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it jr, i fr lie W' f. THE WEEKLY REVIEW X. D. RAINBY. Publisher PHILIP SOUTH DAKOTA Are these aerial flights to carry the war to high heaven 7 The summer vacation la an obso lete Institution In Europe. This year the world Is finding so excitement a great bora. This year Is also notable for tha voracity and numbers of its mosqul- tf only all bathing girls were as al tering as the lass on the magazine The etar has called (or M* men, but be isn't anywhere near hla last moujik yet To avoid a bitter argument, don't ngree with the fellow who call* him* self a fool. War has brought down the cost of radium. This will cause a gasp of popular relief. Warnings to submarines are among the most important of tha summer "doo'ts" this year. Sharks and whales are now being mistaken fo^ submarines. It makes great flsb stories. Anybody who understands human nature can make predictions that are bound to come true. Making cotton contraband of war ti'ses it to the dlgnlt: formerly held hr the Missouri mule. Man has been known to reform fast to disappoint the neighbors, who aaM he was going to the devil. Children, like parrots, repeat what they hear—and often to tha embar rasement of their possessom. Still. It's pretty hard to see how a stitch in time could possibly save ikll In a modern bathing suit. All Is not war and turmoil. For In stance. there is sustained interest Is tha peaceful pursuit of checkers. When a woman says. "The more I know men the better I like dogs," the man she wqpted got away from her. Getting a sure enough heiress mar ried off Is almost as fussy a proceed ing as changing the map of Europe. If there are Just as The w I I fe & I 1. fer •fc fc- 6Jr». good sea as ever flsb In easiest things to mention the fc and most difficult things to forget are those fool remarks about the weather. What would vaudeville be without these dancers who try to sing and time singers who insist upon dancing? There is one comfort. When the history of the times comes to be writ tan tfre censors will have lost their Plb #6 always have something to loo* forward to with pleasure. In a few weeks it will be time to buy coal for wtetcr. There It a difference between com las to this country to become an adopted .son and coming to adopt the cfontry. The absence of Americas Iwrtiti would be snlBclent to account for tha lack of gayety la tha European It makes a follow foal pretty good trfcsa he recalls that ho never heard his father or mother denounce mar vtaf* aa a failure. has been added to tha dial rtT. •f Um fsderal prisoners at Atlanta, government la not handing out may to them. tha persistence with tha Italians "advance along tha thnt river mast he longer Ito only kind oC Choi that doaent '—i saeaM to be food for thotla iemi tfeMra ZEPPELIN MID ON LI EXPLOSIVES DROPPED AT RAN- DOM IN DARK, SAYS "IMPAR TIAL OBSERVER." NON-COMBATANTS ARE KILLED Recent Air Attacks By Germans Art Celled Complete Failuree So Far as the Moral Effect la Concerned. Sent. 20.—An official cription of some of the effects of the last Zeppelin raid upon the london district. written by an impartial ob server at the request of the home sec retary, Sir John Simon, and just issued for publication, follows: "While it is absolutely necessary in the Interest of public1 safety to main tain the rule that no unauthorized ac counts shall appear, the real character of the attacks will be better under stood from a collection of incidents, each verified on the spot and vouched for by the authorities as accurate. The home secretary takes this opportunity of stating explicitly that the total cas ualties resulting from these air raids have been correctly stated in all cases. The information is based puon an ex haustive inquiry by the police. Keep Locations Secret. "In a letter some months ago. First Ixrd of the Admiralty Halfour set forth the reasons which prevented the government from disclosing the exact localities in which damage has been done in the various Zeppelin raids. These reasons remain valid and there is no intention of departing from the rule adopted to prevent information be ing made available for the enemy, eith er ill regard to the routes taken or the places and buildings on which bombs were dropped. "The experience in the raids last week, combined with German official reports, demonstrate that commanders of German aircraft olten are grossly in error as to their movements and they have no means of estimating the effect of their promiscuous bombard liuOits, materially or morally. Women and Children Killed. "In every case where damage has been caused It the were caught, a pretty widow knows bow to land one of them was private property which suffered.