B. RURGE. City c,srs.
First published in the Topeka 61a19
Journal January I. Dial
RESOLVED. That the mayor ana ho.ra
Of commissioners Of the City of Topekn,
Kansas, deem 1t necessary for the best
interests Of said city that Willow ave.
nue. to the west line Of the alley runnina
north and south between Shawnee avenue
and Underwood aYenpa, be &xan01u-
s snsDs eave wita s~s g. - - >, ~ =
yttrifiea bioehs
1. C. b. Burgo1 11ey e1eek 81 the Galy :
Topeka. Kansas. do hereby certify thai.
true snS correct eopy q the or1nai
[seall C. q BURoE,
RESOLVED. That the Mayor ana Board
Of Commissioners Of the City Of Topeka.
terests Of said city that Huntington ave.
nue. from the west line Of Harrison street
to the east line of Topeka avenue. b
gutter. and paved twenty-six (1O feet
wide with asphaltic concrete ON four "a
- W. q. rANDY, Commissioner.
1. G. B. Burge. city clerk of the City Of
Torcka. Kansas. do hereby certify that
the above and foregoine resolution h :
(SeaL] c. b. BUR0E,
City Clerk.
RESOLVED. That the Mayor ana Bosro
Of Commissioners Of the City Of Topeka,
Kansas deem It neos..ary tor the best in-
from the south line Of Fourth street to
the north line Of Sixth street. be graded,
and paved twenty-sfx 90 feet wide With
asphalttc concrete on q four % inch con-
W. Q. TANDx.
!, C. b. Burge. city clerk Of the CITY q
Topeka, Kansas. do hcreby certify that
the above and foresoinS resolution = =
[seaLl c. B. BURoE. city Clerk.
Thirst published IN The Topeka state
Journal January 5. 1914
once Of the City clerA
Topeka Kansas. December 80. 1S11
PROPOsAIA-
office Of the City Clerk until nine thirty
O'Clock o M. Thursday. January 8, 1114.
for the heating. plumbing and gas fitting
az per plans and specifications ON file In
the once Of the City Clerk. for ERE
The heating. plumbing and gas fttine
win be let in one. contract and the electrie
wiring VIII be tet in another.
Each bid must b accompanied By =
$500 dollafs drawn 70. the order Of The
Treasurerof the said City of Topeka.
Kansas. ~ = forfeit to the said City q
contract shall be made. shall not, within
ten days after such award, enter into
the contract and furnish acceptable sure
Sc aes ne ful amount OF
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BILLIARD AND POCKHY TABLES.
FOR sALE-New and secondhand carom
and pocket billiard tables and bowling
alleys We lead the world in cheap dx-
lures: easy payments. Send Tor catalogue.
Brunswick BaIke-Collender Co.. lSzD-0
Main street. Kansas City. No.
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WANTED E'EMAIE HELP.
BRIGHT young woman can secure PIotr-
able employment by addressing L. N. Co.
care Journal.
WOMENL6iet government Jobs. Big pay.
List positions available-free. Franklin
Institute, Dept 625 j.. Rochester. N. T.
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G. B. Bur1e. city clerk o. the city ok
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Evening star., 1914-07-26

as servants. Indeed. l myself have
bought girls and boys ranging in age
from two to twelve years. At times have
taken them in out of pity to give them
a home. and at other times because I
wished to them as servants. Such
buying is more after the form of
lease than in the way of regular bar
gain and sale. 1t is like the binding out
clothes, as was once common in some
parts of our United States.
when times are hard or famine comes
the Indian fathers or mothers will
often bring in their boys and girls and
ask you to raise them as servants
They will expect from ten to twenty
Bolivianos for them. or s. to $40 III gold
There are regular contracts made Tor
this purpose, and part of the con-
tract reads that they shall have the right
to take the child back upon the payment
to you of 10 cents per day for every
day you have had it. This repayment
is "a sheer impossibility, and the pur-
chase of the child means that you have
the right to it until 1t grows up: inc
law provides that you must tram the
child and teach it to read and write
1t also provides that it must be well
treated, but this depends upon the
caprice of the purchaser. Many of the
servants are gotten that way.
Practically all the domestic labor of
La Paz and other cities of Bolivia is
done by the Aymara Indians. In some
cases they are paid wages and in others
they get nothing but their board for
their work. In the latter instances the
servants are pongos, who are sent in
from the country to do certain
amount of work for their masters, who
live in the city. The leases by which
the Indians hold their little homes and
lands provide that they may be sent
from time to time into the town to
work as house servants. Such periods
are limited to week or SO for each
person, and in some of the houses of
La Paz the servants are changed every
two weeks, new one coming to relieve
the old A land owner with Il
large number of Indians his estate
may agree to furnish you house Sort-
ant for a year, sending man after man,
in relays 1t were, to fill up the
time. When the pongo comes to work
in his masters house he usually brings
with him enough bags of llama manure
to serve as fuel for the cooking during
his stay.
While there he carries all the water,
brings the vegetables and meats home
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from the market, and it is his business
to empty the slops and clean the pots
and pans. There are many of these
pongos on the streets of La Paz. They
go along half double carrying great
copper or clay water Jars on their
backs. They act as the watchmen of
the houses, sleeping at night on the
stones inside the door that leads to
the street. and they must get up and
open to the people who go out or come
in. They do all sorts of drudgery, and
some kinds that servants of other
classes will refuse to do. Indeed, one
may have twenty other servants, but
he must still have his pongo.
Notwithstanding these hard condi-
tfons, the Indians are attached to their
masters They will work for them for
little or nothing rather than for a for
eigner who may pay them good wages.
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WonEN Or THE hATEAU
OF BOLIVIA

