The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-13
BOHEMIAN IS RELIGIOUS
The City Has Fifteen Ministers
of the Gospel.
THE DIVORCE PROBLEM
Ministerial Association Takes Action in
the Matter-In the District Court.
Very Few Cases on
.. ths Docket.
Special Correspondence of the Standard.

Special Correspondence of the Standard
Bozeman. Nov. 1.-THE pursuit of agri-
culture if poets and the Bible are to be
believed, brings mankind in closer touch
with nature and the Creator. II this be
true, and it apparently is. the Gallatin
valley, which has larger area of land
under cultivation than any other place
in Montana, and besides grows bigger
crops and richer ones than any other
place in the world. ought to be quite
religious community.
To prove the above statement to be
true it will will be only necessary to
state that there are about eight places
of worship in Bozelnan and some Is
ministers of the gospel, while every little
settlement in the valley boasts church
pr schoolhouse where religious services
Or Sunday school are held each Sunday
But in spite of all this the devil seems to
be always seeking whom he may devour
and is forever and eternally stirring up
family discords and differences. which
often end in divorce. Then lawyer Is
secured. a charge Of cruelty. dssertlon
or some other statutory ground is al
legged in the complaint, and in due course
of time the learned judge of the district
court and not death, doth part the UNI
happy couple Since the two years pro-
hibition of marriage in the divorce law
Of Montana has been treated with con
tempt, divorces are apparently on the
increase and the holy men Of God are at
last beginning to realize that when mar
rage Is not a smooth bed of roses, di-
vorce, and not death, is the remedy,
while the grass widow or widower soon
finds another partner for better or worse
or until death or the district court again
e. f1,ENh ny,1
The Bozeman Evangelical ministers, at
the semi-monthly meeting of the Boze-
man Ministerial association last Mon
day. passed the following resolution:
"Rcsolved. That it is the sense OF this
association that we, as ministers Of the
gospel, should not perform the rites Of
matrimony, except in the case of the in
nocent party having been divorced on
New Testament grounds
The Episcopalian and Lutheran minis
tiers do not contenance divorces. while
the Catholics do not, except on special
dispersation from the pope. This de.
vout resolve on the part of the seven
ministers of Bozeman who signed the res
olution has apparently grown upon them
like the crops in the field in due sea-
son has matured. and now that threshing
time has arrived, the chaff is being sep
arated from the wheat, and only he or
she who has been granted a divorce on
cure the services of minister to per-
form the marriage ceremony. The min
listers having thus placed an impeachment
In the path of his satanic majesty, and
stopped, in part, at least his tritling
with love, 1t behooves them to petition
the justices of the supreme court, judges
of district courts, justices of the peace.
mayors of cities and other religious bod
les to pass similar resolution, in order
that the way of the divorce may be
hard.
But what is one mans loss is another
mans gain, for while the resolution
shows the earnestness and goodness of
the Bozeman ministers and their disre-
gard for dollars, yet the justices of the
peace, other judges, justices and may
ors will now do thriving business in
matrimonial knots and unhappy divorces
will now wend their ways to the little
rooms around the corners instead Of to
the minister's best parlor, and the gift
of a highly colored marriage certificate
after the benediction and foe.
District court convened Monday
morning at 10 o'clock for the November
term. Owing to the fact that both the
civil and criminal dockets had but few
cases on them and the lateness OF the
threshing season. when farmers would
rather be caring for their grain than
the differences of their neighbors, jury
was not summoned. Among other BUSH
ness done one of the prisoners, Norris
Robinett, charged with grand larceny.
was sentenced to one year in the peni-
tertiary upon his entering plea of
guilty. w. H. Adams, the man who set
the trap gun last July which resulted in
the death of w. T. Rhoda, and whose
trial was watched with so much interest
last August, was allowed to go free and
his bondsmen released from further re.
Sponsiblity. 1t will be remembered that
tn 10 SyJt a
identity of the murdered man last Au-
gust at the trial of the case, and the
matter was held over to this term on a
motion to dismiss.
Two divorce cases were on the cvil
docket, one of which was dismissed, as
the defendant had died before the ma
chinery of justice could intervene, and
the bonds of matrimony We're severed in
the case of Rosa M. Nelson vs.. John
Nelson. The court afterwards adjourned
on Tuesday morning until Saturday. when
, few other small matters were disposed
of, and adjourned again until Saturday,
Nov. IS.
A man named William Mabel was tried
before Justice of the Peace A. d. Nc
Pherson on Wednesday of this week for
stealing shocks of grain from the ranch
of Daniel Maxey early last Tuesday
morning. While Will Maxey was at the
opera house last Monday night he was
time was al hand when he could steal
without detection, SO before Mr.. Maxey
arrived at the ranch on Tuesday he had
taken a load of grain in the shock to his
home in the brush near town and hid
1t under some straw. As soon as the
grain was missed the next morning sus-
picion fell on Mabel and his premises
were searched with the above good re-
suits. He was found guilty and sentenced
TO 80 days in the county Jail, his honor,
Judge Mcpherson, stating to him that It
was only the fact that he had a large
family dependent upon his exertions that
prevented him from getting a much more
severe sentence.
The city of Bozeman is growing quite
rapidly, as not only the number of
buildings erected during the last six
months indicates, but the improvements
which have been made to the various
local enterprises, is proof positive.
Among the most important is the change
in the route of the BoZeman Street Rail-
way company to the college. the paint