THE STATES

ARKANSAS: A grand jury is making an investigation and Governor McRae is submerged by protests because of the alleged maltreatment of mules in the oil fields. The mules, it is claimed, are worked twelve hours a day, seven days a week, and are often beaten to death in attempts to make them haul machinery through impassible roads.

CALIFORNIA: The first Chinaman ever to be impaneled on a jury in San Francisco was Frank H. Tape, 30, born and bred in America.

GEORGIA: In celebration of the Annual Peach Blossom festival, 25,000 people attended a barbecue at Fort Valley. The equipment included three miles of tables, 700 gallons of Brunswick stew, 22,000 pounds of meat and 1,000 gallons of coffee.

ILLINOIS: A conference of representatives of the Great Lakes states was held in Chicago to consider the Great Lakes-to-Gulf waterway which Illinois is constructing. Wisconsin and Michigan are opposed to it because they state it will lower the level of the Great Lakes, which, as they assert, has already fallen four inches because of the Chicago drainage canal. Illinois experts reply that the lowering of the lakes was due to shortage of rainfall.

IOWA: An ice jam eleven miles long is holding back the waters of' the Missouri River at Sioux City. Floods in various quarters are already noted, and people in the lowlands down stream are fleeing to escape the flood which is expected when the jam breaks.

NEW JERSEY: While the 147th Legislature in its closing hours was passing 27 bills over the veto of Governor Silzer, a storm tore off a section of the State House roof and blew in the plate glass windows of the Senate gallery. Governor Silzer's only comment on the last work of the legislators was: "Praise God from whom all blessings flow. If they stayed they could not do any more good, and if they leave they cannot do any more harm."

PENNSYLVANIA: Representatives of 78 firms in business in Philadelphia for more than a century, met at a luncheon of the Chamber of Commerce.

RHODE ISLAND: The Providence County Jury refused to bring an indictment against newspaper men charged with libel by former Governor Robert L. Beeckman. One headline quoted was: "Beekman and his tool caught in open bribery with payment of $1,500 to Democrat."

UTAH: The arrest and detention of two Piute Indian sheep stealers was enough to send the whole tribe of 50 or 60 Indians on the warpath. They cut the telephone and telegraph wires to the town of Blanding and did some sniping without wounding any one. When a posse set out after them, they hid in the " Dark Tank " country. Two young Indians are reported killed, one of them known as Cowberry Charlie's boy. A reward of $100 is offered for the capture, dead or alive, of Chief Old Posey, head of the Piutes.

WISCONSIN: The assembly passed a bill repealing the state law for physical examinations before issuance of marriage licenses. The state's marriage business is suffering because many couples go to Chicago to wed.