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FIRST NATIONAL BANK "pSffiBtf"-
Designated Iepolfary and Financial Agent of the United Stmts.
rrMlnt, U. W. Corbett; cannier. K. 0. Wlthltigtnn; anlstant ciuhler, J. W. Kewklrk-secoae'
.Ntitnt canuler. W, C. A Word.
liters f credit limed, avalliale In Europe and the J-.mtern Htatee. Sight exchange ana
lelecrtphlo transfers told on New Yurk, Boston, Utilcago. St. Paul, O.nalia, Ban Fraucln-c, and
the wluclnal points in tho Northwest, Slgtit and time bills drawn In sums to suit on Loudaa,
Farts, Berlin, Franklort.on-tbe-Maln, Hong Kong.
Collection made on larorable terms at all accessible potntt.
LADD TILTON, BANKERS 3E5SE
Established In 18B0.
TRANSACT A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS.
Interest allowed on time deposit!.
Collodions made at nil paints on favorable terms. Letters oforedlt Issued
reliable in Europe and tho Eastern states.
Right lohanue and Telepraphlo Trnnsferi sold on Now York, Washington,
Obloago, 8t. Louis, Donvor, Omaha. San Francisco and various points U. On
foa, Washington, Idaho, Montana and British Colnmbia,
Exchange sold on Loudon, Paris, Berlin, Frankfort and Hong Kong,
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Pendleton. Oregon.
Capital, $70,000.00. Surplus and Undlvided'Pf.fits, $60,000.00.
RESERVE AQENT8-FirVVNntlonal Bank, Chicago, Ilk; First National
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OFFICERS AND DIREO'luRS Levi Ankony, Pres.j W. F. Matlock. Vice
Pres.; O. B. Wade, Cashier: H. C. Guernsoy, Asa't Cashier; J. S. McLeod, W. S.
Byers, W. F. Matlock, H. F. Johnson.
THE PENDLETON SAVINGS BANK
PENDLE.TON, OREGON.
Organized March I, 1880; Capital, SBO.OOO; Surplus, $B3,B00.
Interest allowed on timo deposits. Kxchange bought and sold on all princi
pal points. Special attention given to collections.
W. J. Furnish, President; J. N. Teal, Vice-President; T. J. Morris, Cashier.
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OF INTEREST TO OUR READER!
Cotiiiirnltmiiiltc Ttmletr of tho Import
itnt Happening- nf tlm l'mt Woe
Culli'il 1'roin tht) Tcilcgrnph Columns.
Sanitary couditlons
coming serious.
at Pekin are be
Tho good ronds movoment was form-
ally launched in Chicago.
Mothodists couvoucd in New York
denounced tho Church of Homo. j
Rebel and Amoiican activity in tho
Hold has boon greatly increased.
Kentucky bank is nut $201,000
through tho dislionosty of n clork.
Tho United States snpromo court
sustained tho Touuossco oigarotto law.
Four men woro burned to death iu a
ilru thut doFtroyed it Ponnsrlvuiiiu ho
tel. .
Tho battle-ship Kontuoky will en
forco tho indemnity claim ugainst Tur
key.
In nn engagement north of Manilu 11
Americans and 60 Filipinos wore
klllod.
TJioro is a scarcity of food in Tien
Tsiu, and already thoro is oonsidorabla
sufforiug.
Tho Hay-Pauncofoto treaty will bo
tho stumblinit block in tho way of
canal legislation,
Twontytix Orogon countios that
lmvo not remitted scalp bounty tux aro
requested to do so,
Tho marriago of tho Dnko of Man
ohostor ami Miss Zlmmormuu, of Ciu
ciuuati, is announced.
Past fiscal year was tho most pros
porous period known to American
shipping for eomo timo.
A Chicago finn submits tho best bid
for thu construction uf tho. now post
olllco building Salem, Or.
Fifty-six cases of yellow fevor are
now ttndoi treatment in the city of
Havana, among thorn two Americana.
Fred J. Kisel, of Malheur county,
Oregon, lias boon appointed as u delo
gttto to tho Natiouul Irrigation Con
grosH.
Itov, Jumos Deightou, onco a noted
London preacher, and an lutunaUT
frieud of Spurgeon, died at Ilnugton,
Ind., aged 03 years.
