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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-27

for kiddies and to darn her hus.
bands socks. Her ambition was IL
children in II years, she said. So
ciety took up Mrs. Frohman, and
no sooner had her divorce been
obtained that she married, here in
Reno, E. J. Bowes of Tacoma. So
ciety was shocked, and now a di-
vorcee can't break in with a stick
of dynamite.
Why is Reno haven for heavy
hearts? Read the answer in the
statutes:
502, Sec. 22.-Divorce from the
bonds of matrimony may be OBJ
tanned by complaint, under oath, to
the district court of the county in
which the cause shall have ac-
crued, or in which the defendant
shall reside, or be found, or in
which the plaintiff shall reside, if
the latter be either the county in
which the part last cohabitated, or
in which the plaintiff shall have re-
| sided six months before suit be
| brought. for the following causes :
And then it gives these causes
! in addition to the statutory
grounds: Willful desertion,. at any
time, for one year. Extreme cruel.
| ty. Neglect of husband for one
year to provide common necessi-
ties, when not the result of pow
erty.
1t is not the grounds. but the
ease with which the courts find
jurisdiction, that makes Nevada a
haven for heavy hearts. If two
want divorce, they leave train in
the state and one commits an act
of cruelty Neither need be resi-,
dent. or the defendant may be
found" passing through the state
and served with papers. Or either
may reside in the state six months
OF the colonists 80 per cent live
in the five hotels of which Reno
boasts. another 30 per cent are cot
tagers, and 40 per cent find EN-
ployment The latter are wait
resses, manicurists, hair dressers,
saleswomen. stenographers. tele-
phone operators Or maids. Their
thraldom need only last but 1872
days.
Prosecutors, miners, gamblers
fasteners. Indians, Chinese, Japs,
doctors, lawyers, real estate men,
merchants. actors, men from every
walk in life flock to this American
| EldOrado, which nestles brilliant
white in its setting of emerald on
the eastern slope of the Sierra Ne
vada mountains. The rattle of the
roulet ball, the drone of the deal.
er's voice and the clip of the crap
dice go on uninterruptedly, and
there is often high play. Much mon
ey changes hands nightly, for this
Is one of the few diversions of the
rich in the divorce colony.
Divorces average five day
Sometimes the number reaches Is
New cases are filed daily and sci
for hearing as soon as possible af
ter the completion of the 1S2-day
residence.
Few cases are contested. save
where statutory grounds are al
legged. and this is seldom neces
sary, so many other excuses are at
hand. An uncontested case can be
disposed of in Is minutes. Secrecy
and expedition draw the heavy
hearted as poultice draws inflam
nation. Only the extreme in sen
sationalism attracts attention.
Reno boasts more lawyers than
any other city of 10000 in the land
The great mining interests require
the best legal talent, and enormous
fees have attracted divorce spe
cialists. Bench and bar oppose re
codification of the divorce laws
and have stopped at least one leg
islative attempt in this direction
| Divorces cost from S25 IN anf
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-27

up" means the sky here, where
the smallest coin is the two-bit
piece, and Join me, old man.
mean wine, and wine" means the
wealthy water.
The story of Reno and Gold
field would not be complete with
out reference to Thomas cafe, in
Goldfield. Bohemian is the only
word that fits Thomas. Here gath
ers heterogeneous crowd nightly,
listening to the music and drink
ing the product of the grape.
At one table a party of merry
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-27
BY HARRY G. FARMER.

