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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-08-18
Thousands of Dead
Animals and Vast
Property Destruction

Dallas, Tex, Aug 18.-Perhaps hundreds of
lives lost and millions of dollars worth property
was destroyed by the West Indian hurricane that
swept the Texas coast yesterday and the day before
according to information received here from the
stricken districts which have been cut off from wire
communication with the outside world
By noon the total dead were reported as nearly
100 with no definite news out of Galveston, itself,
which city is believed to have been the hardest hit
newspaper man who got within sight of Calves
ton said the evidence of destruction that met his eyes
showed the damage to exceed that of the great 1900
storm.
At Texas City from II to Is soldiers and from 80
to 40 civilians were killed.
refugee who escaped from Ken1ah, coast
town, said that only house was left standing at
that place.
Houston is reported to have suffered damage
variousy estimated from ST. 100000 to $5000000 but
only two lives were lost there.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-08-18
Interesting Letter
Gives Information
From British Front

apologize for not answering sooner.
You can understand, perhaps, in this
barrack life one can rarely get quiet
opportunity and / hardly ever can
settle down these days to letter writ
ing. Being on duty for while as
company orderly corporal I have the
use of the sergeant majors room and
for the first time find myself alone in
a quiet spot and I am trying now to
make up arrears.
$50 many things have happened
since Joined, in the early stages of
the war, that settled down here for a
time in the surroundings of barrack
life, can sometimes hardly realize
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-08-18

feeling that the big bankers Of the
street had been called on by England
to suggest acceptable terms OF such a
loan, and that negotiations were in
progress over the cables to set the
foreign exchange situation right
It was thought significant that the
talk today was OF loan whose longest
issue should expire in ten years.
Heretofore. two years had been men
toned as the maximum length of the
loan In some circles, publication of
the proposal was regarded as feeler
for financial opinion as to the desir-
ability OF financing a loan for ten
r1n+tnrad ~ Pee u,oht
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-08-18
FREE SOUVENIRS FOR LADIES.

Graingowers
I n
Tomorrow tits probable will be another pitchers battle
pitchers Who will hooked
again. Come out and s4ss
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-08-18
British Advance on
Dardaneles Reported
Italians Advance
ZEPPELIN RAID REACHED LONDON.

London, Aug. 18-zeppelins raided the outskirts
of London last night Ten persons killed by the
air raid One Zeppelin is believed to have been hit
Thirty-six persons were injured The raid was over
the eastern counties of England.
The statement says ''air patrols were active but
owing difficult atmospheric conditions the Zeppelins
we're able to escape
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-08-18
Mexican MESSAGES,

New York, Aug. 1S.-The Mexican
Cable company announced today that
because of the damage to the tele-
graph lines in Texas by the storm, all
messages for Mexican points will be
accepted for transmission via Colon
until further notice.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-08-18
Germans Have Taken N,vno--
May Advance on Petrograd
HAITIEN REBELS
Want TO fight
U. 5. MARINES

Cape Haitien. Haiti, Aug. 1s.--An-
other detachment OF American marines
has been landed from the warships Of
this port The rebels have refused to
disarn, and some sections. expressed a
desire to fight the American forces.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-08-18
THOUSANDS OF DEAD ANIMALS.

