Show know where T they hey were where a meandering river constitutes tile the boundary ot of a nation or state changes in the couise chinse of the stream give rise to problems of civil government as the following incident illustrates A minister in ia the southern part of south dakota sas as called upon once to officiate at a vi wedding edding in a nome in fit the bend ot of the missouri river during the high m water ater of the preceding spring this the river had bad burst over the narrow neck at the ben and at the time of the wedding it was flowing on oa both sides of the cutoff cut off so that there thera was a doubt as to whether the tha main channel ot of the the interstate boundary line was north of 0 the them mailI and they were in nebraska or south of oc them and they were in south dakota io X be assured of 0 the legality of 0 the tha marriage rite the bridal couple minister and witnesses rowed to the tea north bank and up tip the south dakota bluff the marriage service was performed the bridal pirty party ri returning turning they cared not to what state tor for tho the festivities |