The Socorro Chieftain comes out in a ring-…
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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