Tho population of Minnesota, as offi
cially announced, is 1,716,754, ugainst
1,801,830 in 1800, an increase of 440,
608 since 1800, or U4.6 per cent.
Dlspathres from Vlutllvostook say
tho Chlneso havo dostrojed U00 vorsts
of tho southern sootion of tho Munobar
iau railroad. All tho stations woro
burned uud much rolling stock was do
stroyed. Tho damago is estimated at
10,000,000 roublos.
Two mou hold up a saloon at Taooma
and socured $12.
Firo at Canton, China, destroyod bo
tneen 200 and 800 housos.
Itobbors blew open the vault of a
bank in Quiucy, 111., and socured
$2,000.,
Firo at an Oshkosh, Wis., lumber
yard destroyed $76,000 worth of flno
grade lumber.
Tho transport Logan has 'arrived at
San Francisco from Muuiln, with 373
sick soldiers.
Two men woro klllod and four seri
ously injured iu a train wreck near
Jackson, Miss.
Tho steamer Nome City has arrived
at Seattlo from Nomo with 260 minera
and $100,000.
Firo dostroyed trio business portion
of the town of Philippl, V. Va., caus
ing u loss of $100,000.
A heavy snow storm is rugirg in
British Columbia, $'.'0,000 damuga bo
ing dono in VuUoouver alone.
Two fishermen woro drowned in the
bay at Seattlo from a small sailboat,
which capsized in a gnst of wind.
The American legation building at
Caracas nas injured beyond repair by
the recent Venezuelan earthquake.
Tho University of Oregon football
team defeated the Uuivernity of Cali
fornia team by u scoru of 2 to 0. '
The United Minoworkors have decid
ed to bring into their organization all
workers in and about thu mines.
The murderous Apuohea of Mexico,
will be bommed up in tho tuountaius
and exterminated by the Mexican
troops.
Anarchists weru not concerned in the
recent usxault on Emperor William. It
was merely the act of a demented Her
lin woman.
Tliroo Americans woro killed in a
tight with 200 bolomeu iu tho province
of Pauay. The enemy lost 100 killed
21 wonnded and 60 prisoners.
One hundred dead bodies wore found
in a swamp just wust of tho city of
Galveston, Texas, on tho island where
they had been deposited by the storm
of September 8.
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Tho downgor empress
desires to ro
ru to Pekin.
Another onott storm is swooping ovor
Itish Columhin.
ovonty-livo livct wcro lost iu tho
jnindo iu tho South.
Negotiations nro under way for a ro
(procity tieaty with Hussin.
A difference of opinion has brought
io Chinoso negotiations to n ptnndstill.
Paul Krugor, oxpro8idout of tho
onth African republic, has arrived at
IitrsoilloB.
' Tho ways and moans comnilttoo of
(tho houso, dncidos to roduoo tho war
tax S'tn.nno.non.
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i. eiinumiiu o iuouu wju vnuitiiu
Hgainsc tno i'liipiuos, roiutorcoinoms
noiug sent to tho soverul divisions.
Tho oflluiul count for Ohio is ns fol
ows: McKinloy 648,018, Iiryan 474,
82; McKiuloy's plurality, 00,080.
Laninson P. Sherman, brother of tho
nto Sontttor John Sherman, of Ohio,
3 led at Dos Moines, Iowa, aged 70.
Tho official count for Nebraska,
hIjonvh that McKiuloy's plurality in tho
.Htato is 7,823. Tho total voto of tho
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nun is ui,uuo. iuummuy ruuuivuu
121,826 and llryivn 114,018.
4Tho population of tho state of Now
lrnrk as officially announced by tho
census bureau, 1b 7,208,012, as against
,7,007,858 in 1800. an increase of
'.270,160, or 21.1 por cent
At Itopuullc, Wash,, Charles Kramer
yas found hintglng by his neck, in n
laushtor houso. Ilo had boon missed
inco November 0. Ills body was
,und by Goorgo Kaglan, who visited
in Hliiiii'htnr linusn. I la was frenornl
dospondont, and having lost $100 on
to olootion, it issttppusod that induced
im to tako his own llfo.
.-Labor troubles that hao boon smol
eriug for nomo timo at tho Piano liar
estor Manufacturing Company's plaut
t Weit Pullman, Illinois, culminated
i a lookout of 000 workmen. Notices
avo been irastod unnouuoiug w suspeu
ion of work for nn indefinite period.
