Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1903-03-19
NEWS OF OREGON
nFMs or INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS
or THE STATE.
Session Laws viii Soon be Ready for De-
Iivsry-Nsw Mining Corporation Bad
Boys Punished Mining Men to Fight
New Corporations Tax Law-Pcndieton
Painters 90 into Business.

Six Albany boys have been fined for
stoning Chinaman.
Sheriff Brown and Deputies Hemple
and Lachner, of Baker county, are gil
confined at their homes with smallpox.
Foreman ]. q. Godfrey. Of the state
printing Office, says that work is pro :
gressing rapidly on the session laws Of
1908, and that II nothing. unexpected
happens the laws will be out by April
/, which is much earlier than usual.
Fifty men are working on the Lewis
and Clark fair site. Ten OF these are
surveyors who are preparing a contour
map. Twenty other men are clearing
away fallen treee, logs, and dead under
brush, and the rest are planting trees
and shrubs and doing nursery work.
The members Of the Painters union,
OF Pendleton, whom the bosses locked
out last week, have formed q corpora
ton and will become combined bosses
and union painters. The bosses re-
fused TO grant any raise in wages and
20 painters become their own managers.
The Lucky Boy mining company, q
corporation, has been organized unden
the laws Of the state, and has succeed
ed to the ownership of the mining prop
erty in the Blue River district hereto
fore owned by the private partnership
consisting Of L. Zimmerman, Frank
and Fred Sharkey and N. b. Sandish.
Game Warden Quimby is in receipt
lof a copy of report the commission
ers of fish and game Of the state OF
Maine have just published. showing
1.-THE amount of money expended by the
state for the preservation of game,
and also the amount Of money brought
Into that state by outside sportsmen.
The local game warden thinks it would
be a good thing if Oregon followed a
similar plan and appropriated sufi-
lcient money for the hiring of deputy
wardens to enforce the game laws.
j The mining men Of Eastern Oregon
|, have decided to invoke the referendum
, against the Eddy bill, which was en-
, acted by the last legislature. The Law
J which it is the purpose to repeal in
poses tax on all corporations dQinI
business in this state in proportion +
: the amount of the capital stock, Tn
} mining men insist that it will retart
the growth and the progress of the min
irg industry in this state. Petition
are now in course of preparation to b
, circulated for signatures. 1t will re
J quire over 4 1000 names in order to SO
the referendum machinery in motion
A creamery ASSOCIATION has been or
ganized at Pleasant Hill, Lane county
The destruction of a large barn o.
/ the Theodore Staiger farm, two mile
from Salem, resulted in q loss Q
J SO, 900. Eight valuable horses wer
burned. Tramps are supposed 20 hay
started the fire.
Tne fruitgrovers Of the vicinity c
Msdford held mass meeting there an
perfected an organization, which j
known as the Rogue River Fruitgrow
t ers' union. They adopted constitu
? ton and bylaws.
{ For the first time in the past fou
d months Eugene is entirely free of ever
/ contagious disease.
The stockmen's, convention. held
9 Medford last Saturday, was attende
= by 60 of the most prominent cattleme
n In jackson county. Addresses wei
II made by q number Of we'll know
! speakers. A temporary organizatio
{ was made. Another meeting will
!. held March 81 and organize permI
l, IannkIv, &