Arizona silver belt., 1895-06-15
VIRTUE yo. VICE.
Battle in the Northern Pineries
 Won by the Former.

The Vast Woods No Longer Filled with
 stecEades iu Which Helpless Women
 Are Kept Prisoners and Chased
 by Savage Dogs.
 Tn the northwest forests where but a few years ago vice most hideous boldly psraded itself in the public gaze and almost to the present lurlled but little concealed in the neighborhood of popu- lous communities, experienced search iails to find any vestiges of the deprav- ity that formerly prevailed Occasional discovery of haunts like those that once infested the entire northwest re. gion now raises decidedly indignant outery against such monstrosities of the past.
 And yet, says the Chicago Journal, it was only eight or ter years ago that every settlement in the pineries and the mining camps of the northwest yicd one with another in infamous and law less practices, Citizens of more than one locality in Michigan or Wisconsin, after pointing ont the Improvements of a AtN'htt'sN itl NiAN tlll'Ntii 1lANfN va NlANiA thriving city, conclude tribute to the moral standing of the place and its citi- gems with the statement that score of years ago this was by reputation the most disreputable town in the United States.
 In every numbering town was to be found from two to dozen stoclades, dens of infamy where womauhood was held as cheaply as in any iarem of an oriental prince At first these stood on freauentcd streets later in by-ways of the city, finally retreating before the advance of public decency to the cover of the woods, half @ mile from any highway. Hithcr were brought young girls enticed from Chicago, Minneap- oEs, and even more distant cities. Every dive had its procuresses in every city within reach. Under the control of brutal men and hardened women the youthful victims were inducteG into their lives of shame, never to be re- leased until death came. High walls of siztcen-ioot timber placed on end surrounded the rude huts. At tue barred gateway vas kept a kennel of fierce bulldogs trained to pursue only the unfortunate women that might at- tempt an almost tuseless-iiight
 The disappearance of even the very
 walls that sheltered these iniquiues is something mar4g lous, Some were razed to the ground by woodmen, wearicd of the inmorality they fos- tered All have vanished cNcepta fewf which stand dccayiup and deserted re+ miadcrs of the old atrongholds. One of l these i in tlIo pine woods across the ! Meuo.ainec river from Norway. hlch. ! J waa one af the most notorious rcsoTts l uf tha northern regl2l, Within tAe t0ekade stood oolnpodious two-siory f.uue house The stlclsade itself was | of rlanllng. sixteen feet high with @ l treug gate facing the front entrance | 1f Jue house, on either side Ot which
 vas kennel Of dogs The escape of woman, asgused as Q man | i1 order to deceive the dogs was the neans uI bringing to notice the char acter of the place and its tenants. i She had been iurcd 10 the place wi.J [ assurances of reputable employment. Twice before she had attempted [ t9 escape, cluding the dogs by her change cf appearance, but had been l gvartakan by the keeper of the place. ! A prominent lawyer in Norway swore | out a warrant against the slave master and secured conviction and q heavy fine. A few rcpctitions of this treat ment convinced him of the adyisability ! of a change of business. He betoolS ! himself to the copper mining country | on thc shore of Lake Superior and cn- ! gagged in legitimate business. He is ! now the possessor of Q fortune of five hundred thousand dollars.
 The house he once occupied when cn | gagged in his soulless business still stands, dilapilated and teuanted only by Che horrible associations, and per laps hy the suffering spirits of the past. 1 On the dceaying framework Of the stoebade s.ill hang tic long p-anis separated by wide gaps through which l may be seen the desolation within. The l gate and the kennels are gone. The doors have fallen and the'thin parti 1 tious are broken through It looks
 what it really is, one of the last of its ! kind
 Exaggerated stories occasionally
 reach tho public of the revival of these ! old haunts but their untruth is evident | from the character of the inhabitants
 that now make up the population, Like l all sections of the country, there is
 more or less immortality permitted in the northwest towns, but the old-time
 stoclzades have disappeared So, too,
 have the gambling resorts, around | which so much lawlessness centered.
 The stirring scenes that made these
 localities so interesting from distance are unknown now, succeeded by the tamcness of business enterprise ob-
 servance of the Sabbath and of the
 civilized customs of Christendom is not
 on the Puritan order, but does not diff
 fer from that of any section of the pro- | Fressive west. These parts have lost
 their well-earned reputation as 'the
 toughest in the United States
 
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