^nd In most cases this has been of the small residential kind. Almost all the unfortunate people who have been killed not only were non combat.'nts of a class who hitherto, ill the honorable practice of civilized war fare, have been exempt from attack— women, children, small shopkeepers, workin-unen the sacriiice of whose lives serves no military purpose, either morally or materially. "The folly and futility of the raids last week may well be Imagined when It is remembered that the Loudon dis trict, taken for convenience as the area administered by the metropoli tan police, is just short of 7t square miles in area. It was by hastily drop ping, at random, in the dark, explo sive and incendiary material some where on this enormous surface, that the enomv professed to have accom plished an important military pur pose. No Public Buildings Hit. "The fact is that no public institu tion of any kind was hit. nor was any power station or arsenal. No damage was done affecting tho use ef any building connected directly or indi rectly with the conduct of the war. "It is true two hospitals narrowly escaped damage, but it is only fair to say In behalf of the ofheers of an army which has done its best to de stroy the cathedrals of Belgium and France, that up to the present they have succeeded in church. "So far as the hitting only one moral raid a complete failure." effect of the is concerned, it is feared that from the standpoint of Berlin it was TESTIFIES TO VOTE BUYING Indiana Publishsr Makes Startling Dlacloeures in Election Fraud Trial at Indlanapolla. Indianapolis, Sept. 10. Alleged aloctlon irregularities in tha Eighth precinct of the Third ward continue! to bo the subject of testimony intro duced by the state in tha trial of Mayor Joaeph E. Ball, charged wtth election conspiracy. The evidence in cluded statements as to how negro voters were prevented from register ing and aa to tha buying of votes. Lao K. halar. publisher and coun ty auditor-elect, testified ha saw Junes H. (Bod) Qlbeoa give money In two voters after they had coma out «C the pilling place, and also that ha Glbaon on election day re float Herman Adam, city sealer of weights ud of the indicted EUROPE ASKS U.S. INTENTION ENVOYS MAKE INQUIRIES Aft TO NEXT STEP IN MEXICO. No Decision Reached With Reepect to Recognition of Any Government to Southern Republic. WaifrtnRton, Sept. 18.—Informal In qulries have been made by some of the European governments as to the Washington administration's next step in the Mexican situation. Ambassador Jusserand of France had a long talk with Secretary l^an slng. Colville Barclay, the British charge d'affaires, discussed the situ ation with state department officials and notified them that orders had gone forth to British consuls to con sult with American consuls on the ad visability of withdrawing from North ern Mexico. From high official quarters it was learned that no decision has been reached with respect to the recogni tion of any government in Mexico, but the subject will be fully considered at the I'aii-American conference in New York. Carranza's Invitation Refused. It is understood that on account of a press of international affairs. Gen eral Carranza's invitation to the con ferees to meet him at some point on the border may not be accepted, but the suggestion of discussing with his representatives the international ques tions involved in the situation is likely to be met by an invitation to Carranza to send delegates here in stead. It is said to be the intention of the Pan-American conferees to give an audience also to representatives of other Mexican factions who already are en route to Washington so that before a final decision is reached the entire situation with respect to rec ognition may be carefully studied from all viewpoints. NEAR BILLION-BdSHEL YIELD U. 8. Farms to Yield 981,000,000 Bushels of Wheat, Federal Report Indicates. Washington, Sept. 17.—Material gains in the prospects for bumper ce real crops are disclosed In the De partment of Agriculture's monthly crop estimates. The department says: "General crop prospects in the I'nited States Sept. 1 were favorable, being somewhat above average. The corn crop improved slightly during August, especially In Nebraska. Kan sas and Missouri. It went back in con dition in the northernmost states and in the important states of Illinois and Iowa. The forecast of total produc tion. 2.9Sr,(iO(V»UO bushels, is G7,000,000 bushels more than forecast a month ago, and 312.000,000 bushels more than the final estimate of last year. The quantity fort cast at present has been exceeded in only one year, 1912. when the estimate was 3,12.".,000,000 bushels. "The spring wheat prospects im proved materially during August, the forecast Sept. 1 being 3J2,000,():»0 bu shels. lo.OOO.OOO more than the Aug. 1 forecast and 110,000,000 more than the liir.il estimate of last year. "Applying the present forecast of spring wheat to the estimate made last month In winter wheat, makes a tot il production of wheat indicated of !S 1.000,000 bushels, by far the largest amount ever produced in the United States, comparing with 891,000,000 bushels last year—itself a record—and 080,000,000, the average of tho past five years. MEXICANS ATTACK TROOPS Exchange Volleys With American Sol diers—Several Houses in Browns ville, Texas. Are Struck. Brownsville, Texas, Sept. 18.—Twen ty-five American soldiers exchanged volleys for half an hour with Mexi cans entranched across the river in Matamoros. 8everal houses in Brownsville were struck by bullets, but no casualties were reported. Brownsville, Sept. 18.