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Show DIVORCE FOR EVERY SEH1RRI1ES Report of State Statistician Haines Sheds Light -on Causes of Infelicity. CUPID FAVORS "ZION"! Kane, Rich and San Juan, Counties Have Record of Year Without Divorce. j The annual rcporl on marriages and divorces was Issued yesterday by II. T. 'Haines, ftalo statistician for Utah. It shows that there were issued during tlic year 1011, 13'J." marriage licenses. -13-, nearly half of total number, being issued In Salt Lake county. The number of divorce di-vorce decrees granted during the same period was 71, a, ralo of approximately one divorce to every seven marriages. The lowest number Issued in any county in the state was five in San Juan. There wem ten licenses issued in .Morgan county, thirteen in Kane county and fifteen in Grand county. Weber county cornea next to Sail Lake In number U licenses, issuing 0-1 during Ihc year. Cache county Issued JJb'l, Clah county ::oi5 and Davis county IS I licenses during Hie year of l'Jll. Salt Lake Favored. The unusually large number of licenses Issued In Salt Lake county in comparison compari-son to the other counties of the state ts explained by the fact that a large number num-ber of young persons are married In Salt lakc at cai-h of the semi-annual conferences confer-ences of the Mormon church. The records rec-ords in the office of tho statistician show that during the year of 190S there were ll"0, during the year 1 000 there wero 1500 and during the year 11)10 there were M05 licenses issued in the state. There wero "210 final and 131 Interlocutory Interlocu-tory divorce decrees granted during 1 H It. making a total of G71. The custom of granting Interlocutory decrees was started start-ed in 1910 anil during that year there were granted 1ST interlocutory and L" final decrees. There were IDS decrees granted In 100S and TiUO granted in 1000. Causes of Divorce. Of the divorces granted during the year l'Jll there were o-HJ granted to -women and eighty-five to men. Causes for divorces di-vorces granted to women are: J-'ailuro to Mupport. tn.1: desertion, -It: habitual drunkenness. C' cruelly. 20; non-support and desertion, :7; non-support and cruelty. cruel-ty. 7; drunkenness and desertion. drunkenness and cruelly, 5: drunkenness and non-support. S: Insanity. 2; felony, 2: adultery, 1: mutual agreement, L Tlic causes of those granted to nin arc: Desertion. 07; adultery, 4; cruelty, fi, disease. 2: bigamy, 2; insanity, 1; drunken drunk-en n ess and cruelty, 2. There were 23S decrees granted Sn Salt Lake county during 1 01 L and 107 in Weber county. There were no divorces granted during tlic year in Kane, llich or San Juan counties and only one in Morgan county. |