The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-07-04
STATE NEWS
MARRIED OR NOT?
This is the Question That is Now
Agitating Provo Citizens
Mysterious Affair.

Provo, July 3.-County Clerk Bachman
received a communication from the sher-
ifs office in Salt Lake City this fore
noon asking him II marriage license had
been issued to John w. Evers and Grace
hyde IN, this county on May 20. 1900. and
also If there was an Elder NJ. Anderson
mere. It did not take him long TO find
that no license had been issued. but took
him considerably longer to run down the
Anderson Elder Anderson, who was sup
posed To have Officated at the wedding,
Was not found however. The marriage
certificate, according TO the report from
salt Lake, which was supposed to unite
Mr. Evers and Miss HIDE in the bonds
Of wedlocK, was signed by Elder N. An
GeTSOn as the officiating minister. and
by Lavina Witbeck and - HOughton as
witnesses. IL was at first thought here
that the marriage had been performed at
Nephi and that was suggested TO the
salt Lake officials. but a later message
from there brought the information that
the marriage certificate was a Joke
according to Mr. EVeTs and Miss HYDE.
and that Mr.. EVers. who had evidently
been under some legal restraint, had been
turned loose; at least, that was the way
things were understood here
In the Provo news notes of the 18th IS
q paragraph to the effect that John W;
Evers and wife of Los Angeles registered
Sunday night at the Grier house in Pro-
VO, and these are evidently the people
who perpetrated the joke on the Salt
Lake officers. Miss Grace Hyde is
pretty girl of about 20 years Of age, the
daughter of Charles Hyde of Spring City.
Sanpete county. ohe has been working In
the restaurant of her uncle. o. W. hyde.
in this city for over year. About four
months ago John w Evers arrived on
tile scene. He is a man apparently about
/ 40 years of age, a civil engineer by pro-
fessiOn, and claimed TO be from Los An
seles and to he connected with some en-
cheering work at Green river. He and
{ Miss Hyde became infatuated with one
another. and about two weeks ago Miss
! HYDE left for her home in Sanpete. The
arrival of Mr.. and Mrs. EVerS IL Provo
Sunday was the first intimation the girl s
/ relatives here had that the parties were
married While here Mr.. and Mrs. oscar
/ W. HYDE the girls uncle and aunt ad-
vised Miss Hyde against encouraging Mr.
| EVeTS' attention. and especially against
| marrying him. One reason for this was
that they recognized him as man who
/ had worked at the Lehi sugar factory.
/ when Mr.. Hyde worked there. He was
| then married and had several children
] His former wife was a Miss Peterson Of
/ I.ehi, now believed to he living in Salt
/ Lake. and Mr. and Mrs. Hyde did not
! know. and do not now know. whether ne
! had been divorced from her. Why the
/ Salt Lake officers took any interest IN
f. the movements of Mr.. and Mrs. Evers or
I Mr.. EYerS and Miss HYDE is. of course.
I not known here The SuppOsitfOn IS that
/ the Lehi Mrs. EVerS caused proceedings
to be taken on the theory that she Is not
divorced, and that she supposed Evers had
married Miss HYDE, and that when II
was found that the marriage ccrtucate
was joke the matter was dropped.
/ The affair looks very much mixed al
] this end of the line. The marriage GER
/ tificate is evidently a hoax, as the par
I ties did net know one another in 1890 the
] date the instrument is said TO bear. Out
the hotel register at the Grier house
shows that Mr.. and Mrs. John W. Evers
stopped there Sunday night. Sheriff
Harmon and County Attorney Page may
try to unrayel the mystery.