Here's a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Supreme Court's efforts to repeal obsolete laws offer a trip down memory lane, to the days when passenger trains sped across the Snake River Plain and the telegraph let people quickly communicate over the West's vast distances. Court administrators went in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday, part of justices' constitutionally mandated duty to help the Legislature modernize Idaho's code. In the era of passenger trains, Idaho required stations to communicate late arrivals from waiting room to waiting room — by the trusty telegraph, not today's ubiquitous cell phone. Failure could result in a $100 misdemeanor fine. While passenger trains still use the old Northern Pacific Route through Idaho's far north, the Supreme Court says it's high time to bid the telegraph notification requirements a fond farewell.