Houston, Aug. l8.-Newspaper men who got
within eyesght of Galveston declared the conditions
along the prairie similar to those that obtained In
the 1900 storm. eve saw thousands of dead animals
along the way" one correspondent said. He also
stated that he could see Fort Crockett Athere
ed unchanged. He could recognize some of the tall
buildings IN Galveston with which he was familiar
but most impressed with the gravity of the situa
on by the fact that all the grain elevators apparently
had been swept away by the storm
1aIs; TsT Aas 1aseores said to have perishsd
po sTs from N1t & 'f tS' S . . Snd'eG s
c % and ] killed s & 4s sS. G S s%s :IsS S e.po ..
@ s't: % are and s from from sweat s. Each eight deaths from
Texas % '"S % ;:f 5 T S ' s. %rS Sess :'2 1ss "sss at
the 81 fS c SR % S which sS i'sia a
Ss"s vii s. the
which s'i T. SSS .i'sTS tee t ] s
no mention is made of the loss of life. -.
EIGHT BODIES WASHED UP
S: s::"sS, E; z:::s :s:sT H f
: sS: %s"i. % % s City 1900
POINT ISABEL SAFE
e9'S S .s 5 Hss s. .::sns ::s which s specie: %
from Corpus to I so@n @ d9Ts snd i 4" @ s:s az:
COTTON CROP is RUINED .s
a. IT,. @ beer 1 HSs the sss ] ss viii 4.. BY ut" The .g: &
the So: bss b.s" G Sn m Ss st"a % Ts % 1
beaten into the BY accompanies
= ] #; e:
OF the entire cotton Of
SUFFERING IN GALVESTON.
.6S TsE % & !P% . s
and street There Is NO
drinking
s refers :sssI % ss 1as "a =. Fort so % 5
a. rsn Ss oCSos n
killed. Not
Washington, 1s-Under sedav MAJ
General Funston, ed
tions at Galveston the department
"Buford radio Nc
Celan mile
stations all blown
the
Of
No
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-08-18
LONG BITTER STRUGGLE FOR BRIDGE HEAD.

Funes Belgium via Paris Aug isThe famous bridge head
yesterday after desperate assault by the Germans
had repulsed.
bridge fragment of the right bank of the User
the adjoining
the
Every evening
ing Belgians remained the
them The
attack it had
onuchth the On.
batteries hreeinhers behind them
occupying evacuated trenches under the
waited the
the early morning The Germans were permitted
the machine which then opened re by the
ed the bridge head the Belgian had the
that those who got into the trenches were obliged to
tbann
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-08-18

The taking Kovno, strong
officially Berlin, which the armies OF
Hndenbura pounding heavily the
which Preoipitated renewed discussion OF
the Teutonc advance Pstrosrad.
military whether the Russians
hands will be able to hold the BrestLovsk
the direction of which Grand Duke
falling back Warsaw taen
advance Petrosrad looms a possibility
From the pardaneIes Hamilton ad
OF yards British left flank Suva the
Italian troops, squads Joined by
spz Hinter 1o5oo feet hish
claimed in the Rien in Monte Nero
according resulted in the
Of OF strong entertainments on the santa Maria and
agency Athens through London state that
Venizelcs has notified King Constantine OF MS
readiness to form Grecian cabinet
Berlin is-The following made here
THe fortress the forts and
determined has beer in
cernan hands night taken
captured by atorn in spite OF the most tenacious
TWO NORWEGIAN STEAMERS SUNK
London Aug 1sThe Norwegian steamers and Min>
sraI have been sunk by German subnarns
TO DECLARE COTTON coNTRARAND.
Of war s speeted
both Britain and France
DOWNFALL OF WILMA PREDICTED,
Petroaad London, Aug ts6erman persist
emily bonhardins Wilma fifty miles of koVno
Wilma by the Germans Is oeseen
operations preliminary its evacuation
+
~ MORE VESSELS WENT DOWN.
Lsndon Aug Ronny and the Spanish
Sonny eight
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-08-18
MORE VESSELS WENT Down.

Lsndon Aug British 5onny and the Spanish
sunk Bonny eight
sdro picked up trawer sunk Her
Mavnd
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Continued on Page Ten.
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Continued on Page Eight.
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W nATa.E.s. a.

Fair tonight, probably becoming un
settled Thursday; not much change II
temperature.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-08-18
EIGHT BODIES WASHED UP.
POINT ISABEL SAFE.

San Antonio, Tex, Aug. 18-Poin Isabel which was ye
reported to have been flooded safe according
dispatch received here The storm said
on the coast from Corpus Christi to Brownsville,
reported lost
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-08-18
DOWNFALL OF WILMA PREDICTED.