—Another fight bet wee? United States soldiers and Mexicans has been reported. A United States cavalry patrol was flred on from the Mexican side of the river, near the Brownsville city limits. About 500 shots were flred. The cavalrymen had gone to the river to investigate the shooting of a Mexi can's horse on the American side. Mexicans entrenched in front of the electric power plant at MatamoroB flred across the river into Brownsville, killing a horse. Troop of cavalry haa to investigate. AM Allien. •apfc If.—vin the Third been ordered to tha river Austrlana Sink British Transport. Vienna, Sept 18.—(Via Berlin* by wireless to Tuckerton, N. J.) few days ago in tha southern Adriatic, sooordtng to aa announcement made her* With Turkey Oppeesi Pnrig, Bept IS.—A dJspntch tfti fity BwfrMeet says of al tho sppsalHon parties to n aonttnc at whic* tnpnMlefc an nppoal to wm fee LOAN FOR ALLIES ASSURED, BELIEF New York, Sept. 20.—Pourparieurs have Leen opened for having the pow erful firms of so-called Germanic con nection?? join in floating the greJft war lean. Kuhn, Lceb & Co. stand at the head of this influential class of bank ers. James J. Hill, the northwestern magnate, a close friend of the two facticr.e. was reported to have brought them together. Receipt in St. Paul of a telegram from James J. Hill, who is in New York acting as one of the principal.", in the billion-dollar loan negotiations with the allies, said that Mr. Hill would leave New York for home at once. TRYING TO BORROW A BILLION FOR ALLIES UHDtftWOOD UNOERVOOD Although the telegram contained no further information, bankers in the Twin Cites accept this as conclusive evidence that the gigantic deal with the English and French governments is assured, as Mr. Hill and J. I'ier pont Morgan have been the recognized leaders in the negotiations. New York newspapers and financiers who learned of the receipt of the tel egram In the Twin Cities were sur prised at the announcement that Mr. Hill had concluded his business. While he has indicated nothing definite, it is believed here that more than |500, 000,000 of the loan will be raised by Mr. Hill, Mr. Morgan and the New York bankers. Loan to Be Divided. According to those close to Mr. Hill the loan may be divided into three or four parts, one part for wheat in the West and Northwest, one for cotton in the South, one for provisions, and the fourth a nation-wide loan. It is said that the money that will be placed in the bank will be used only as pur chases are made, and that none of it will leave the country. Mr. Hill haa been insistent that the loan be made, and that it exclude munitions of An Austrian submarine commanded by Lieutenant von Trapp torpedoed and sank a largo British tranaport a war, and his associates say that the latter point is gained, al though Press dispatches aa*d it was still nn Issue. Bankers Hold Whip Hand. New York, Sept. 18.—The bargaining stage has been reached in the. negotia tions between tho Anglo-French mis sion and leading American bankers British telsure Stirs Wnehlnfton. Washington, Sept 11—filiene dis pleaanre over tho Brttiah prise oourt decision roaflsoattng 91S.00MM worth of Amertean sentn penspdep td—'Ht tratlon tlrdes. Wfcetfcer n sharp pro will be aai» Ir jfti atnto depart* the tUmi Aaoifc ?v' Representatives of England and France, who are in the United States for the purpose of negotiating a loan of a billion dollars for the allies, are shown in this illustration. J. P. Morgan (1), as financial agent of the Brit ish government, is acting as their host. The others are: (2) Sir Edward Holden of the London City and Midland bank (3) Sir Henry liabbir.gton Smith (4) Lord Reading, lord chief justice of Great Britain and head of the commission (5) Octave Homburg of the French foreign office (6) Basil B. Blackett of the British treasury (7) Ernest Mallet, regent of the Bank of France. JAMES J. HILL TO LEAVE NEW YORK FOR HOME AT ONCE, SAYS WIRE. TO EXCLUDE WAR MUNITIONS Bankers Split on Question of Including ftattle Supplies Among Export* to Be Paid for by Proceeds of Loan. DEVELOPMENTS IN THE BILLION DOLLAR LOAN AMOUNT OF LOAN. Half biiiion, or more. Commission seeks billion, or billion and half. DISPUTED POINTS. Pro-Germans and others would exclude munitions from exports to be paid for by loan. Commission insists on Inelttd ing munitions. American financiers split on this point. Commission would have Rus Sia participate. Bankers wish to deal with Rus sia direct. e e looking to the establishment of a huge credit in this country for the Allies. The delegation, headed by Baron Read ing, lord chief justice oi' England, came here with the idea of borrow ing a bil lion dollars. They have been told that they could get half that amount. BANKERS WOULD EXCLUDE WAR MUNITIONS EXPORTS New York, Sept. 18.