He plant was shut down last July, but
ork was resumed again tho day after
Mi.
Vossloho Zeltung, of Berlin,
out "tho daugors of permitting
to trek into German 'Southwest
i, since they aro unmanageable
'capable of accepting orderly con
i." Giving a word of warning,
"Tho Boors would seek to
n groun 1, thus forming a state
) state. Tho Gorman colonial
fries should remember that it
bo generations before tho Boors
i that thoy onco iiossessed an 'indo
it
Lpeuaint political existence."
The allies at Pekin resolved on
strong measures.
No effort will bo made by congress
to docreaso Southern representation.
Tho opening of tho Milton croamory,
the first in Kastorn Oregon, was cole
bra tod.
Russia deals the Pacific coast a hard
blow by putting a high tarilf on flotir
to Siberia.
Tho house ways and moans commit
too considered tho rednotlon of tho
stump tax.
An ex-rebel chief will start in pur
salt of Aguinaldo, who is said to bo in
Northern Luzon.
Tho population of Florida is 628,62,
as against 801,224 in 1800, an increase
of 187,120, or 85 per cent.
Tho assistant postmaster-general of
the United States pleads for a wido ox
tension of the rural free delivery.-
K. Gates was convicted at South
Bend, Wash., of murder iu tho second
dogreo for killing Captain Ueoson.
Tho situation iu South China Is Im
proved so that tho rebols liao beou
conquered, and the rebellion is noarly
extinct.
J )io population of Rhodo Island was
ounced to bo 428,650, us ugainst
845,600 iu 1800; inoroase of 83,050, or
24 per cont.
Johu II. Ott, the comedian, died at
New York, of a complication of dis
eases. He was taken ill about two
weeks ago. He was 88 years old,
Tbu big cotton mill operatives' strike
in Alamanio county, North Carolina,
has been declared off. The strike has
been in forco about threo months, and
several thousand huuds woro involved.
"Dawson City advices brought by tho
steamer Danube, arrived at Viotnrlu,
are, to the effect tliat ou November 18,
Dawson was reported to have been freo
from new cases of smallpox or 10
days.
The British warship Pheasant, sta
tioned at Victoria, li. C., received rush
orders from tho Admiralty dispatching
her to Panama to protect British inter
ests in tho revolution which has re
curred there.
The annual report of Rear-Adimral
Eadicott, chief of tho bureau of yards
and docks, submits estimates uggregut
ing $12,450,800, of which $11,262,540
it set down for public improvements.
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1NU auillirut eiuiiJ!iBiin tup . iijjui.-
aace of having proper provision made
at an early duto for titoriug at conven
ient points along our coasts tho large
UHiuber of topredo-boats which are be
liigcompletod und put afloat.
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i IIUU IIHIwUU IV l eW will I w 1111
Ex-Rebels Will Join Ameri
cans in Pursuit.
MACABOLOS WILL LEAD PARTY
Da Will Have One Iltuutreit Tlokeit
Nntlvna anil Will Ito Supported by
United Stntct Sold lore.
AInuila, Nov. 28 Goneral Maca-
bolos, tho ox-Flllpluo chtof, is prepared,
to start iu pursuit of Aguinaldo with
100 picked nativos, supported by
Amorloan troops. Other ox-robol Fil
ipinos will bo used in campaigning In
tho country. Their offers havo not
boon formally mado yet, but they aro
ready if tho authorities will accept
their sorvlccs. Aguinaldo, it is sup
posed, is iu Northern Luzon, according
to vtntomonts mado by ox-robol load
ers now iu Manila, conflrmod from oth
er sourcos.
Agllpay, a renegade nntlvo prlost,
not long ago an iusurgont loador in
Northern Luzon, has written to friends
in Manila asking for election nows and
requesting to bo informed whothor a
decision has been reachod couoorning
tho relations botwoon church and atato,
nnd tho disposition of church proper
ties. Tho roplios sent him contuiu tho
iu formation that ohuroh and stato will
bo stipurato, and tho outiro religious
froodom will bonllowod, ,
Triin.port Inillnnii A b round.
