The Socorro Chieftain comes out in a ring-…
source date: 1889
availability: public-domain

he fugitives, but they had not then arrived. Don Felipe Gutierrez, a Mexican congressman, and a brother-in-law to the present governor of Chihuahua, who is here on mining business, met the revolutionists, and advised them to go home, but they are afraid to risk it yet awhile. The Socorro Chieftain comes out in a ring- ing article against the “social evil” of that city. It claims that many men and women living there as man and wife have never been married, and the paper proposes to see this sort of business is stopped. If not it will bring the cases before the grand jury and indict the criminals, for such they are under the law. If New Mexico expects to be admitted as a state this law cannot be too rigidly enforced. From lhe November 1, 1889, Issue of The Enterprise