The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-04-26
IDAHO NOW
DIVORCE MECCA
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tos.sscsaH Tso pesaxnt sgRss afw laA'
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+ Land fuT The neser ecAstug matsltsde
II riea fusa ard wonsea ~ho for one
/ Fssas8n CT anuthss. aesirp 80 break
their matrimonial hoaas .nd enter
1 fhe Try asain cirvAn
This wudaru stir and fiattes hss
( te~n caused ~ she action ~ The
/ Legislature IT South Dakota la
q ssnssne che lawa ~ thst state 40
rs TO require a residence ~ enc sesr
instead " six months. as st present.
before either party 10 marriage
contract can legally sue for its eiis-
f solution All hearings must be pub-
/ he and personal service must BE- Sc
| cured.
! 4 number of lawyers In the South
! Dakota Legislature who are deeply
! interested III the revenue accruing
| from the existing free and easy III
yoree laws there put up stout fight
/ IN prevent any change in the statutes
+ but public opinion Was oycrwhelm-
1 inEly against them and they had 10
| give up. Four-fifths of the divorce
business" is thus killed in South
! Dakota.
Idaho, according TO lawyers Is
now the only state IN the union where
a residence of only six months Is re-
quired as preliminary to q divorce
/ suit. II is predicted that Boise City
will soon have a big hotel and cot
| tage boom. when divorce seekers be
] gin TO flock there from the large cit
| les OF the East.
Blaine Case Big Factor.
! The new law in South Dakota is
| due to the agitation over the speedy
divorce OF Mrs. J. G.. Blaine, Jr. Al
/ though her counsel announced be-
/ fore the decree was sought that she
was intending to make a permanent
residence there, 1t was afterward al
! legged a train was waiting to take her
east as soon as the decree was grant
! ed. Bishop Hare OF the Episcopal
| diocese OF South Dakota, thereupon
/ took up the cudgel and made sue
cessful campaign for reform in the
/ divorce laws
! 1t was Bishop Hare who lobbied
| the only ninety day residence law
out of existence, aroused as he was
at the time by the Baroness de
Steur's divorce case, and her mar
4 rage an hour after the decree was
signed to Count Elliot Ziborowski
who had, it is alleged posed as hel
| cousin and adviser and had "taker
in" the good bishop to his lasting
embarrassment and in way which
almost caused a split in the conSre
cation of the Episcopal cathedral
The baroness is a niece of Mrs. Johr
Jacob Aston.
Under the ruling of the United
States supreme court in the Haddock
case. p divorce may be declared null
and void if obtained in a state where
the couple had not an actual mari
tai residence. as distinguished from
a physical residence.
The Haddock decision made South
Dakota FLY by night" divorces vallc
there. but not valid in any other
state if either of the parties chose &c
contest It. According to the lawyers
1.-THE only divorce which will holt
good under the United States su
preme court decision outside OF th'
, state where IL is obtained is the one
where both parties establish or nave
been legal residents.
New York always sends the larS
r est part of the population 10 thes'
. easy divorce colonies, as IN tna
state decree can be secured only OF
/, statutory grounds, only one cause be
ing recognized by the state law
/ Among those socially prominent II
/. Gotham who secured DEGREES IN IN
!. south Dakota mill are,
Mrs Flora BigcloW Dodge, nov
I, tb. Mrs Hon. Lionel Guest.
b Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr.. nov
o. Mrs Or. ". r. Buii.
b. Barrouess De Steur. now counties
ZiburowSkl
- Clinton q EdgorIy. whose WIZ
= WAS Rose Coglau. the actress
William pu Puut the miiiional'
now der manufacturer.
3 Ffed G,bbard.
e Nrs Roland - MolincuN. vn" al
+. frrward marurd her counsel W"'iA'
b ~ S,uti
"A N.W Jersey which vas 'or wA"
't,tr. comparatively "as' state
! Ur.ra fa obtain litorCf- under "'n
!. .tsue. in chat o,apvet ln lF".