Washington, Nov. 28. Quartormas
ter-Gouoral Ludlugtou received a cablo
dispatuh today (torn Colouol Miller,
chief quartermaster at Manila, con
firming tho press roport of tho ground
ing of tho trausport Indiana on tho oast
Hide uf Isla do Polllo, ouo of the
smaller islands of tho Philippine group,
east of Luzon. Colonel Millor's dis
patch follows:
"Indiana agrouud November 7. Sho
is reported as not dumugod. Palmer
(quartermaster), with trausport Penn
sylvania and a lightor ibruught vossel,
loft Manila Suuday in order to roliovo
her. Nothing moro necessary."
When tho Indiana ran unround she
was loadod with supplies and a com
pauy of tho Twenty -seoond infantry,
detailed t) act us it garrison ut Baloi.
TORNADO IN THE SOUTH.
Hush Lois uf Life In Tennessee
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Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 28. A tor
nado bounding through a narrow
stretch of tunitory stretching from a
poiut threo miles north of Lulu, Miss.,
to Lugruugu, Toun., oaused a houvy
loss of lifo uud property this afternoon.
Tho storm bo completely interrupted
telegraphic and telephonic communica
tion thut neither tho origin nor tho end
ing of it can bo determined toulght, uor
can tho extent of tho dlrustor bo
learned. From meager details obtain
able, covorlug only throe points, it ftp
pears thut 10 lives wero lost, und tho
destruction of property wns ulso houvy.
It is boUevod that between tho towns
heard from numerous farm-houses and
interior communities of more or loss
CQUHlderublo opulut!ou wore struck.
Accompanying tho tornado wus a ruin
storm of torrlllo proportions.
Tho toruudo struck tho town of La
grunge, 411 miles east of Memphis, on
tho Southern railway, in Fayetto conn
ty, this afternoon. Only one church
is left standing in thu, town, Tho
streets are littered with tho debris of
dostroyed buildings, inorchaudiso, lelo
graph uud tolopbono wl'es und poles.
Soverul persons nro dead.
Six porsous weio injured more or loss
seriously, uud 10 buiuus places weio
totally dostroyed. Tho Mitliodist,
Baptist und Presbyterian churches
wero domollshud. Thu roHidouco por
tlou of tho town ulso sufforod heavy
loss, uevorul buildings being completely
demolished and it largo number dam
aged.
A perfect delugo of ruin was falling
when the oycloue came, but its ud
vnuco wns foretold by u roaring, rush
ing sound, followed by quick heavy re
ports which gave thoiuhubltuutH warn
ing, und thoy rushed out from tho fall
ing buildings.
STORM IN CHICAGO.
Italu Kelt In IImIukIiik Quantities '"
Tliiimlvr mul Liulitnliiic riuntirul,
Chicago, Nov. 28. Glaring flushes
of lightning and loud peals uf thunder,
sights uud sounds generally peculiar to
midsummer in Chicago, accompanied
thu fctorm which hurst upon tho oity
shortly beforo miduli;ht Inst night.
Itiiiu foil iu deluging quantities, uud
thu elements ditplu)ett ull tho charact
eristics of u Hummer thunderstorm.
Telephone and telegraph wires wero af
fect oil by tho electricity iu tho utmos
phorH. Thu streets of tho oity run
liku rivers. There wub enough wind
on thu lako to endanger thu safety of
light trait.
Thro storm Is probablr the forerun,
ner of a cold wave thut hits forced tho
mercury down to 12 degrees below
zero iu ' .Montana, uud which is sched
uled to urrho iu Chicago -today,
John Wunamakur has been ro-elected
president of thu IVnusylvuuiu State
b'uubuth School Association, r
DeTitntatlnn Wrought liy Tornado In
the Honlh.
Memphis, Nov. 24. Advices rocoivod
tonight from tho storm-swept sootions
of Mississippi, Arknusus and Tonnossoo
indloato that tho Iobb of lifo nnd dam
ngo to proporty is far greater than nfc
first roportod. Tho placos nffootod nro
retnoto and isolated, und at tho bost
thoy aro not woll equipped with moans
of communication, nnd thu storm
which lust evening carried dovnstntlou
ncrosB tho country at tho samo timo
Bwopt nwny tho wires, bo that tolo
pbono nnd .olograph wires nllko woro
put out of sorvico. Dependence has
necessarily boon placed in railroad mon
nnd truvolors coming from nffootod,
parts. It is ostimutod that tno number
of dead will exceed 75.
THE STORM IN TENNtSSEE.
Morn Than BO people Were Killed and
, 100 Injured.
