The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-08-27
r N. segar. of Fuye.e. ha, receive,

figure. One cent net is considered good.
OF course these struck an almost barren
market and the numerous carloads now
being shipped cannot be expected to do
nearly as we'll, but fairly profitable re-
turns seem almost certain.
Corvallis has adjourned. Her people
are making money. Men, women and
children, have gone in families and neigh
borhoods into the fields, hop yards and
orchards, where they will gather shining
shekels for use during the winter. They
will all come back, the seaside resorters
will return, the college jammed with
young men and women, everybody will
have money and we will all be happy.
| Assessor Alexander is again confronted
with the bank stock problem. President
Woodcock, of the First national hank,
insists upon having his AIS shares of
stock assessed at ne more than S4I per
share, while the assessor maintains his
right to fix the valuation. which he has
placed at SIS. The county board of
equalization whose meeting commences
September 27, will have its tinc largely
occupied viii II the matter.
Nobody need complain OF poverty in
rampant and even occasional hobos
hardly escape the demands of labor EN-
ploycrs. The grain harvest offers oppor-
tunities at SI.25 per day. Fruit pickers
get from 81 to SI.5o per day; packers a
little less. Hop pickers earn from 80 to
40 cents box. Fruit aud hop picking
furnish opportunities for pleasant and
renunerative outing.
The Agricultural College opens Sep
tember 40. Over 400 inquiries, for the
most part from prospective new students,
concerning board at the halls, have been
received. This would indicate that the
attendance this year will be cksse to 600.
Many of the coming students wish to
partly maintain themselves while at
school, and citizens who can give them
work, whether to be paid i'll board or
monsy, will confer favor upon the en-
ployment committee, consisting of Pres
ident Catch and Profs. Horner and
Coote, in SO informing one of the men,
bers.
Dick Kiger had an accident with his
team Wednesday evening that barely es
capped being serious. He was driving
from his place and his mother with her
baby was in the buggy with him. COM
ing into town they met wood saw and
the horses acting skittishly, Mrs. Kiger
and child alighted. Dick drove past
without much trouble, but when fairly
by the engine blew off steam, frightening
the team so that they turned sharply
around, throwing Dick out and breaking
the buggy. He was considerably bruised
up, but retained his hold on the lines
and the horses did not get away. His
injuries did not prove serious.
The practical work of Prof. Coo,e, of
the chair of horticulture at the Oregon
Agricultural College, bears fruit in many
ways, or at least flowers all over eur
state. One Of the students at the college
last year, was Ray rarviR.- This spring.
lie had built at his fathers suburban
home, near this city, small green house
aud with Mrs Parvin's help has grown
from the seed very choice collection of
house plants, such as are usually grown
and sold in the larger green houses of
cities. Many are varieties are already in
bloom, aud by cross fertilization new spe-
cies are being produced. 1t will please
Salemites who want to patronize home in-
dustry to visit the Parvin green house
and see what young man can learn at
the State Agricultural College.
VIM. Gird, the philosopher of Lon g
Tom, was in the Office one day this week.
The philosopher is puzzled The mys-
terry which he commented upon, mot
necessarily for publication, but as guar
antee of good faith," is this: There is a
person living in his neighborheed who
tolls not, neither does he spin, and yet
he seems to excellently maintain his be-
ing. He lives i'll slough, and is known
as ''Slough Taylor" He has Jumped"
some As acres of Bruce's slo"gh land, but
all season has not worked rs days. ''The
Honorable Mister Slough Taylor" re-
marked the philosopher, 'frogs in the
winter and deer tracks in the summer" "
Any philosopher will probably under
stand the pertinency of that expression.
The origin of animal life," continued
philosopher Grid, is no more nlyster-
ious than its preservation in such cases
as that of my atore mentioned neighber.
I can't comprehend it." None of the
exchanges in the Office shed any light on
the matter, and the philosopher retired
with an distracted air and one of our
lead pencils-also distracted.
! Judge o. N. Denny, of Lafayette, wa.
in Corvallis this week on visit to the
Oregon Agricultural College. His prin'
cipal object was to welcome President
Catch and family back to Oregon. Judge
Denny is an old pupil of the president
having attended the Willamette univer
sity in the early Cos, and is delighted
that the professor is again in charge o
an important Oregon institution. Boil
gentlemen greatly enjoyed the meeting
Judge Denny says that the selection OF
Mr.. Catch as president has made strong
friends for the institution all over the
state. "He is Que of the most scholarly
and capable mel that could have been
selected for the place." said Mr.. Denny.
. land while he is at the head of the insti
tuition it will in no way be tainted witt
: politics" Judge Denny OWNS large
ranch in Yamhill county and this yea
has a crop of 1000 bushels of wheat be