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Show DIVORCE MAKES FEARFUL GAINS ON MARRIAGE IN SALT LAKE CITY Ratio Said to Be Higher Here Than in Any Other City in ' the United States Some Startling Figures From the Office of the County Clerk. 4 THAT the divorce evil is steadily growjng In this city may readily be seen from the 'records in the ollice of the County Clerk. Last year tho ratio between divorces and marriages, as taken from the complaints com-plaints filed and licenses issued, was as 1 to C. For the montli of April this year the latter figure was reduced to 5.54 and for the month ending yesterday yester-day the ratio Is shown to be still further fur-ther reduced, the records showing one divorce to every -1.13 marriages. It is believed that these figures cannot be duplicated in any other State of the Union. During the past n'.or.lh the County Clerk Issued 102 marriage licenses and in his ofllce were filed twenty-three actions ac-tions for divorce, which give the ratio of one divorce to every 4.13 marriages. During the previous month, April, only twenty-two complaints for divorce were filed Jind l'J- marriage licenses were Issued. Is-sued. The total number of actions filed in the District court for May was fev-enty-slx as against seventy-four for the month of April. Out of the seventy-six x!ases. twenty-three were suits for divorce di-vorce and eight of the number were charity cases. |