The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-01-30

self defense Tommy Smith is certainly
success. For the past few weeks he ha
been giving lessons in boxing to mum
ber of young men, and Saturday nigh
the class gave an exhibition of thei
skill in the old engine house. Thoss
who attended the affair say that severa
of ''Tommy's" pupils have attained {:
degree of proficiency that is indeed re
markable.
Prof U. P. Hedrich of the Oregon ex
pertinent station, will shortly issue bull
letin upon ''Prunes, Apples and Pears il
Oregon" The foundation of the bulletir
is the data furnished by the Horticultural
survey of the state recently made under
the direction of that department of the
college. 1t will be practical paper and
useful TO nuitgrowers. These bulletins
can be procured free of charge by appli
cation to members of the station council
Carey Martin is not nephew of Sec
| retary K nclid's, Notwithstanding tt. q
| information was telegraphed to the Ore
gonian by its correspondent at Salem and
has been copied by the state press. Mr..
Martin is no way related to MIR. Kincaid
He is young man who started in poor
and worked his way through the Univer-
sity of Oregon. He is holding his pres
ent position on his merits alone, and the
malicious attack made by the Oregonian's s
correspondent, from purely personal mo-
tives, is unjust, and basely 1nisrepresents
the statements which he made.-Eugene
Guard.
Since the first of the month, Messrs
Nolan & Callahan have been endeavor-
ing to locate the holder of ticket No.
CAB, who was entitled to the elegant
leather chair that was given away by tie
firm several weeks ago. However, after
four weeks of diiligent inquiry, the lucky
individual put in an appearance Monday
and took the prize. His name is W.
Seemit and his postoffice address is Phil
on1ath. He does not read the newspa
p>rs, and learned of his good luck while
conversing with some of his more intel
ligent associates at dance.
Prof Hedrich has drawn up plans for
the improvement of the college campus.
Instead of a straight walk through the
middle of the grounds, his idea is to have
two walks diverging from the entrance
gate around either side of the grounds
and meeting again at the college. The
southwestern part of the campus will be
devoted to a race track, grid iron field,
etc, while all the space between the
walks will be artistically laid out as
plrk. The college possesses ideal cam
pus grounds, and under the able direction
Of Prof. Hedrich students will find in
them the Lessons always taught by the
beautiful in nature.
Professors French, Shaw and Cord1ey |
are in Eastern Oregon this week holding
farmers institutes under the auspices of
the Agricultural College. Monday and
Tuesday they were at Union and yester-
day and today at Milton. At each place
Professors French and Shaw were an
nounced to lecture upon sThe Agricul- |
tura1 College and Its Work." illustrated
by stereoptican views. Prof French |
also appeared on the program for talk
OH Wheat as Stock Food" Prof |
Shaw was scheduled to lecture upon |
"Alkali Soils; Their Cause and Treat |
,,,~,,t ,p1,;Ia Drof Cor1Ia,, ,,ac o,,ouuc |
ed to discuss 1.-The Use of Spray COM
pounds" The professors are expected !
home tomorrow,
At special meeting of the council
held Monday evening, the levy for the
city was placed at the same figure as that
of last year-seven mills, two mills being |
for street purposes and five mills for gem !
eral municipal purposes. An unsuccess- !
full attempt was made to reduce the levy
to six mills, by cutting off one mill from
the levy for general purposes. There is
a considerable amount of the city's tax
delinquent and the opinion seemed to
prevail that it was not best to run the
risk of more delinquencies and consequent
inefhciency of the levy. With the coun-
ty, state and school levy 49, 3 mills, the
special school levy of 2 mills i'll district
No. and mills in the city, the total rate
on property within the municipal limits
will be 27.s mills; an increase Of 2.S
mills over the levy for last year.
Dr. Thompson, at the Presbyterian
church, Sunday morning, spoke vigor-
ously against narrow mindedness in
church life "Christ, - he said, sis larger
than creeds'' He pictured the sinful
ness of those who raised up their own
gods in the form of creeds "Men,' he
remarked, care willing to fight and die,
If need be, for seventeen kinds of Meth
odism and twelve kinds of Presbyterian
ism" Many people otherwise liberal in
their ideas, become dognatic and narrow
minded i'll their christianity, and want to
knock somebody down with their belief.
The hour demands clean cut, Intellectual
statements, not dangerous denunciations
of other forms of worship. No church
has absorbed all the good in Christ
John, Paul and Peter each saw different
sides of Christs character, and the epis-
ties of each represeiit different phases of
His life. The church Is frauel..,. with
mortality and has NOT attained full excel.