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AMERICANS IN GLAND.
Some Are Patriotic, While Others r,
pudtnfe Th-ir Country.

Some Are Patriotic, While Others Re-
pHdinte Ih~ir Country.
LONDON. Eng, May 25.-The first in
novation made by Osborne, the new
United States Consul-General. is to have
The American flag hoisted daily at the
co nsulate.
Subscriptions to the fund for the en-.
dowment in perpetuity of bed in each OF
the FIVE leading London hospitals, which
was started by Americans residing in
England as a memorial TO the Queen s
jubilee, are coming in slowly and without
much ecIat. The largest subscription is
that OF Mrs. John ". Mackay, $500. Astor
subscribed 500. Some who had been
asked to put their names on the lists de-
clined, notably the Duchess of Mari
borough tnee Vanderbil0. who pleads as a
reas on that she is no longer an American.
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make up the full amount. Thus Crispi
paid the bank completely.


paid the bank completely.
when the newspa pers began the agita-
tion he hurried to Rome and dem anded an
audience with the King. He was received
by the King, to whom he showed the re-
ceipt of the bank for the money he had
repaid, and demanded that his Majesty
put an end to the campaign of injustice
against him. The ex-Premier declared
that unless the campaign Of prosecution
against him was ended he would defend
himself to the last, adding: in such a
case two persons go into exile-I as a
poor man, and you, sire, with your mil
lions.
The general imp ression is that the mat
ter will receive speedy trial in the
courts, but it remains to be seen what
will be the effects of the ex-Premier's in
terview with the King.
Crispi's friend maintains that, in view
of the interxiew, trial in the courts is
quite an impossi bility.
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As Minister TO ernstf.

WASHINGTON. D. c., May 25-Among
the nominations submitted to the Senate
to-day was that OF Edwin H. Conger of
Iowa to be Envoy Extraordinary and Min
lister Plenipotentiary o Brazil. Conger
was born in Illinois in 1S43. served in the
army during the Civil War and was elect.
ed to Congress from Iowa in 1884.
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Beid as special Enrov.

LONDON, ENG, May 25.-Diplomatic
correspondence is in progress concerning
the proposal to send special EN- bassador
from the United States to the Queens
jubilee. The name of Whitelaw REID is
mentioned as the probable appointee.
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MARIETTA.

BENNiNGT
COHAkcHE
MONTERREY.


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WASHINGTON. D. c., May 25.-Briga-
dier-General John R. Brooke was to-day
nominated by the President to be ma jor-
general. the nomination was confirmed
i'm IN lately by the Senate.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-07-23
WHAT 1T TEACHES.
The Three Courses Of Study.-The
Faculty. Expenses Of Students.