Nnshvillo, Tenn., Nov. 24. Tonnes
sco wns swopt last night by tho most
destructive storm ever known in tho
stnto. Moro than 60 pooplo wero'
killod.and 100 moro injured, whllo tho
dnmngo to houses, timber and other
property will roach largo flguros.
Tho storm entered tho stato from
Northern MisBisslppi and swopt noross
in a northeasterly direction. Great
damago is roportod from tho counties
bordering on Mississippi and further
on. Columbia, in Maury county, is
tho heaviest sufferer. Lnvorguoi Nol
nnsvillo nnd Gallatin also folt tho
vvind'R fury, tho storm finally losing its
forco against tho Cumberland moun
tain rango. Columbia's cnsunlties
number 25 dead and 60 injured.
Tho path of tho storm was about 850
yards wido, and wns through tho north
westoru subnrbn of tho town. In ito
path overylhiug is complotoly wreckod.
Not oven tho iron nnd stouo funco on
tho tho nrsonal grounds is Htnndlng.
Tho number of housos destroyod in
tho NohtUBvillo neighborhood is 10.
At Lnvcrgno, 10 miles south of horo,
on thu Nashville, Chattanooga & St.
Louis road, tho voloeity of tho wind
was marvelous, nnd from host reports
lasted only about 30 seconds. In this
Bhort timo ubout 80 dwellings woro
turiiod into kiudllng wood. The wind
mado a swath about 200 yards wido
through the middle of the town. The
Lavorguo high school and tho station,
tho two largest buildings, were laid
flat. The railroad lost four section
housos also,
Tho rise in the Comherlaad river at
Nashville is the most MBad known in
35 years, the water having olimbed 20
lee or (be
gauge since yuste:
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morning.
In Memphis there is a heavy loss as --
a result of tho storm. Culverts were
washod out und small bridges were
swopt away. Lumber firms on Wolf
river suffered sovorely from tho do 1
tmction of logs, und it is estimated to
night that their Iobsob will foot up be
tyveon $800,000 nnd $500,000.
IN MISSISSIPPI.
A Wide KiUint of Territory Swept by
thu Toriimlo.
Memphis, Nov. 34. In Mssissippi
tho greatest loss of life nnd dnmngo to
proporty ricontred' Hour Tnnicn, Lula
und Hernando. A report by enrrior
from u point 13 miles from Tunica says
that thu tornado's devastation was so
great that it will take weeks to calcu
late and repair it. Fivo nogroos lost
their lives ou tho llamllu place. In
Tunica tho church and a number of
buildings woro totully demolished.
More than 60 negroes aro mlsslug, and
it is feared that several of thorn perish
ed. Corn is reported badly damaged.
At Ilornundo u whlto man wub killed
uud a negro fatally injured by flying
debris. Numerous sawmills, several
rusideuo h nnd hundreds of negro cub
ins woro blown uwuy. At Loyo Sta
tion, J, H. Donoy, a whlto man, wuh
crushed by living timber, and is ex
pouted to dio.
At Trucoy tho roisdeuco of J. B.
Higgins wus totully demolished and
sovoral other buildings woro wreoked.
Ten cabins wero destroyed on a planta
tion and three negroes killed.
At Lit Grungo two persons wero
killed ourtight und a sooro or more
soiiously injured. About 100 houses,
mainly thoso of poor people, wero de
stroyed. Tho damage to unpicked cotton can
not bo estimutod, but it is undoubtedly
considerable. Traffic on tho Memphis
brunch of thu Louisvlllo & Niishvillo
railroad bus been deluyod since lost
night, owing to high wator ut places
between Milan and tho Tonnossoo rivor.
All truius havo been deluyrd.
TEN LIVES LOST THERE.
Fearful Havoc W Wrought In a Mis
elailppl Town,
Memphis, Nov. 24. A special to the
Commorclul-Appeal from Arkabutln,
Tute county, Miss., says:
Yesterday afternoon a tornado de
scended upon this littlo towu, and us
a result of its fearful intensity 10 )er
sons wero killed outright una 20 wero
injured,
Tho storm overwhelmed tho town
about 6 o'clock in tho aftornooii, and
in u few minutes every building wus
demolished. Muny of the victims woro
pinned under tho wreokago nnd wero
oxtricutod with much difficulty. Tho
tornado passed to tho 'uorthoast uud
caused much damugo through tho conn
try districts.
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