RENO, New, March 26.-When
South Dakota amended its resi-
dence requirement from six months
to one year, Nevada sent Reno and
Goldfield to the post in the Great
Divorce Stakes as a coupled entry
Nevada started as territory
with the loosest divorce laws ever
written. and she didn't change
them when she became state
Hence Reno is to the unhappily
mated what Mecca is to the Moham-
medan. Matrimony's gordian knot
is no mystery here. And what is
said for Reno goes for Goldfield
never heard of until TEX" Richard
staged the first Gans-Nelson fight
Within the past six months. 96
divorces have been granted by
Judges w. H. A. Pike and John S
Orr. Fifty-folr cases are now on
file The divorce colony numbers
about $50. with additions coming at
the rate of six a week.
Within the last six months, wo
men whose names are well known
in various ways have been divorced
from undesirable" husbands. The
most prominent are Mrs. Frederick
Lewis Colwell Mrs. Keith Donald
son, Mrs. Henry Spies Kip, Mrs
William Lee Stoddart, Mrs. Elihu b
Frost, Mrs. Daniel Frohman (who
was Margaret Illingtom, Mrs. Lu
Glen c. Shellabarger. Mrs. Raymond
c. France, Mrs. Claude F. Day and
all hn lot act
prominent arrival is Virginia
Harmed Sothern.
lit-'em-asunder lawyers at home
advise fair clients to try Reno when
quick action is wanted They arm
them with an introduction to a loca
correspondent and are content that
the mills of the gods and Nevada
jurisprudence will do the rest.
Reno is cosmopolitan. The petted
daughter of the 400 and the darling
of the thcater-going public rul
Parisian-gowned elbows with the
Handicapped squaw.
Divorces are as thick as show
girls along the Great White Way
You see them, grand danes, act
resses, newly-weds, foolish-weds
sufferers from the affinity thing
artists. professional and business
men. The men. aren't so notice
able. thew lose their identity sc
easily But whoever heard of 6
woman losing anything like an iden
tity?
It's easy for those who chafe II
double harness to trot single. Thai
passage, "Whom God hath Joined
together let no man put asunder,
is as meaningless In Reno as San
skirt to Digger Indian.
The colonsts, as the supplicants
are known, live apart from the Re
notes. They have as much chance
to break through society's barrier
as high grader has of escaping i
caught with the goods. There is
a reason.
A little more than year ago
Margaret Illington-Frohman cam,
here with her mother. to secure the
residence necessary to apply for di
vorce. She declared she was sicl
of the stage, and wanted to wee
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-27
AT LEFT, MARGARET ELLINGTON, WHO DIVORCED DANIEL
FROHMAN RENO. RIGHT, VIRGINIA HARMED BELOW
II

makers are drinking toasts to a
fair Divorce whose case is uI
soon, while at near by table, per
haps, the husband sits with an
other party.
And usually it is a woman, hel
wits sharpened by excitement, who
exclaims clearly, Here's success
to your venture Wednesday, Mrs
Smith," And everyone at the table
joins in, the glasses crashing tc
the floor as they are drained, add
ing to the enthusiasm of the occa
sion
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-27

the Colorado State Commercial
association, perceived the causes
behind the failures among the dry
land settlers and grasped the pcs
sibilities of dry farming if the pro-
per methods were placed at the
command of the dry farmers. He
saw that education must be the
keynote of the movement If 1t
would be effective in the upbuild-
ing of the west. The congress
struggled against prejudice until
the third annual session at Chey-
enne, Wyoming, when it threw off
all shackles of localization and be-
came an international movement.
A systematic campaign of educa-
ton was carried on and it resulted
in bringing dry farming to the
attention of the leading editors in
all parts of the country.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-27

towns are springing up on the
sage brush plains and in sandhill
districts, surrounded with prosper
Gus dry farmers. Dry farming has
become vital part of the econom-
ic development of the nation. Be-
cause of the importance of it's part
in national development the eyes
of the country will turn toward
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-27
RENO, REFUGE OF HEAVY HEARTS AND FOOLISH WEEDS =
WHERE MINISTERS ARE MANY AND DIVORCE EASY
HOW TO PREVENT THE DIVORCE EVIL
BY BISHOP WM LAWRENCE,
Head Nj

Children should stay at home more in the
evening with their parents, and the parents
should forget theaters and clubs and remain
home with their children
Young people contemplating marriage
should know each other intimately and have
each others condolences long before the mar
riage ceremony is performed.
Children should be educated for mar
rage. --.-
There should be purity before and after
the marriage ceremony @'s+is~ s
Young couples who are to marry should
have a sense of solidarity (oneneSs) when
Joined in wedlOck.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-27
SHE VALUES A
KISS AT $1,000

ST. LOUIS, March 26.-Mrs.
Marie Jennings has filed suit in
the circuit court against James
Waring, an artist, for $1,000.
She says she was accosted by
Warning, January %, and that he EN-
braced and kissed her.
Warning was arrested and fined
1925. He says he was intoxicated.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-27
SCIENTIFIC WONDER OF THE ACE---DRy FARmlNe
Turning

