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

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.