—-The Anglo French financial commissioners who are seeking to establish a mammoth credit loan here, and American finan ciers. who expect to supply the money, are reported to be at odds over the burning question of including muni tions of war among exports to be paid for by the proceeds of the loan. On several details of the loan the commission and the bankers have agreed, but on this major question it was said their views are diametrically opposed. Further, It developed there is nn apparent split on the question in the ranks of the American finan ciers.. The commission's attitude, so far as it can be interpreted from a canvass of such bankers conferring with it as would talk, is that the big credit, whether a billion dollars or less, should provide funds for all exports and that munitions of war certainly should be included. ROCKEFELLER REFUSES TO TAKE PART IN LOAN New York, Sept. 18—The state ment of John D. Rockefeller that he would take no part in the Anglo French loan created an immediate sensation in New York financial cir cles. It was suggested that if the statement of the senior Rockefeller means that no part of the Standard Oil interests will participate in the loan, the tide of the war in Europe may be changed and the fall of one csar of American finance and the ele vation of another, may be Indicated. The Rockefeller statement immedi ately was taken to the offices of J. P. Morgan A Co. Officials there showed an eager interest in it and it was im mediately rushed to Mr. Morgan. Fif teen minutes later it was returned. Packers to Appeal Selmrt Chicago, Sept It.—Appeal to Great Britain's prlry council from the de ciaioar of the admiralty prise court, which has ordered seised over $2,000, werth aC sent cargoes, win ho towed kr Inalstenoe thnt the stnto do the thnt It lea DISMAL OF ACT U. 8. DELAYS ACTION Directed UNTH, fcVU DENCE ON ARABIC CASE REACHES GERMANY. ARBITRATION MAY FOLLOW Von Bernstorff Must First Show Bert In Why Officials Here Are Convinced Torpedoing of Arabic Was Not a Mistake. Washington, Sept. 17.—The Impree* sion Is growing that Germany may dis cipline her commander because of the "preponderance" of evidence against his individual judgment. This would be a practical disavowal. The state department is now dis posed also to accept the conclusions of the German admiralty that the steam ship Hesperian was the viotim Of a mine and not of a torpedo. Washington, Sept. 16.—Prospects for a favorable adjustment of the contro versies between the United States and Germany depend entirely on the atti tude which the Berlin foreign office will take toward the recommendations made by Count von Rernstorff, the German ambassador, following his con ference wtth Secretary Lansing. Details of the conference became known, throwing light on the critical point that had been reached in the re lations between the two countries. Tho Washington government was almost ready to sever diplomatic relations, but decided to delay taking any step until Germany could be furnished the evidence in its possession on the Ara bic case. Evidence Is Conclusivs. The evidence which has been sub mitted by the I'nited States is regard ed here as proving conclusively that unless she submerged to launch the torpedo against the Arabic, the Ger man submarine was concealed behind the sinking British steamer Dunsley and could not have been seen by the captain of the Arabic. Furthermore, it is shown that the Arabic was struck in such a way that the submarine must have been at right angles from her when the torpedo was lired, instead of in a position to make ramming by the liner a possibility. Should Germany fall to satisfy the American demand for disavowal, indi cations were that the Washington gov ernment would follow its original pur pose to sever diplomatic relations. TEUTONS STRIKE NEW BLOW Next Campaign Probably Will Be Against Italy or Serbia, Is Belief. Rotterdam, Sept. 18.—The central powers are preparing plans for a new campaign that shortly will turn the at tention of the world from tho front upon which they have concentrated such tremendous efforts duriirg the past six months. Just where the new blow will fall has not leaked out. A close censorship on newspapers and s levying of new restrictions on trans frontier transportation were the first indications. Advance Into Russia Stopped. The Teutons have no idea of prose cuting further their advance into Rus sia after they have achieved the imme diate object of gaining a firm grip on Dvinsk-Vilna-Rovno railway and the railway from Dvinsk to Riga. With control of these important lateral lines the intention of the Germans is to dig in on the eastern front and immediate ly to transfer all but a comparatively small number of troops to anothei front. High German officers in Brussels have expressed the opinion that the Allied line in the West is impregnable. It is more likely, therefore, that the new blow will be directed against eith er Italy or Serbia. R0UMANIA READY TO mm Country's Psrticipation in Wsr Against Germany Is Expected At Any Minute. London, Sept. 18.—A Copenhagen dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company says German newspapers were permitted to publish sensational telegrams that Roumania's partlcipar tion in the war may be expected at any minute. The massing of German and Aus trian troops on the Roumanian frontlet has resulted in the Balkan nation ""K ing preparation for eventualities. Relief Work In Mexico City. Washington, Sept 18.—Further ro lief work by the American Red Croat in Mexico City, where thousands art dependent upon charity for food, haa been made possible by a contribution of $26,000 from the Rockfeller foun dation. Too Hot for School. Pittsburgh, Pa* Sept. 16.—Seventy thousand children wore dismissed froip the public schools because of the in tense heat, and William M. Davidson, superintendent of public Instruction, ordered that no novo »e—tons be hoM until tho reeord hrseklsg heat wars