The huts OF the Aymara Indians are
scattered over the plateau. and also
high up on the slopes of the Andes.
They are usually in villages, but some
houses are more than fifteen or twenty
feet square, and some only eight or
ten Sometimes a family may have a
half dozen houses inclosed by a mud
wall. but the most of the buildings are
for the stock, and as rule the family
uses but one. 1t is not easy to enter
such homes.
The Indians do not like strangers, and
in making my Investigations 1 have
had them show fight and warn me to
leave. Such huts as 1 have seen into
are little better than pig pens. They
have walls low that you can reach
the thatched roof without effort, and
the single door is so small that you
have to Stoop to go in. The floor is the
ground, and the furniture is only a
few skins and a little mud stove or
oven, built up in one corner. The fuel
is the manure of Ilamas and sheep. and
pots. which are used not only for boil
ing and stewing. but for cups saucers
and plates. There is no outlet for the
smoke but the door, and it blackens
the roof and the walls.
The Aymaras sleep on llama skins
laid on the floor. They have no night
clothes. and wear the same garments
at night as during the day They usu-
ally sleep sitting. hacking themselves
up against the wall. and drawing as
closely together possible. in order
that all may get under the blanket, and
so that the heat of their bodies may
aid in keeping them warm.
Where there are several huts the
cooking is done outside the homes. and
sometimes an oven is built aga nst the
wall, having a cover perhaps to pro-
tect it from the wind and the snow.
The food Of these Indians is simple.
a favorite dish is stew known as
challona. made of dried mutton. The
sheep is killed and skinned. The body
is then split open and laid out fiat
and left out of doors to be frozen. The
next night it is sprinkled with water
and frozen again. 1t is then hung up
to dry. Ii does SO without spelling
and soon becomes so tough and hard
that it will keep for months. When
used it is cut into bits and boiled a
long time. Vegetables are cooked with
it. and often some chuno. The latter
is frozen potatoes. which are prepared
in such a way that they will keep quite
as long as the dried mutton. This is
done by soaking the raw potatoes in
water and then allowing them to freeze.
Evening star., 1914-07-26

the Bolivian wanted to force him to
sell it cheap. 1t adjoined his property
and was especially desirable on other
accounts. He asked the foreigner his
price and was told that it was $4,000.
He wanted it much cheaper and in
order to make him sick of his bargain
he melted his Indians to stone those
of the foreigner. They did so, but the
foreigner made such brave fight that
the Bolivian came to him and offered
The foreigner replied: II will sell you
the farm, but the price has risen 1
offered 1t to You month ago for S15,-
600, but after what you have done you
cannot have it for less than $50, 900"
II will take it," was the reply. IT have
had enough trouble about this already
and rather than have more l will pay
what you ask"
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They make their masters grievances
their own. and are ready to engage in
any battle If instigated by them. This
often causes feuds between the Indians
Of neighboring farms. and gun fights
and stone fights are common. The
stone fights are usually by means of
the sling, which is the natural weapon
of the Aymara. He uses it to keep his
sheep from straying from the flock
He hunts with it, and from behind his
hut watches for his enemy and sends
rock crashing through his brain.
Not long ago there was a big stone
fight between the Indians Of two plan
tations, one belonging to a foreigner
and the other to native Bolivian. The
foreigner had bought the estate and
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looked as ii he certainly must be thrown,
frock coat and all.
The newspapers were filled with pic
lures of Lord Lonsdale, too. as one of
the gayest of the big Bohemia crowd at
the recent Fleet street revel. fishing for
chocolate boxes, with rod and line.
from box which he shared with Ethel
Levy, the American actress. and a lot
of other footlight folk. and since then
We have heard of him at the opera. at
the first performance of Signor Marti-
nettfs weird futurist noise-making ma
chimes at the Coliseum. at Ascot. and
many other places. How he does it at his
age is a riddle, the answer of which prob
ably is to be found in the healthy, open
air life of fox hunting. yachting. driving,
racing and travelling which he always has
led and which has taken him all the way
Evening star., 1914-07-26