Spokane next October when the
congress meets and thousands will
come here from all sections to
see the evidences Of dry farming
successes that are now being pre-
pared In the various states and
territories of the semi-arid west
for exhibition in the international
Dry Farming exposition.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-27
FIRST MEETING OF DRY FARM
ING CONGRESS CONSlD-
Erred JOKE

The growth of the dry farming
movement is one of the wonders
of the present age. A term that
was provocative of incredulOus
smiles and deprecatory jests five
years ago, today Is recognized as
symbolicial of the higher agri-
culture toward which all nations
are striving. The first meeting at
which the Trans-Missouri Dry
Farming congress was formed, was
regarded as a joke, the fifth Dry
Farming Congress which will meet
in Spokane, holds the serious at
tention of nations.
Five years ago there were a
few farmers struggling against
adversely on the plains Of eastern
Colorado, in New Mexico, Utah
and elsewhere in the semi-arid
west. The settler who took up
land in non-irrigable sections of
the west were regarded as fool
hardy, or worse. Their efforts to
make the dry lands productive
were condemned as inviting moth
ing but failure.
SOME NOTABLE EXCEPTIONS
Many settlers who had gone into
the dry regions did fail and many
struggled along for years eking out
bare existence with the aid OF
few exceptionally propitious
years, but numbers succeeded
Scattered throughout the west in
Utah, Wyoming, Montana, Color
ado and in other states were more
or less isolated exception to the
expectations of the pessimists. In
some sections, notably in eastern
Washington and Oregon and Utah
there were notable exceptions, and
in these states dry land farming
was accepted as fact.
Five years ago the newspapers
of the country were loath to pub.
lish articles of the successes OF
dry farming. There was pre-.
valent idea throughout the east
that the greater part of the west
was useless for farming; that des'
ert land would remain barren and
desolate where the irrigating ditch
was unknown, and that so called
dry farming was ridiculous in con
ception and impracticable in ap
plication.
FAILURES CHARGED TO IGNoR
ANCE
The failures that have been re
corded among the settlers on the
dry lands and the prejudice in
the minds of eastern and western
skeptics against dry farming lat
a common origin-in ignorance Of
the methods necessary to success
full dry farming. The settlers who
found the conditions on the dry
lands too hard, did not know how
to combat those conditions. They
did not know what kind of cult
walton to give their growing Oh
dying crops. In brief, they did no
understand the conservation o
moisture or the scientific cult
I walton of soil.
EDUCATION is KEYNOTE TC
SUCCESS
When the Trans-Missouri DR.,
Farming Congress was organized
John 7. Burns, then secretary o
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-27
BY DAVID T. HAM
Chairman Washington Board Of
Control, Fifth Dry Farming
Congress.

Probably no subject of public in
terest in recent years has attracted
such wide attention or spread so
rapidly as that of dry farming.
Four gatherings have been held
for the discussion of this subject
and preparations are now going
for the fifth convention Of the
Dry Farming Congress and Inter-
national Dry Farming exposition,
which will be held in Spokane the
first week in October
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-27
DRY FARMING RECOGNIZED
WORLD OVER NOW

Every state and territory in the
so called arid and semi-arid west
and many of the states in the hum
id districts of the United States
are preparing to send delegates to
this congress and the provinces
of western Canada and the provin-
ces and nations on every CONT
nent are also making arrangements
for representation with delegates
and exhibits. Not only agriculture
lists and operative farmers, but
scientists of the foremost agricult-
ural colleges and experiment sta
tons, at the national departments
of agriculture of various cOun-
tries and officials of many govern
ments, as well as economists and
publicists everywhere are inter
ested in this movement.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-27

The Gordian Knot of Matri-
mony Not Tight at All If
You Can Spend Six
Months Under Nevada s
Genial ws-Gra n d
Danes, Actresses, Profess
SIGNALS and Plain Bread
Farmers in the Throng-
But Reno Society Snubs
Them All.
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-12-19