London Aug. fisherman aeropanes persist
Iy bobardns the city Of Wins about fifty miles east of kovno
of of Wilma by the Germans foreseeF
etrosrad operations preliminary to its evacuation in
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-02-23

opinions by withdrawing fraction OF
the papers revenue, but underlying
that aim is probably desire, con-
scious or unconscious, to inspire fear
of other losses of the same kind and
so to coerce the paper by an appeal 20
its material interests into a reversal OF
it's policy and attitude on the ques-
ton at issue.
The New York Times, which has been
having sorry time of it because 1t has
been taking q pronounced position
against the Germans, explains that to
reverse the papers position for such a
reason would be dishonest as well as
cowardly, but he who proclaims the
stopping of his subscription doesn I
think of that And how hard to explain
is it that anybody should be without
the eagerness, to hear what can be said
against his own views or conclusions,
says the Times. Either his confidence
in his own Judgment is weak or he pre-
fers to hold to notions already accepted
regardless of whether they are right or
wrong.
The Times says that the reader who
will not take paper with all the ut
terances of which he can not agree
does not want a newspaper at all, or
to know what can be known about the
subjects he considers important or in
teresting-he wants partisan organ
that Wilt keep him in comfortable tWl-
light
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-02-23
The SCARLET PLAGUE.

The opening chapters of new
serial story appear in the Times-Re-
publican TO-DAY The story is by JACK
London and is one Of the most thrill
ing Of tales of adventure from the pen
of that versatile author The scarlet
plague strips from man the glamour
of his civilized state and carries him
back to the days of semi barbarisnl.
The devastating sweep Of an epidemic
across the American continent takes
with it millions of people and every
vestige OF civilization. only hand
full Of people remain between the At
lantic and Pacific, and London relates
in graphic detail their struggles and
problems in founding new race and
rebuilding the twentieth century civil
ization. The story is well worth read
ing.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-02-23
BORROWING FROM Depesl1oRs.

Since discussing some remarks de-
livered by George W Hanna, Of Luz
verne, wherein Mr.. Hanna rlade It
clear that there was no such thing as
the Bank Of Luverne but that ne was
the bank and the word bank was
merely used for "convenience, the
Times Republican has been favored
with several Of the statements volun-
trai!y published by the Bank of Luz
verne They are interesting in de-
netting character as well as assets.
Hanna is a type OF the tall OAK
amid a forest of self made pioneers.
He can not understand anything bat
the extreme creed Of the ind.vldualistic
theory. Ii is every maa for himself
and let the best man @in with Hanna
That IS the way he won. His has been
the life of pioneer, the man who met
q wilderness in the open and con-
quered it. when state and national
banks publish their statements as re-
quired by law George w. Hanna usual
- !D.AOHS WIZ HAS y" II stdLElIEIIl dc
companied by remarks pom current
events and politics which denote the
positive assertiveness Of self made
and rich old standpatter, ir fact he
calls himself a standpatter and in his
statement for March. 1905, he wishes
First that Cumminsism be driven
from the land. Second that this may
be season of sunshine, good corn and
high priced hogs, and third that old
Joe Cannon may be the next president
of the United States"
incidentally it is reiterated in each
and every statement that the Bank Of
Luverne" owns $3.50 acres of Iowa
land, most of which is clear. The state
ment for Dec. % showed that George
w. Hanna is rich enough in land to be
both proud and cocksure and the de-
| positors are not worrying. The Bank
of Luverne," which Is Hanna, owed
| them 1882, PIG and the bank which is
| Hanna, had s37,255.54 of this on hand
| in cash, s7T,S64.31 was Cue it from
| those who had borrowed, making s115,
1885 of cash and receivables on hand
and the rest of the depositors' money
a little more than half had been in
vested in Iowa land, cattle and hogs
save $4,000 in an orange ranch IL
Mexico but the value OF this real es.
tate as given By Mr.. Hanna is SILL
I2s4.1O in excess Of what he owes his
ldepositors so the margin in land t.
secure his depositors seems to b.
ample.
| However, the Strength Of Mr.
IHanna's bank, which is given here IL
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-02-23
WHY IOWA FARMERS ARE PROS
Porous.
[Sioux City Tribune.l