1t is perhaps not strange that very
large majority of Oregonians are ig-
norant of the magnitude and scope of
the work being accomplished by the
Oregon Agricultural College. The col
lege is not alone great in its possibili-
ties, but it is capable of accomplishing
and is now accomplishing magnificent
results.
Hardly visitor views the extensive
apparatus of the college and watches the
hundreds of students at work in the
various departments, under the direc-
ton and instruction of able and careful
instructors, without expressing aston
ishment People know in general way
that there is an agricultural college To-
Gated here; that it is well attended; has
a number of professors; and they sup
pose that something is being done with
Uncle Sans liberal endowment There
their impressions end. The experiment
station, through its bulletins and farm
ers' institutes, is better known.
The college is in fact worthy the
princely aid extended by the general
government Certain matters in connec-
ton with the school that have called
forth criticism from the public have
been remedied by the wise action of the
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tanning the engine-room, heavier ma
chinery and blacksmith shop, is two
stories, and the new addition is three
stores The hall contains 4o-horse-
power engine, 5o-horsepower boiler,
wood and iron working machinery,
blacksmith shop, dynamo, etc.
The freshmen are instructed in wood
work, Mr. W.. D. Prichard, frst-class
mechanic, having charge of this branch.
The chief idea is to teach the students
the use of tools by having them make
various articles from exercise drawings.
The machines used here are the turning
lathe, band saw, jig saw and planer.
Students are also taught the use of
hand tools.
The second year class takes up black
smithing and the study of mechanical
drawing The students make tools from
exercise drawings, learn to temper steel,
etc A practical blacksmith has charge
of this department.
The third year students are occupied
in the machine shop, working in iron
and steel. They learn the use OF the
turning lathe, drill press and hand tools.
They work from exercise drawings.
The seniors continue their junior year
work Usually the fourth year class
builds some machine. The class of 1893
built dynamo. The following year the
seniors built an eight-horsepower en-
gine, and the class of 1896 made two
wood turning lathes which are now in
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establishing the College at Corvallis,
provided the citizens of Benton county
should erect upon the College Farm
brick buildings to be completed on or
before January Ist, 1887.
Iff the succeeding two years popular
subscription was made, and the present
main college building was built, and
the Legislature at the session of I887
permanently located the College at Cor
wallis.
In the meantime, however, the au-
thorities of the church in the Southern
States determined to revoke the action
of the Oregon Methodists in sur
rendering the College to the State, and
at Albany, at their conference, Septem-
Der 10th, 1885, passed a resolution pur-
porting to rescind the action of the Day
ton conference, claiming that same was
unauthorized and void Under the di-
rection of the church authorities, the
Board of Trustees thereafter sought to
revoke the action of the Board in max
Ing the ueeu Ol tlS idiIl " IiiS soldlC'
and authorized a lawsuit to set aside the
deed and maintain the former relations
between the church school and the Agri-
cultural College This suit was brought
and Hon. George H. Williams was en-
ployed by the church people as coun-
sci. The Board of Trustees of the State
defended the said suit, and at the next
term of Court, demurrer was sustained
| by Judge Bean, then on the bench, to
the plaintiffs complaint, and decree
was made dismissing the suit. This
however, was appealed to the Supreme
Court, and on November 22d, 1888
the Supreme Court reversed the decis-
ion of the lower Court, and sent the
case back for trial The principal con
tention by the defendants in that sui
was that the appellants, who were mem
bers of the Methodist Church, JOSEPH
Liggett being the first named, had NJ
interest in the subject matter OF tn
suit, and had no right to bring the suit
The Supreme Court, however, held, up
on the facts stated in the complaint
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A Brief Sketch Of the Well Known and Very Capable
Educator who is at the Head Of the College