After three trials and hearing In
the supreme court Bert Tawney, a
Franklin county, Kansas, man, has
been placed In the state prison for an
indeterminate term Of from one to five
years for the theft Of a couple Of runty
red pigs. According to that reliable
historian. Mrs. Goose, the proceedings
In cases OF this nature were much
more simple in those good old days
than at present for she relates that
when Mr.. Thomas. the son Of the
piper. annexed a pig and passed rapid
ly through the streets with the juve
nile porker under his arm and, upon
reaching him home, proceeded to de
YOUR the young animal, he was appre
hended and severely classified and re
leased whereupon he made the weiklr
ring with his howls of anguish ant
the case was dropped without expense
to the commonwealth.
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-12-19

erations must be increased In like
ratio, either by more extensive agrt
cultural operation or by system OF
more intensive farming.
As the area of agricultural lands
suitable to dry" farming is practical
ly all in use at the present time the
consumers of the nation must look
to that part Of the country which has
always been classed as desert lands
and upon which crops cannot be grown
without irrigation, for their supplies
and as this area Is just now coming
into settlement there is room in plenty
for the young farmer who is being
crowded out in the older and more
| thickly settled states and this fact is
one which will bring great prosperity
to the San Juan country and other
| like districts and 1t is to this class
OF prospective settlers We should ap
peal.
Farming, as conducted in the San
Juan district, Is not game OF chance
l
a mere bet with the elements, but IL
actually a safe investment for. will
water, the soil returns surely ant
quickly an enormous profit for the
money and time invested and witt
prices such as the present ones NJ
industrial calling can possible be mor'
remunerative.
To call the attention Of the younl
man of today to the possibilities o
this region is to point out to him tn
sure road to independence and NJ
occupation to be found In the environ
ments of the city can equal the OF
portunities offered for the San Jua
district offers not only wealth bu
health and happiness as well.
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-12-19
ABOUT BOOSTING.

Putting the home town on the map
and keeping it there-making 1t bet.
ter residence town-is matter OF
intelligent cooperation on the part OF
the business men. Intelligent cooper.
alton means forgetting past differ
eI.ces of opinion and working unitedly
for the common good. No business
man in town can achieve maximum
success unless the town as a whole
has first achieved that success. Ev.
cry knock against good business
man in the town is knock against
every other business man in town
Every know against the town by a
resident is boost for competing
town. Take your petty jealorsies and
differences out behind the barn and
bury them forever. Then get busy
for an effort at cooperation that will
make life worth living. You can II
you will.-Steamboat Pilot.
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-12-19
AN INrER.couNTY ROAD.

A meeting will be held in this city
next Thursday of representatives OF
Ouray, Montrose and Delta counties
and possibly Mesa county for the
purpose OF talking over the road ques-
tion. says the Montrose Enterprise. 1t
will be remembered that some time
ago the commissioners of Montrose
county sent out letter to the com.
niissioners Of the other counties of
the western slope asking them for a
conference with the object of arriving
at some practical plan for the build
ing OF an inter-county boulevard reach
ing from Mesa county via Delta and
MOntrose counties to Ouray county
Other matters taking the attention of
the various boards. the boulevard ques-
tion has been delayed until now. but
II is the intention now to push the
matter toa successful completion and
1t is for this purpose that the con-
ference arranged for Thursday will be
held.
The Montrose county commission
ers are enthusiastic in favor of the
movement and expect to do all they
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-12-19
WHAT A GREAT MAN SAYS,

The late Hon. David Davis once
said: Each year every local paper
gives from slOo to $1,000 in free lines
for the benefit of the community in
which it is located. No other agency
can or will do this. The local editor,
In proportion to his means, does more
for his town than any other ten Zen.
and in fairness, man with man, he
ought to be supported, not because
you happen to like him or admire his
writings; but because a local paper
IL the best investment a community
can make. 1t may not be brilliant or
crowded with great thoughts. but fl
nancially 1t is more of benefit to a
community than a preacher or a teach
er. Understand us now, we do mo:
mean morally or intellectually but
financially, and yet on the mora, ques
ticn you will find the majority of To-
cal papers do the most wor', for the
least money of any men on earth. Sub.
scribe for your local paper, not as a
charity but as an Investment, and
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-12-19
BOOSTER MEETING
A GRAND SUCCESS