SIOUX Oll! 1Tlpunel
| The railroad campaign in Iowa for
higher passenger and freight rates on
intrastate business is beginning to
show results in petitions that are
reaching the legislature signed by bus
mess men and farmers, asking that the
railroads be granted the right to ad-
vance rates.
These petitions are ali alike They
were written by railroad talent ana
printed with railroad money. They are
being distributed thru various railroad
agencies and signatures are being oo-
tanned by railroad emissaries. There
is nothing about them that gives any
evidence of any initiative on the part
OF the people. They are of the same
kind as petitions TO have the nation
pave a perfectly good river with as
phalt or the county 70 build brldge
over a dry creek, or the city to make q
cash donation to the Home for INDECENT
Tango Dancers, or The government 10
pardon a horse thief. Signers are Cd
tanned TO any sort of petition II the
proper blib-tongued person circulates
the petition.
Far down in these petitions is this
paragraph. as one of the 'whereases
why Iowa should give the railroads
permission to advance freight rates:
Whereas, the marked enhancement
of Iowa land values would have been
impossible without the railroads. which
are essential 10 farming and CONNER
cial interests of every community.
Iowa last year was the banner crop
state Of the United states. The value
OF its agricultural products was greater
than the value of the farm products of
any other state in the union. Why?
Because there was greater demand
for them. because worldw wide condi-
tons conspired to enhance the value
of farm products. and have been con-
spring every year for years to adj
vance the value OF farm products? An,
no
This wealth Of the Iowa farmer is
due to the railroads. The value OF his
products (upon which the value of his
land is based and by which 1t is de-
termined) is dependent upon the rail-
.roaTs, The higher freight and passen-
ger. rates he pays, the more his crops
viii he worth In the markets OF the
world and the greater the enhancement
of land values,
This is "A startling reversal OF the
laws Of political economy as they have
been taught for several generations,
but inasmuch as the stereotyped peti-
tons being circulated by railroads
make this statement and advices from
Des Moines say these petitions are be-
ing signed by farmers. there can be
no doubt that Iowa railroads and not
world wide markets fix the price OF
Iowa farm products.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-02-23
An Accommodations N.iahbor.

A few days ago we saw Oh McMahOn
borrowing a Ratchet or other imple-
ment to drive or draw nails at Sher-
mans hardware store, says the Toron-
to (Kan.) Republican. And that
brought to mind borrowing" story OF
Uncle Oh:
A great number Of years ago Her
bert Lockard owned one Of the few
two section harrows hereabout. Uucle
Oh was farming some, and went up
to borrow it. Herbert always would
loan anything he had, but he wanted
it brought home. So he waited q
reasonable time for the harrow TO be
brought back, and finally, having ia
use it, went after It. AS he drove
along he began to get rolled over the
! thought Of going after his own bor-
rowed harrow, and by the time he got
! it loaded into his wagon was downright
mad. Said he, col ] thought you was
neighbor enough to bring home what
you borrowed"
Bring 1t home,'' shouted OF. with
great show Of Indignation; bring II
/ home! Why. heavens to Betsy, man
| went after it! How much do you ex'
pect of a neighbor, anyhow
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-02-23
lMuscatine, Journal.l

The Davenport Times calls upon
Governor Clarke to veto the law re-
pealing the mulct petition because the
law is not a party measure, was not
forecasted or indicated by the republic
can rarty's platform and Is not dfinite-
ly known to represent republican senti-
ment in the state.
Considering these facts the Times
declares the governor would be justified
in vetoing the law inasmuch as within
few years the people of Iowa are to
definitely determine their position on
the liquor issue by a popular vote.
While we do not believe that tho
arguments the Times advances are
likely to bear weight with the governor.
and while we question whether the
governor has the moral right to set his
views up against the apparently over
whelming sentiment of the legislature.
there is no doubt but that the Times
is correct when it declares that the re-
peal is by no means a party measure.
In fact it had an origin sufficiently
democratic to justify the governor s
veto of it on purely partisan and polit-
ical grounds.
The repeal bill was forced thru the
senate by Senator Clarkson. a demo-
crat, against the known sentiments of
some of the republican drys who fear
the possibility of reaction before the
resubmission of the prohibitory consti-
tutional amendment, as result OF two
years operation of statuatory prohibi-
ton. Again it was a democrat, Senator
Voorhees,, whose switch from the wet
to the dry side on this bill that made
the passage of the measure in the sem
ate possible. Also it wwas democrat,
Representative Crozier, who forced
the issue in the house. Democrats
supported the measure In both the
upper and lower houses and without
them it could mot have passed the
senate
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-02-23
4 WOMAN SUFFRAGE INCIDENT.

