IDAHO. Idaho has enacted laws of general interest as follows: Amending law regulating period of employment in underground mines. Regulation of liquor traffic. County local option. Licensing and regulating public warehouses. Employers' liability, restricting defenses of fellow workman and assumption of risk. Provides for recovery in cases of death, of not more than $5000, not subject to debts of deceased. Providing for protection and care of orphans, homeless, neglected or abused children. Providing for indeterminate sentence of persons convicted of any felonies except treason and murder in the first degree. Authorizing corporations to hold stock in other corporations. Primary election law, expressing choice for United States Senator. Authorizing highway districts to bond for construction, operation or leasing of wagon roads, railroads and other highways. Regulating operation and equipment of mines. Prohibiting issuance of passes or free transportation to certain state and county officers over electric and steam railroads and steamboats. Prohibiting wholesale liquor dealers from being interested in places doing retail business. ILLINOIS. An act was passed making it unlawful for any person to follow the occupation of a barber in Illinois unless he should first obtain a certificate of registration. The act provides for a board of examiners of three persons, to be appointed by the governor, and to consist of practical barbers, and that they shall hold examinations and inspect barber shops, etc., and issue certificates of registration which shall be issued to those having the requisite skill and sufficient knowledge of common diseases of face and skin to avoid the aggravation or spreading thereof. The board is also authorized to adopt reasonable rules, subject to the approval of the State Board of Health for the sanitary regulation of barber shops. An act making it unlawful for anyone operating a line of railroad in this state to permit the use of any caboose cars, unless they are at least twenty-four feet in length, exclusive of platforms, with a door in each end thereof and with guard rails, grab irons and steps on the platforms, and in other respects conforming to the act. An act providing that all conveyances and all instruments of writing of whatever nature enforcible in this state that may have been or shall hereafter be executed without the state, whether by a resident of the state or not, without a seal, where the law of the place where such instrument is executed does not at the date of execution require a seal or scroll to the signature, shall be valid in this state, and given the same force and effect in law and equity as if a seal or scroll had been affixed. An act requiring the publishers of school books who desire to offer them for sale for use in the public schools of the state to file sample copies of the books in the office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, together with wholesale and retail prices, and a written agreement to furnish the books at such prices, with proviso that the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall not in any case license the publisher, nor shall school officers contract with him for furnishing school books which shall be sold, at retail prices in excess of a schedule found in the act. Section 4 provides that if a publisher of school books enters into any pool or combination to control prices or restrict competition in the adoption or sale of school books in this state, or if the statements required of him and made are untrue, or if he gives or offers directly or indirectly to any school teacher or dealer any money, gift, etc., to influence his conduct as to the adoption or purchase of school books, then his license shall be revoked by the Superintendent, and his books omitted from the list of licensed books, and all contracts with him may be nullified at the option of the other parties thereto. An act authorizing corporations organized to do the business of accident insurance on the assessment plan to change their organization so as to include among their corporate powers au thority to insure against disability resulting from sickness or disease, and to provide a funeral benefit for their members. A very important statute is the act to revise the laws relating to charities and corrections. Section 1 states the purpose of the act as follows: The purpose of this act is to provide humane and scientific treatment and care, and the highest attainable degree of individual development, for the dependent wards of the state; to provide for delinquents and prisoners such wise conditions of modern education and training as will restore the largest possible portion of them to useful citizenship; to promote the study of the causes of dependency and delinquency, and mental, moral and physical defects, with a view to cure and ultimate prevention; to secure the highest attainable degree of economy in the business administration of the state institutions consistent with the objects above enumerated, and this act, which shall be known as the code of charities and corrections of the State of Illinois, shall be liberally construed to these ends. An act providing that no female shall be employed in any mechanical establishment or factory or laundry more than ten hours during any one day. An act making it the duty of every teacher of a public school in this state to teach to the pupils thereof honesty, kindness, justice and moral courage, for the purpose of lessening crime and raising the standard of good citizenship. The act contains provisions as to the details of such instruction, prescribing not less than one-half hour per week during each term for instruction in kindness and justice, and humane treatment and protection of birds and animals, and the important part they fulfill in the economy of nature. It also prohibits any experiment upon any living creature for the purpose of demonstration in any study in any public school of the state. An act giving power to the city council in cities, and the president and trustees in villages, and in any incorporated towns, to license street advertising by means of bill-boards, etc., and to regulate the character and control the location of such structures upon vacant property and buildings. A bill was passed amending the law in relation to marriages, as the same was amended in 1905. By the statute of that year so called common law marriages were prohibited in this state, and this amendment of that statute further prescribes a ceremonial marriage as necessary in order to constitute a valid marriage under the laws of this state. An act was passed providing that hereafter no ordinance passed by the city council of any city, or trustees of any village, authorizing the issuance of bonds or other obligations, except for refunding an existing bonded indebtedness, shall become operative until such ordinance shall have been submitted to the voters of such city or village at the next succeeding general or special election, and approved by a majority of such voters voting upon the question. INDIANA. Attention is called to the following chapters: 25. Establishing a maximum passenger rate of two cents per mile on railroads. 34. Restricting brokerage in wages. 46. Regulating sale of feeding stuffs. 47. Tenement house regulation. 48. Bulk sales of merchandise. 64. Elections. 83. Public playgrounds in cities. 163. Sanitation in methods and shops of food producers. IOWA. This state gives district courts power to deal with parents and children when the latter are neglected, provides for acquisition of public utilities by cities, firemen's and policemen's pension fund, the removal of county attorneys, sheriffs, mayors and police officers by the district court for neglect of duty and other causes, establishes the rule of comparative negligence in railroad cases, prohibits drinking on railroad trains, limits saloons to one for every thousand of population, regulates hotels, appoints an inspector for the prevention of disease among bees, prohibits secret fraternities in public schools, makes Lincoln's birthday a holiday, authorizes amendments of indictments to correct errors or omissions of form, provides for the parole of convicts, the destruction of noxious weeds, prohibits discrimination in purchase of dairy and poultry products or grain for the purpose of creating a monopoly, and prohibits the use of cigarettes by minors. KANSAS. An act providing for the guaranty of deposits in state banks. This act requires each bank taking advantage of its provisions to deposit with the state treasurer bonds to the amount of $500 in value, subject to the order of the state bank commissioner, and also cash to the amount of $500 for every $100,000 of deposits or fraction thereof. In addition to these sums, each bank must pay into a guarantee fund to be kept by the state treasurer, and subject to the order of the bank commissioner, one-twentieth of 1 per cent of its average deposits. In case of failure of any bank this fund is resorted to to meet any deficiency, after appropriating its assets to the payment of its liabilities. An act prohibiting children under fourteen years of age from working in any factory or workshop not owned by their parent, and from working in any theater, packing house, elevators or mills; and prohibiting all persons under sixteen years of age from working before seven a. m. and later than six p. m., or more than eight hours a day. An act providing for government of cities of the first class (over 15,000), and cities of the second class (over 2000), by a commission, at the election of the voters within the city (including women). When adopted the principle of the initiative. and referendum may be enforced in the adoption of ordinances, and that of recall of its officers. An act deterring the bringing of suits outside this state against persons living within the state. This act provides in effect that where the owner of any matured claim for money due shall bring suit without this state by garnishment of the personal earnings of the defendant, and the original creditor and debtor were both residents of the state at |