CALIFORNIA: The City Council of Oakland was obliged to take action to remove the name of Andy Gump from the municipal primary ballot, when the City Attorney ruled that the presence of a mythical name on the ballot might invalidate the election for mayor.

NEW HAMPSHIRE: By vote of 210 to 81 the House of Representatives passed a bill prohibiting daylight saving, and setting a fine not to exceed $500 for violation of the law.

PENNSYLVANIA: A bill to prohibit any municipality from adopting daylight saving was passed by the Legislature. Philadelphia business men are ignoring the bill.

SOUTH CAROLINA: Under an avalanche of criticism the Legislature defeated a bill to impose a tax of one-half of one per cent on the gross receipts of over $500 of all manufacturers, merchants, retailers, professional men and workers, sales of farm products by the producer alone exempted. The money so raised was to have been spent on colleges, the penitentiary, reform schools and other public institutions.

UTAH: Chief Old Posey (who led a recent revolt of the Piute Indians, which was quelled) was discovered dead in a cave where he had crawled, wounded.

ALASKA: The Alaska Railroad, built by the Government at a cost of $56,000,000, is within a few weeks of completion. It is 467 miles long, extending from Seward, on Resurrection Bay, to Fairbanks, on the Tanana River, tapping the valuable coal and mineral resources of the Territory. Annual revenues from the road already are in excess of $339,000.

PHILIPPINE ISLANDS: General Emilo Aguinaldo, who 24 years ago led the Filipino revolutionists and later took an oath of allegiance to the United States, is organizing an association of veterans of his revolt.