In this city the new law has been carried…
source date: 1889
availability: public-domain

it is brought up ,a little bit, as the saying is. Had the law been such, to make it a criminal offense to sell to disreputable characters the same as in case to minors, it would have done some good at least. It would have kept them off the streets. — Pinos Altos Miner. In this city the new law has been carried out admirably, and we are indeed sorry that it has not been enforced more rigidly in Pinos Altos. The trouble there seems to be that the back entrance, or the adjoining room, has been used to evade the law. This is simply a techni- cal dodge, the result of which is that a lot of half drunken women daily flaunt their shame in the presence of families. So deplorable has become the situation at Pinos Altos, that several gentlemen, who have resided there for years, have been compelled to remove their families from the camp. Upon the occasion of every pay day at the mines, a horde of brazen creatures invade the camp and make ample display of their questionable charms. Only last week was witnessed a sight which in most communities would not have been tolerated for an instant, that of three saddle colored wenches on horse- back aimlessly galloping through the streets, displaying their agility to the admiring gaze of the populace. Something can, and should be done immediately to stop those disgraceful ex- hibits, and the matter rests solely with the respectable portion of the community, and not with the framers of council bill 108. The bill is all right and must be enforced in every hamlet in New Mexico. There are plenty of other laws to prevent these riotous street scenes, and they also should be enforced.