Amid the seas Of slush and along
of penetrating wet and cold one figure
stood out this morning like liberty en-
Tightening the world The walks along
the long street were unhroken by
youth or man cleaning a passage way;
but before one house a bachelor maid
piled snow shovel and the way was
clear that all the world might walk
therein dryshod 1t was a noble sight
TO see, tho carrying somewhat of
humiliation to the male observer who
had left his walks unshoveled.
The woman who rises carly to shovel
off her walks is a mighty good citizen
to have around town. She seems to
have better attained right 70 vote
han the lazy or careless man who
falls of his community duy-for
shoveling walks is as much a commun
ity duty as voting for mayor and kick
ing over taxation. 1t is safe to assume
that the same pubuc spirit and sense
OF community welfare hat has her
walks shoveled off before airy of her
superior brethren have spit on their
hands would be exercised at the voting
booth or in city offices TOO often held
by the ignorant, lazy and incompetent.
Such women should have husbands.
They are evidently entirely able 10
support man better than most men
seem able to support themselves. When
We get ready TO levy a tax on bachelors
let us rot pass by the bachelor woman.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-02-23
[Sioux City Tribune.1

II the Iowa mulct repeal becomes a
completed incident, there will be
some lively skirmishing In the next
campaign for positions OF advantage
on the liquor question. One exciting
| thing about such a situation is the ever
present possibility of making a bad
guess. This was well illustrated when
the republican party threw it's protect
ing arms around the original prohibi-
tory enactment, assuming from the
large popular majority given to the
measure that utilization with 1t would
prove winner. 1t is matter Of Iowa
political history that the republicans
later found 1t expedient to get away
from that issue.
In the present instance the fight
against the mulct law came on rather
spontaneously. without organized party
prompting and the repeal bill received
support from both republicans and
democrats. For that reason either
party will be in position to stake a
claim on the issue If 1t be viewed as
worth working.
1t is an incident of the situation that
the senate and house mulct repeal bills
were introduced by democrats-Ciark-
son in the senate and Crozier In the
house. 1t is also true that the bitterest
opponents Of ,he mulct repeal In both
house and senate were democratic
members from the counties along the
Mississippi river.
From past experiences 1t seems i'm
probable that the policital parties and
candidates can avoid complications on
the liquor question. even with the state
nominally dry and it will be some
what surprising II this issue does not
overshadow all others for a few years
There is bound to be period OF re-
action. following the closing OF the sa
looms all over the state. Opponents Of
saloons realize this. and that is the
principal reason a number Of dry"
leaders in Iowa did not want any
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-02-23
Topics of the Times

\ Rrooklyn man was sentenced to
jau recently for stealing the contents
Of church poor box. And still some
contend that capital punishment should
be abolished.
out in bleeding Kansas they are still
doing things" There has been intro
duoed in the legislature a measure
which. II it passes, women will not be
permitted 10 powder their noses nor
use perfume or rouge. But Kansas is
not alone in its freaks. In Colorado
Senator William Adams. democratic
leader. has introduced bill providing
that chickens shall 20 10 roost between
the hours of 6 and ! p. m, and provid-
ing penalties tor the violation Of the
curfew while another measure IN the
election as state senators and cotton
tails as representatives. A third pro-
vides that bulls running at large in the
public highway must wear high-power
headlights.
The European war has one good fea-
ture after all It gives TO the modern
prophets color for the fulfilment of the
biblical prophecy, to the effect that the
end Of the world Is approaching. Even
Cardinal Gibbons admits that it looks
suspicious, for the bible declares that
Nation shall rise against nation, and
there shall be sorrow turnout the world,
which will be a sign that the end is
near"
Frank James is being given some
maudlin attention that might better
have been suppressed. The JAMES
were bunch of bold thieves and muir
derers and the country is well rid OF
them whether they died in bed or with
| their boots on.
| Sympathy with the Register ant
! League in its calamity is tempered by
the assurance that the Des Moines pa
! per will be splendidly housed in a new
| fireproof building of It's own as ont
of the results of disaster. 1t will be {
pleasant sight to see Harvey en-
! throned perhaps on tripod" Of gil
and ebony in a spacious office ant
Leon surrounded by sufficient room t.