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Show NO REAL REFORMATION IN RENO. An Ogdenite, who labored under the delusion that Reno, Nov., had reformed, reform-ed, was present in the district court in that city a day last woel; when four divorces were granted in a little lit-tle over an hour. He was Informed that, while the new law requiring a year s residence in Nevada, before a divorce cin he granted, had somewhat lessened the colony of unhappv married people, I the courts continued to do an ox- 'ti.sive busines-B in untying nuptial knots. Nevada wag moved to change tfl divorce law. not out of deference loi ihe good people of that sr:ite, but in response to a demand from the clerks and other workers of Reno, whose positions po-sitions are belns r.pplled for and filled the interlopers seeking release ivotn their mntrimonial mistakes. That is the story brought back to Ojden. The working ieople of Reno discovered thnt the outsiders wero closely questioned In court as to evi- Idrnce of bona lide residence and that llii so who could prove they were eni-pioyed eni-pioyed were accepted a entitled to all the benefits conferred by the laws I of Nevada in pases, of conjugal In- I felicity; with this Btartling effect that ,ry one nf the sojourners in the divorce colony an applicant for a job either ,'s clerk, bookkeeper, sten-q sten-q rapher, maid or common laborer The clerks and stenographers lorth-.vith lorth-.vith organizod to put an end to Ne-ada's Ne-ada's disgvaof, not because it was a disgrace, but owing to the loss of jcl.is it had l ro ight about Nevada is getting credit abroad as having hzd a mora! awakening when, as a matter of fact the moral phase has received least attention and commercialism has had to perform the work of I purification While Iho Ogdenile fae iu Reno lie met a N w Vorker who had attached at-tached himself to the town bj secur- ! ing a pocltion st $S a week, and who w anted it understood, in a confidential confi-dential way, t hi! t though he there appeared ap-peared cheap, at home he recehed $M00 a year. Ihe I'tah mr.n wa.-, informed that hundreds of men and women iu Reno I have willingly worked at anvthlng liand at any wage In order to be classed class-ed as reai4lens of Nevada and all this sacrltice was for divorce. it is estimated li00 people go to Reno each year for no other purpose l(v'an to be released from matrimonial j bondage. |