raised in Cumberland last year, fully one
third of which came from Lord Ions
dale's mines. to show that his income
from the latter alone must be magnifi-
cent. Incidentally. the earl is a cousin
of the present speaker of the house OF
commons. the Rt. Hon. James Lowthe
NJ. p, and has as n couSin-in-law one OF
the most charm ns and brilliant of the
many American women who have formed
matrimonial alliances with the British
nobility. The latter, who prior to her
marriage was Miss Alice Blight. the
daughter of Atherton Bl ght O: Philadel-
phia, is now the wife OF Sir Gerard Iowth-
ther, who until recently vas British am
bassador to Turkey and previously to
Spain. and who is the second son of the
Hon. William Lowther, the latter being
Lord Lonsdale's uncle.
=
The present speaker of the house is the
elder of the Hon. William Lowther's two
sons. and is recognized as of the
most brilliant and impartial men who ever
presided over the deliberations OF the
house. Both he and Lord Lonsdale are
on the best Of terms with their charming
American kinswoman whose philanthropy
&c activities have. of course, made her re-
nowned throughout Europe, and who, in
cidentally. is the author OF two books
Lord Lonsdale has a big double house,
filled with art treasures. in plutocratic
Carlton House terrace. a castle In Cum
berland, the sumptuous hunting box al
ready mentioned. Barley Thorpe. al Oak
ham. and, as has been stated. his three
big racing establishments. But it is at
stately old Lowther castle, near PEN
rith. that he and Lady Lonsdale consider
most delight in entertaining their guests
This majestic pile" as Wordsworth
called 1t IN a sonnet, is a treasure house.
in the true sense OF that much-abused
word of beautiful and costly things. The
furniture Is all Old French and came from
the palace at Versailles The collection
of pictures ana statuary Is rivaled by
few in England. ana the state bedroom.
which the kaiser has occupied on each
of his visits. is a truly gorgeous apart
ment. 1t has a gigantic four-poster in
ebony and ivor:- hung with japanese cur
tainS of untold value. for they were man.
ufactured especially for the Lowther who
reigned at the castle when the trade first
was opened with the then unknown Ja-
pan. and its walls are hung with rich
Gobelin tapestries.
When the kaiser last visited Lord
LoISQGie ne Drought d retIilus ol more tnan
eighty persons, yet the castle housed
them all with the greatest ease Will
helm III then enjoyed one of the most
extensive shooting drives in which he
ever has taken part, and 1t was cur
rently reported on the estate that it
had cost the earl an enormous sum to
rear the geo eco partridges and pheasants
which provided sport for the imperial
guest
In connection with this visit the
writer has heard a rather amusing and
quite characteristic tale. The august
guest was always attended at a shoot
ing party by an escort of mounted
police. One day Lord Lonsdale himself
f~ontinued on Ninth Pageo
Evening star., 1914-07-26

of red men upon the plateau of Bolivia:
They are numbered by hundreds of
thousands. and altogether are twice as
many as the Indians of the United
States. They belong to a race that is
said to antedate the Incas. and to have
been so powerful that the Incas were
never able to subjugate them as they
did the other Indian nations that
American continent. After the Spaniards
got possession of the country, the
Aymaras were enslaved, and they are
In what might be called condition
of peonage not unlike that which pre-
vailed in the days of feudalism. Much
of Bolivia is still feudal country.
and the men and women are practically
which they live. The fact that the
law permits them to leave upon the
payment or transfer of their debts does
not alter the matter: for it is known
that their attachment to their homes
is such that they will not do so. Many
of the Indians on the industrial farm
near Lake Titicaca- wnom our ms
sionaries are now trying to civilize,
tions. and they have always done a
certain number of days work every
week for the right to stay there and
cultivate the lands allotted to them.
L He SAME cOiultlonS Oh tenure prevail
upon most of the large Bolivian farms.
The Indians give two or three days of
each week to the owner of the land, and
they are allowed the remaining days for
themselves. They receive no pay for
their work except the ground rent of
the places where their huts stand and of
the little patches which they are
allowed to farm. If their master
needs only a part of the time
he has the right to hire them out to
Others and if they do not obey them
he can infiict certain punishment upon
them. 1t is against the law to strike
an Indian. but as one Englishwoman
tells me. such striking is perfectly safe
If it is done when there are no white
witnesses present. as the courts will
never accept the statement of an Indian
as against that of a white. This woman
has been living in different parts of Bo-
llvia- She says that system OF child
slavery is common in the highlands and
districts of both Peru and
Bolivia. and 1 understand that it pre-
walls in some parts of Ecuador as well.
Said she:
There is no doubt but that Indian
children are bought and sold to be used
Evening star., 1914-07-26