The local representatives that went
to Durango Wednesday to attend the
big smoker held at that place We'd
Desday night returned yesterday and
reported most successful meeting
and the largest of Its kind ever held
In the Southwest At $3.50 in the even
ing some four hundred or more of the
public spirited men of this section
assembled at Red Men hall and after
Mr.. Graden stating the purpose of the
meeting the meeting was opened for
general speech making Mr.. Richard
McCloud opened the discussions by
reading carefully prepared paper
giving q complete history of the Du
range Board of Trade which was list
ened to with interest, following which
representative speakers from the va
rious towns and counties including Du
range were called upon, all of whom
expressed their views on general con
ditions and proposed ways and means
of improving them. All the speakers
explained the needs and the various
resources of their respective localities
and the burden of it all was tha
| the one main essential is another rail
road. The representatives from Mon
| tezuma county who addressed the
meeting were w. ]. Miller. w. b. Eb
bert. S. w. Carpenter, Harry Pyl.
and j. ]. Downey. All spoke to the
point, the addresses of Mr.. Miller ant
Mr.. Ebbert being worthy of specia
| mention.
The meeting adjourned at a late
hour with the understanding that rep
| Iesentatives from the various local.
ties meet at Red Men hall at 10 o'clocl
| yesterday to perfect plans for unitet
organize ton to advance every ma
terial interest and enterprise of the
entire Southwest. Almost all the del
egates returned feeling that q profit
able meeting had been held and 1
movement started that would result IL
much and lasting good for this coun
| try. Those in attendance from Man
cos were S. w. Carpenter. ]. e. Ptol
cmy. Geo. d. Woods. p. A. Hiebler
Vim. j. Miller. James Frink, George
Mineah. Archie Hayes, A. T. Samson
Earl Faris, George Grebles. L. H
Soens and Thomas Halls.-Mancos
| Times Tribune.
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-12-19

The following item from the Mont
rose Enterprise will interest Herald
readers. We are informed, however,
that the water situation here is not
serious or In litigation as there is
sufficient water in the Animas and
Florida rivers to supply all applicants
| who have reasonable rights to the
waters OF these rivers:
within the next six months the
long standing friction which has ex-
| listed over Indian water rights around
durango. water rights under the
Gunnison tunnel. and over the water
which will be used if the Highline
project on the Grand river goes
through. will probably be cleared up
entirely.
Assistant United States District
Attorney Ethelbert Ward, who has
bad charge OF the Colorado water lit
igation for the government, has Just
returned from a trip to Washington,
where he went to secure action from
the department of justice. He was
instructed to reach agreements with
claimants, which will prevent litiga-
tion. He thinks no law suits will be
necessary and the result will be of in
Culculable benefit. Ward was instruct
ed to secure the Indian supply for all
time This question has caused fric.
ton for eight or nine years. Appli
cation OF water has not been made on
the Gunnison project yet. There has
been friction over water rights and
priorities which Ward Ia confident he
can straighten out The government
requires 1900 feet of water to irri
gate 10000 acres of land.
"The government will require one
thousand feet Of water for the High.
line ditch project, II the board of
army engineers has reported favorably
upon it. There are private filings ag.
gregating $4,000 feet of water from the
Grand river. while its average flow
is $500 feet. Many of these claims
are fakes and worthless. SO that Ward
thinks he can clear up the situation
and assure the government its 1000
feet Of water inside OF six months"
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-12-19
AFTER WILDCAT SCHEMES.

The governors office has been ask
ed for a remedy to prevent wildcat
ting of irrigation bonds in Colorado
While such advice should come from
some reputable legal source. such as
the attorney general. Secretary Ma
lcne OF the governors office, advised
that sure preventative would be
not to permit the sale OF stock In ir-
rigation companies until the scheme
has been declared feasible by the
state engineer This, Malone claims,
would prevent the INSCRIPTIONS from
disposing OF stock before their irriga-
ton proposition had been declared
safe one.
This would be nothing more than
an enlargement of the workings OF
the New York utilities act. under
which no stock of corporation is
permitted to be placed on sale until
the state approves of the enterprise
The same law could apply, Secretary
Malone says. to the disposition OF
stock in Colorado irrigation enter
prises, If passed by the legislature
1t is more than likely that such a
measure will be introduced during the
coming session. One was offered by
Senator Tully Scott during the extra
session that would have covered the
point at issue, but the measure failed
to pass.
Semi-weekly herald., 1910-12-19
GOOD. AGAIN.

When town gets the habit of send
ing away for everything 1t wants
that can be bought at home, then the
merchants feel like allowing the mail
order house the privilege OF support
ing the schools. churches. streets
commercial club, ETC., etc. There are
two sides to this mail order habit
but facts are facts. and thriving local
stores mean home markets for farm.
ers, while the prosperity of the town
depends on Its Individual citizens
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