Dr. Thomas M. Catch, recently elected
president of the Oregon Agricultural
College, at Corvallis, is of old American
stock, his fathers farm, in ClermontI
county, Ohio, on which he was born
in 1888, and upon which he worked un-
til he went to college, having been in
the possession of the family since 1898.
He was educated in the Ohio Wesleyan
university, graduating in 1855, with the
degree of A. B., after which he took a
course at the Lane Theological Semi
nary in Cincinnati. He emigrated to
California by the Panama route, and
proceeded to the mines. While there
he became quite i'll, and upon his re-
covery accepted the chair ofmathematics
in the University of the Pacific, at Santa
| Clara In 1885, he was elected to the
chair of ancient languages OF Willamette
university, and the next year was elected
to the presidency of that institution. In
August, 1865, he resigned, and the fol-
! lowing five years were spent in Calitor-
mia and Portland, Or, where he was
principal of the old Portland academy,
many of Portland's leading business and
professional men of the present time
having been under his tuition at that
school, From 1870 to 1880 he was again
president of Willamette university. He
was a member of the state board OF edu-
cation from its first organization until
he left the state. In 1877 he was elected
mayor of Salem and was reelected in
1870. While at Salem, he was elected
president of the territorial University
of Washington, but declined, and was
elected the first president of the Univer-
sity of Oregon, at Eugene, which he also
declined, but later accepted the profes-
sorship of literature and history in the
latter institution While at Eugene, he
was solicited to take charge as principal
of the Wasco academy, at The Dalles,
and remained there until 1886. In that
year he made trip to Europe, visiting
i schools, and the universities of Oxford
Edinburgh and Heidelberg, and visit
4 ing the homes and haunts OF the literary
] men of the Lake school and OF Scot
,l1and. In 1887, he was again elected
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acres, in Oregon, to the establishment
of an institution wherein agriculture and
the arts and sciences should be taught,
it found the State of Oregon without
equipment for conducting such school.
- On October a7th, 1905, the Legisia-
ture OF Oregon, through the influence
OF the members from Benton county,
passed an ACT accepting the giu OF the
General Government, and provided that
the CoryaillS Conege Snouiu DC leln-
porarIIy the Agricultural CoIege OF the
state. CorvaIns Conege was all Incor-
porated institution couuucleu unuer the
auspices OF the MetnoalsI L. Lnul lcn
ooutn. 1t at once accepted tne uuty
imposed upon it, and thereafter, ON OC-
toDer zIst, 1870, the Legislature passeu
anoIner act, permanently locating Inc
agricultural College at Corvains, aIiu
designating and adopting Corvaills Coz
lege as the Agricultural College OF the
state of Oregon.
In 1871, a small farm, consisting OF
sixty acres, on which the college build
ings are now situated, was purchased
by popular subscription and donated TO
the College for the purpose OF an Agrl-
cultural College Farm, to be used IN
connection with the College tor expert
mental purposes. Thereafter the Col
lege had a useful career, and, under the
presidency of Mr.. Arnold, became one
of the leading institutions OF learning in
this state. Among its Alumni are men
prominent in the professions and public
life.
For many years, however, the fund
from the sale of the public land was
small, and the agricultural and mechan-
ical functions of the College were nomi-
nal rather than real. AS time went on
there grew up feeling of antagonism
in the State to the College, because
of the fact that the public money do
mated for the benefit of the whole State
was expended to support denomlna-
tional school, The controversy contln-
ued between the opponents and the
friends of the College for some years
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president OF the territorial University OF
Washington, and he reorganized that
institution into the state University OF
Washington. He served as its president,
upbuilding the school with great sue
cess, until 1895, when, at his request, he
was given a professorship. During the
time that Professor Catch had charge
of the institution its enrolment OF IoS
pupils in 1887 grew to over 500, and
that notwithstanding the preparatory de-
partments had been cut off; and this
has been his record elsewhere. The
degree of doctor of philosophy was con-
ferred upon him by the De Pauw uni
versity, and he holds the first life di-
ploma issued to teachers by the states
of Oregon and California. Among the
"old boys" as he calls his students, may
be mentioned Judge o. N. Denny, ex-
United States consul to China; Richard
Williams, ex-member of congress from
Oregon; c. B. Bellinger, judge of the
United States court, Portland; the late
Frederick Schwatka, the Arctic explor-
er; George w. Mcbride, senator from
Oregon; Judge J. N. Stratton, OF Sc
attic, Hon. John B. Waldo, ex-chiel
justice; Judge H. H. Hewitt, o.
the third judicial district, and a host
of other substantial men all over the
coast. Few men hold the affection O.
their students as does Professor Catch
In the management of the different in
