Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1911-02-06

comes from the divorce mill and the
divorce colony puts up for nearly the
entire livelihood OF the 5000 souls
in Reno. Take away the divorce col
ony and you take away Renos rea
existence. There are usually from
600 TO 200 divorce suits pending
there, and that means just that
number of residents who are putting
up from S. TO SO per day At the hotels
and boarding houses, and spending
more money besides every day. This
means pretty large sum OF money
each day, and, outside the gambling
houses there, the city and its resi-
thing
Live On Divorces.
There are about a hundred at
torncys i'll Reno, and all OF them
have to make their living largely
from the divorce mill. | was told
that only one suit was tried last term.
ont side of divorce suits, and that WAS
Tor about $40 Every Court paper
filed costs $l0 and every attorney
charges enough, you can bet. while
the Court costs are equally as steep.
oh, those who 90 to Reno for di-
vorcc certainly pay the freight all
right The cafes and winerooms,
dance halls and gambling places
flourish, but all agree that ii a bill
which is threatened in the Nevada
Legislature extending the legal resi-
dence to one year, should pass. you
couldn't give away the finest hotel,
dance hall, gambling house or cafe
for ticket to Carson City.
III the Nevada Legislature passes
that bill it will kill Reno deadcr than
a mackcrcl. Reno is the largest city.
in point of population, aud ii is the
divorce mill that has made it. As
the law now is, a prospective divorce
can go there, remain six months and
secure legal residence. Then service
is made on his divorce suit This
may be by publication or personal,
and then the defendant has about 80
days more in which to answer. In
all it takes about eight months to
reach the Divorce Court with your
case, but, once there, why, it is like
rolling off a log. Only one witness,
the plaintiff is necessary and decree
is handed out so swift it would make
gour head swim The next train
usually carries the citizen and his
or her baggage back to civilization
That last, civilization, may be hitting
them pretty hard ont there, but surely
any one who has been i'll Reno will
agree with me that it is correct
There is nothing there but alllali
dust and sage brush, and, as one
fellow said to me, Reno has the same
possibilities that HI has. All that
HI needs to make it a pretty nice
place is water Yes. they depend OH
the SHOWS out there to furnish water
during the summer
Lewis did not seem overly flush
with money when | got there. He
had been running a little restaurant
but quit that, and he hadn't much
money when | arrived, but the di-
vorce colony had plenty and they
went to his rescue. The case Is
scheduled to come up in the Nevada
Supreme Court on February Is, and
ii we win again we can easily get
Lewis. unless they get the case into
the Federal Courts in some way. Ii
would have cost me twice as much
to stay there until the finish as to
come home and go back. oh, Reno
is nice place in which to get sepa
rated from your money. but it will
be the deadest place in the country
: It the Nevada Legislature passes that
1 bill extending the time OF residence
I to one year"