one of the mightiest as well as one of
the richest mobiles in Great Britain. the
intimate friend of the German emperor
and the frequent host of English ROYALTY
but best known the world over. Der
haps. a very Admirable Crichton of
sport Of all kinds, of which he is one of
The most generous of patrons and upon
which. probably, he is one of the great
est authorities living.
1t is, however, as one of the liveliest
Of veterans that the earl, who has been
i'll the United States too many times TO
need any formal Introduction to Ameri-
can readers. most appeals to ones imag-
ination today. In spite of his fifty-seven
years this wonderful old aristocrat, who.
as hereditary Admiral of Cumberland
and Westmoreiand and Lord Warden OF
the West Marches. is virtually king of
has been master of the famous Cottes-
more and Quorn hunts. who is one of
the most prominent members of the
Royal Yacht Club, the Jockey Club and
the F'our-in-Hand Club. and who is veri-
tably the life and soul of the National
Sporting Club-the national temple of the
fistic arts today as lively as the pro-
verbal cricket. Rare is the first night
the fancy dress ball. the sporting event
or the society bohemian stunt of any
kind, by day or by night from which
he is missing. and It takes lively spark
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What the Army Is
Doing-A Nation of
Slaves Who Are Con-
tented With Slavery.
The Great Estates and
Their Poems - The
Pongo or Indian Dish
Washer Who Works
Without Pay-A Look
at an Aymara Hut.
His Queer Food and
How 1t Is Cooked.
Have the Indians Nat
ural Ability? - The
Outlook for the Fu-
ture.
Copyrighted. 1914 by Frank 6. Carpenter
IA pA1 Do1;,-;,
Evening star., 1914-07-26

SuperSt1t1OnS interviewer with the GUS
toms Of medieval Christianity. The
government has schools, but the Indians
do not attend them. and not one in a
hundred can read and write. Thousands
of them are in state of debt slavery,
and tens of thousands are SO sodden
with alcohol and cocaine that for the
most of the time they are little better
than beasts. The government has estab-
lished compulsory system of educa-
tion. and it has thrown the schools open
to all Bolivian children. Nevertheless.
but few of the Indians go to school.
and not one in a hundred has any am
bition to rise above his present con-
dition.
One of the new movements for the ele-
Walton of the Indians has to do with
the reorganization of the Bolivian army.
Military service has been made compul-
sery for all between the ages of nine
teen and twenty-one. The selection of
the troop is made without regard to race
and in this way thousands of Indians
are being brought to the military bar
racks and schools from every part of the
republic. Here they are drilled by Ger
man officers and instructors. They are
taught to obey, and they learn to read
and write and do primary sums in arith-
metic- They are kept from drinking, and
they acquire such civilized tastes and
wants that when their military service is
over they are not contented to go back
to the senl!-savage life of their villages.
Those who do so carry the seeds of civ
ilization with them, and a crop of new
ideas and new customs is beginning to
Sprout.
have seen great many of these
Indian soldiers during my stay They
are fine-looking fellows and are said to
have good fighting qualities. They have
great powers of endurance and are noted
for their frugality and patience. The
only trouble is that the army is not
large enough to take in more men and
there has to be some wedding out of
those who volunteer to 20 into the serv-
Ice At first the Indians were afraid Of
the army, but they are now keen to
serve.
ALL the above statements relate to
the Aymaras. They are the chief nation
Evening star., 1914-07-26

Jones, who harried Whitehaven to some
purpose in ITS, and from free-booting
lowland Scots. who often swept down on
these northern counties and carried off
prisoners and cattle into their fastnesses,
leaving burning villages and ruined crops
to mark their path. In the aggregate,
the Lowther estate consists of 1T5.G0
acres 1000 acres of which are in West
moreland and 25.GoO in West Cumberland,
in addition to which their proprietor owns
the soil and sporting rights of over 100000
acres of common land.
tully seven villages in the former coun-
ty,. with an aggregate population of 5000
inha abitants, are embraced in that estate,
while the busiest centers of West Cum
berland own him as ground landlord.
1t Is not their agricultural estates, how
Evening star., 1914-07-26

ever. that have made the earrs family
one OF the wealthiest in the peerage. but
the coal mines OF Whitehaven and the
iron stone mines of West Cumberland
generally. In the case of the former, the
coal is leased to several big companies,
and as it is Of exceptionally good quality
and commands a ready sale, 1t pays a
royalty of D cents a ton to the earl
And as the output exceeds 62o.e0o tons
per annum. or 206G tons per working
day, some idea may be gathered OF the
goodly income derived from this source
alone.
These Whitehaven mines, it may be
mentioned, have the distinction of being
the deepest in the kingdom. and, in the
case of at least two, of being worked for
more than two miles under the bed OF the
sea- AS for the iron mines, 1t need only
be said that 1,155.431 tons of iron ore were