Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-03-28
Indians, the only white person spared
by the red-faced savages. .
Mutual insurance to be Revived.

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by the red-faced savages.
Mutual insurance to be Revived.
Mutual fire or livestock insurance
companies can he organized in Iowa
under a bill introduced by Senator
Taylor OF Buchanan county and known
as senate file 299. Strange as it may
seem the Thirty-fifth general assem-
bly, enacted law which prohibits the
organization of such companies in this
stae. 1t is claimed further for this
act that it will make possible greater
competition in fire and livestock =.
surance companies and therefore have
tendency to lower rates. There j.,
also in the bill a provision for admit,
ting outside companies to do business
in this state provided their home sta :
admits Iowa companies.
Fish and Game Laws.
Next to highways and the state
printing proposition about the most in
teresting question before he legisla-
ture is that relating to fish and game
Eighteen different bills have been in
troduced in the house touching some
phase of the fish and game situation,
and five in the senate. Here are the
points involved and the name Of the
author of the bill; Permitting fishing
with hook and line at any time, Ger
tel; relating to use Of spear, etc .
Turner: removing protection from
quail, Findley; requiring li'ense OF
nonresidents for fishing, Dean: closed
season for praire chicken, McFarlane:, :,
classify mourning doves as game
birds, Oertel: forbidding hunting IL
cense to one under IS, Finley; re'at-
ing to seining of non-game fish, s: t.,
relating to closed season for pheasants
Neff: exempting old soldiers from
hunting licenses, Anderson of Greene;
authorizing fishing with rod, line and
hook, Finley; fixing a closed season
for raccoons, Meredith, providing
family licenses for fishing, Wilson and
Crozier; amending as to the time for
use of hook and line, Murray; exempt
ing old soldiers from license law, An
derson of Greene; use of fish and game
fund to pay damages by hunters, Gilt
ner; removing protection from cat
fish as game fish, Durbin; game pro-
lection in hands of the sheriff, Mooty;
requiring screens at pumping stations
Indy; relating to catching rabbits
with ferrets, Grout; closed season for
prairie chickens to be extended,
Grout; authority to maintain parks by
Game Warden, Holdogel trapping
beaver. mink, otter and muskrat, Fel-
lows
Chiropractic Bill Defeated
/ If petitions avail anything their af-
fectiveness should have borne fruit
when the chiropractics bill was called
in the senate. More and longer petit
tions, were sent to the legislature ia
[yorable to he legalizing of this cult
than were ever received upon any
other pending measure in the history
of the state. But when the matter
came to vote only Is senators went
on record favorably to the bill.
New Automobile Rules.
Senator Rule, of Mason City. out
lines in bill introduced in the senate
last week, what he regards as safe and
sane procedure in the running of an
automobile. The cut-out is to be placed
in the discard while the vehicle is
upon either street or public high
way. The bill provides further that
no child under IS shall be permitted
to drive an automobile. The present
law fixes the limit at Is years.
No Increase in Mileage for Supervisors
The Bruce bill which has passed the
house requiring cmfwy shrdlluhrrd
house providing for an increase in the
allowance for mileage for supervisors
from 5 to 10 cents mile was defeated
in the senate. The Rayburn bill has
passed both houses allowing jurors
50 per day instead of $3.50. The Kim
ball bill which passed the senate pro-
vides that on petition of 10 per cent
of the voters of county the people
may vote on the question of whether
or not county supervisors shall be
elected from the county at large or
by districts 1t also provides that a
vote may be taken on whether the
number of members of the board OF
supervisors shall be three or five.
More Normal Schools.
At ever session of the legislature
for the past thirty years bills have
been introduced providing for addi-
tional normal schools. Numerous
counties have such things under pri-
vate control and the desire to have the
state take over such enterprises
prompts the effort. Bloomfield has
such an institution and representative
Anderson of Davis county, has intro
duced bill making an annual appro'
priation of 100000 for establishment
of three new normal schools in ths
southeastern, southwestern and nortG
western sections of Iowa. Guthrie
county has offered the state her count!
high school at Panora. Shenandoah
has haan irving for wears to get thI