stitutions that he has been connected
with he has evinced exceptional bushes:
ability, yet he is first and last teacher
and delights in gathering his pupils
about him in the classroom for instruc-
ton in the principles OF everyday lite
that shall ultimately make of them up
right men and women. He is proud o
his profession. His patron saint /:
Arnold, of Rugby, the teacher OF Ion
Brown Hughes, and the beloved O
many man of note and scholarship
It is his wish that the faculty OF the
great English master for incubation
within 1his boys" of spirit of fair play
la love of learning and strength Q
character may fall upon his shoulders.
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orally known as the Morrill, fund, Hatch
fund and the interest fund.- The Nor
rill fund this year is $4,000; the next
year it will be increased $1,000, and the
next it will reach the maximum of
$25,ooo, at which amount it will con-
tinue
The Hatch fund is uniformly $4,000
per annum, and has been since the en-
actment of the law creating this fund
by congress in the year 1887.
What is usually designated the interest
fund is the money obtained as interest
from loans of money realized by the
state from sales of Agricultural College
lands, amounting to 10000 acres, under
the act of congress in the year 1862.
The purpose of and uses to which the
Morrill, fund may be applied is explained
in the law of congress creating the
same, as follows:
That there shall be, and is hereby
annually appropriated out of any money
in the treasury not otherwise appropri-
ated, arising from the sales of public
lands, to each state and territory for
the more complete endowment and
maintenance of colleges for the benefit
of agriculture and the mechanic arts
now established the sum of $4,000 for
the year ending June 80, 1890, and an
annual increase of the amount OF such
appropriation thereafter for ten years
by an additional sum of $1,000 over the
preceding year; and the annual amount
to be paid thereafter to each state and
territory shall be $4,000, to be applied
only to instruction in agriculture, the
mechanic arts, the English language and
the various branches of mathematics,
physical, natural and economic science,
with special reference to their applica-
|tions in the industries of life, and to the
facilities of such instruction.
That the sums hereby appropriated
to the states and territories for the
further endowment and support of col
leges shall be annually paid on or before
the 3Ist day of July of each year, by
the secretary of the treasury, upon the
warrant of the secretary OF the interior,
out of the treasury of the United States
to such officer as shall be designated by
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that the appellants were members OF the
Methodist Church, and as such were
entitled to bring the suit in their own
behalf, and in behalf of all of the mem
bers, and that the farm was held by
the Corvallis College in trust for the
said Methodist Church.
The opinion written upon rehearing of
the cause by Judge Lord intimated
that the church had no interest in the
farm, because the deed limited the uses
of the farm to the purposes of the Ag-
ricultura1 College of the State of Ore
gon. Thereafter the defendants answer
ed in said cause, and it being then at
issue, and the then Judge of the Circuit
Court of Benton county having been
of counsel in the case, it was, by consent
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board of regents, and the institution
has entered upon new era OF useful
ness.
At the head OF the college is Thomas
NJ Catch, whose name is in itself a
tower of strength Professor Catch
brings to the institution an extensive
and mature experience in educational
work, mind that is both learned and
practical, splendid executive ability, and
a coast-wide reputation as successful
teacher The hundreds of his former
students scattered throughout the state
give hearty testimony to the splendid
qualities of the new president OF the
Oregon Agricultural College.
Equipment and Funds.
The college has I85 acres of land inn
mediately adjoining the city of Cor
wallis The campus is beautiful piece
of ground containing IS acres, and
worth over 10000. The main college
building was erected by public-spirited
citizens of Benton county at cost OF
SIS, ,ooo This building, the chemical
laboratory and conservatory are in the
campus proper. The mechanical hall
ladies' boarding hall and the dairy build
ing are in the plaza adjoining. AT some
distance from these are the barn build
ings, and still further stands Cauthorr
hall, the young mems club house. These
buildings, together with the apparatus
they contain, represent an outlay OF ovel
$Ioo,ooo and the entire tract of land /:
worth over $4,000.
The college receives from interest or
its land fund about $1,000 per year. Th'
Morrill, act provides this year $23,oo'
from the general government, and thu
experiment station receives $4,000
year under the provisions of the Hatcl
act. The article of Hon. w. E. Yates
secretary of the board of regents, whicl
appears in this issue, discusses at lengtl
the schools financial standing.
The teaching force is 22 strong, be
sides number OF assistants.
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The Most Richly
A Magnificent Industrial School
Growth and tn

