THE STATES

CALIFORNIA: A great forest fire swept over Mt. Lowe, where the famous inclined railway is situated. No damage to the road.

ILLINOIS : Alleged bribery of the jurors in the trial of Governor Len Small now leads to more investigations. Small, accused of misappropriations of interest on state funds, was acquitted last fall.

MASSACHUSETTS: The House of Representatives refused to order a third reading of a bill to authorize the reinstatement of one of the Boston policemen who went on strike in 1919.

MINNESOTA: The Twin Cities are to have the first noiseless (roller-bearing) street cars in the world. They are to be installed in April.

MISSISSIPPI: A tornado hit the town of Savage for the second time in two months, completely demolishing it. Eighteen dead, 100 injured, damages of $300,000.

NEW YORK: Greater New York is planning its silver anniversary to be held from May 28 to June 23. An expense budget of $493,500 allows $100,000 for exhibits of the city departments, $25,000 to provide medals for every member of the City Administration, $20,000 for fireworks. Gothamites will learn how their city has grown. Also, how faithfully the Hylan administration is serving them.

OKLAHOMA: The Reverend W. G. Mahoney, imperial klokard of the Klu Klux Klan, told the Legislature: "This country has a super-government. We must break it. We will."

PENNSYLVANIA: Governor Pinchot's prohibition enforcement bill passed the Senate by vote of 30 to 15. This is considered a great victory for the Governor, as his prohibition program was considered more likely than any other of his proposed reforms to meet strong opposition.

PENNSYLVANIA :Governor Smith of New York flatly declined to comply with Governor Pinchot's request that New York drop her suit to take control of Niagara Falls from the Federal Government and give it to the state. Governor Smith urged that states must fight "growing Federal encroachment."

SOUTH DAKOTA: The State is building a $2,000,000 cement plant. Its product will be sold to citizens at low prices in an attempt to break the "National Cement Trust."

ALASKA: The Presidential fish reservation in Alaskan waters, against which Territorial Delegate Sutherland protested, will continue, according to Secretary Hoover. "Having fitted a lid on the further destruction of northwestern Alaskan salmon," said he, "I intend to sit on it."

ALASKA: Test oil wells are being bored. From one of them a column of soft blue clay flows, filling the six-inch pipe and rising to a height of five feet before tipping over. The rate of the clay flow varies with atmospheric pressure.

PORTO RICO: A new ruling by the War Department will permit the enforcement of the Volstead law on the island. Opponents hold that, since no attempt is made to enforce the law in the Philippines, it should not be enforced in Porto Rico. It is pointed out, however, that Porto Ricans are citizens of the United States and Filipinos are not.