Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-01-09
NEWS OF OREGON
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS
OF THE STATE.
Move to Tax Corporations Holding Valu-
able Franchises-Horsethie Still at
Work ON the Ranges = Mining Prop
erty Bonded-cfeamery Men Object to
Pure Food Laws.
The First M. e. church of Albany
celebrated it's 50th anniversary.

The First M. E. church of Alban.
celebrated it's 50th anniversary.
The Marion County Bar Associa
ton has prepared a bill for the com
| ing legislature taxing telephone, tel
egraph, express and oil companies
and other corporations holding val
liable franchises.
George McKimmen, the 3-year-old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. George McKim
men, who reside just north of Grants
Pass, died as a result of the severe
burns he received by falling into q
tub of boiling water.
Horses continue to disappear from
ranches about Grants Pass, in many
cases saddles and brides being taken
also. So far the officers have been
unable to obtain any clue as to the
identity of the thieves or their where
abouts.
The Gold King group of quartz
claims, situated on Josephine Greek,
in Western Josephine County, has
been bonded by M Marks, of Seattle,
for $4,000. The claims are not de-
veloped to any great extent, but pre-
sent a rich and vast body of ore.
The Brownsville-Sweet Home stage
met with mishap recently after
leaving Charlottesville for Browns
vile. It was very dark and the
driver ran into stump which upset
the hack throwing the occupants out
in the mud. There were several pas
sengers, but all escaped with nothing
more than a few scratches and a
shaking up.
R. W. Hathaway, creamery man
from Corning, Ia, has located at Med
ford and has, as the result of a con-
ference with a number of dairymen
of this section, decided to put in a
creamery, and expects to have it in
operation by March /. No difficulty
is expected in securing sufficient
cream, as there are now % dairymen
shipping cream from this place to the
Roseburg creamery.
A bill has been prepared and will
be submitted to the Marion County
Bar Association, the purpose of which
is to reorganize the State Land Board
and define the manner in which it
shall conduct the work of selecting
lieu lands The bill proposes to con-
tinue the power Of the Governor to
appoint state land agent, so that
the democratic governor will not be
deprived of this patronage, but the
state land agent is made subject to
the orders of the whole board. The
two land departments are to work in
harmony, and, in fact, to constitute
but one department, so that hence
forth, if this bill should become a
law, there could not recur any such
conflicts as have recently caused so
much trouble.
Creamerymen don't like the law
which prohibits them from remolding
.stub butter" into squares and selling
it as creamery butter.A Much tub
butter they say is just as good as the
standard creamery, and some of it is
better-in fact, butter stored in tubs
keeps better than in squares. Food
and Dairy Commissioner Bailey
says that he does not care how much
tub butter is remolded but he insists
that the butter shall be sold for just
what it is and nothing else. ''If tub
butter is just as good as creamery
in squares" said Mr.. Bailey yester-
cay, sthe people will soon find it out.
All insist upon is that things shall
be as they are represented when sold.
The creamerymen say that the brand
tub butter condemns their product.
But why does it? If tub butter is just
as good as the regular product in
squares, I ask why the brand con-
demns it? l do not doubt that some
tub butter is just as good as any.
All I contend is that whatever man
sells, he sells for just what it is,
whether it be threshing machine, a
steam engine, a paper of tacks or a
roll of butter"