to dissolve the compact existing be-
TWEEN the Board of Regents of the Cor
wallis College and the State of Oregon.
to take effect at the close of the then
present scholastic year. The Com
mittee started subscription, but the
public interest in that scheme being
it soon became apparent
that the plan was hopeless, and at the
Legislative Session in January, 1885,
the Committee made a formal tender to
the Governor and Legislature of the
State, of the Agricultural College
in February, 1886, the Board
of Trustees of the College authorized
a deed to be made to the State authori-
ties, of the College Farm. And the
Legislature, on February 18th, 1885,
passed an act accepting the tender, and
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ITS BIG ENDOWMENT.
Resources and Equipment of the
College Discussed by the Secre>
tary Of the Board Of Regents.
[HoN. W. E YATEs.]

All funds of the State Agricultural
College and the experiment station in
connection Herewith are controlled and
expended by the board of regents of
those institutions This board is now
composed of the Hon J. T. AppersoIl,
president; w. P. Lord, governor; H. R.
Kincaid, secretary of state; G. M. Irwin,
of public instruction; w.
NJ Hilleary, master state grange; I. w.
Davenport, Wallis Nash, w. P. Ready,
Benton KILN, Samuel Hughes, ]. M.
Church. j. K. Weatherford, treasurer,
and w. E. Yates, secretary. There are
three separate funds to be expended, not
considering appropriations heretofore
made by the Legislature OF Oregon for
buildings anG grounds, which are gen
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be congratulated upon their wisdom in
securing the College to be located in
Corvallis, and upon their public spirit
evinced by the public subscription which
secured it.
There are many incidents in the his
tory of this litigation which it is pleas
ing to remember, but the limits of this
article forbid more than this sketch.
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Quite number of the influential mem
bers of the Southern Methodist Church
realized that the usefulness of the Col
lege under that management was great
1y impaired by this feeling, and from
time to time made propositions in their
own conferences for surrendering the
control of the school to the State of
Oregon, but these propositions were not
carried. In 1884, however, the confer
ece of the church, at Dayton, Wash,
passed a resolution, the substance Of
which was that a Committee should be
appointed, with authority to collect a
subscription of $25,ooo.oo to build a
brick building for the use of the Col
lege, and in case the money could not
be raised, Committee was authorized
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use A course in electrical engineering
is to be added this year.
The whole mechanical department is
under the direct supervision Of, Pro-
fessor G.. A. Covill He is well equipped
for the work and gives splendid salts
faction Professor Covill graduated
from Cornell University in 1896 and dur
ing the following year was an instructor
in that institution. Later he accepted
position as instructor in the mechanical
department of the University of Min
nesota, and ir 1880 commenced the
successful service at the Oregon Agri-
cultural College.
Department of Agriculture.
This department is of the most direct
interest to those engaged in farming and
those who expect to follow agricultural
pursuits. The head of this department of
college work is Professor H. 7. French,
who is also the station agriculturist and
directs all the experiments in this de-
partment Professor French has been
connected with the college for eight
years. lie SIdQudteu from tlic hlIAi-
gan Agricultural College in 1885 with
the degree of B. S. For the next four
years he was employed as an assistant
on the Michigan college farm and dur
! ing that time took a postgraduate
course. The institution conferred upon
him in 1880 the degree of master OF SCI
ence Professor French is attentive to
his duties and many of the experiments
conducted by him during his connec-
ton with the Oregon Agricultural Col
| lege have been of great value to the
state.
Four years are required to complete
the course in agriculture. During the
first two years a regular compulsory
course, including four terms in black
smithing and wood work, is prescribed
for all agricultural students. After this
time the student can select his indus
trial work and may make speciality OF
horticulture, dairying or stock-raising.
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Department of Dairytng.

This work is connected with the de-
partment OF agriculture, and the course
of study and practical work in butter
making, under the direction of Profes-
sor F. L. Kent, has assisted in making
the agricultural course very popular
among students.
The dairy department was established
| by the board of regents at their annual
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IT'S LEGAL HISTORY.
The Separation Of the School from
Church Control
(BY. HON. NJ. L. PIPES. ]

The outlines of the history of the State
Agricultural College are known to the
older residents of this county. The
purpose of this article is mainly to refer
to the litigation by which the Agri-
cultural College was transferred from
the control of the Methodist E. Church
South to the State of Oregon, and fin
ally established at Corvallis.
When the act of Congress in July ed,
1862, was passed, appropriating the pro-
ceeds of public land, of ninety thousand
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Besides the regular course in dairy
ing, stock-raising, and stock-feeding,
soil, cultivation, ETC., the student has
the benefit of all the station experiments
"a practical education in themselves
The college farm contains las acres OF
good land and is well equipped with
barns, machinery, stock, etc.