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Show Carrie Nation Deads': i . I 5 J ! Hatchet Is Buried ( j CARRIE NATION. Famous Foe of Saloons Expires Ex-pires in Sanitarium at Leavenworth, Kan. LEAVENWORTH. Kan.. Juno 9. Carrie Nation, the saloon smasher, died here aL 7:05 o'clock tonight. Paresis was the cause of death. Mrs. Nation had been in poor health for months and on January 27. hoping to recover from a nervous breakdown, she entered the local sanitarium in which she died. It became evident several da3s ago that Sirs. Nation could not recover and Dr. A. L. Sumalsky, a plvysieian at the sanitarium, informed ner that tho end was near. She said nothing, but smiled. She became unconscious at noon today and did not, revive. Relatives Rela-tives had been telegraphed for, but only Dr. Sumalsky and a nurse were at the bedside when she died. Worry over lawsuits, which she had filed against a lecture bureau for alleged al-leged failure to pay for services on the platform, is said to have caused her illness. A nephew, P. G-. Moore of Kansas City, Kan., brought her here, thinking that quiet would restore her health. None but relatives and attendants at-tendants have been allowed to see her. A recent attempt, to serve her with summons in a suit was balked by the' owner of the sanitarium. Mrs, Nation was not permiteed even to read her mail, as the doctors feared the letters might contain some hint of the pending suits. The last, five months of Mrs. Nation 'si life in the. sanitarium was in marked contrast to her former activity. Once she saw a physician nt the sanitarium smoking a cigarette. She made no re-monstrauce, re-monstrauce, merely saying that she had done all sho couid to "eradicate the evil." The body will be sent to Kansas City, Kan., tomorrow morning. Funeral seV-vicps seV-vicps will be held thero probably Sunday. Sun-day. Biographical Sketch. Mrs. Carrie Nation was born in Kentucky in 1846 Her maiden name was Carrie Moore, and as a girl, it is said, she was absolutely fearless. In her early life she married a man addicted ad-dicted to the use of intoxicants which created in her1 an intense aversion to the saloon. When ho died sho determined deter-mined to devote her life to the suppression sup-pression of tho liquor traffic. Later she moved to Kansas and married David Nation, who S3-mpathized with her temperance tem-perance principles. Ho divorced her ten j'ears ago. Mrs. Nation's first saloon smashing was done in the barroom of the Carey hotel at Wichita, December 17, 1900. She was arrested and remained in jail several days before sho was released on bond. On January 21, 1001, armed with her favorite weapon, u hatchet, Mrs. Nation Na-tion made another raid in Wichita. This time she smashed .two joints. During tho next three months, Mrs. Nation surprised the .iointists in various Kansas towns, appearing unheraldod and leaving a trail of ruined barroom fixtures wherever she went. Many jointists became terror-stricken when the militant, temperance advocate- appeared ap-peared in their neighborhoods and locked their placos and fled beforo the faithful hatchet could get into action. Remarkably few of the saloon men used violence in resisting Mrs. Nation, although sho was assaulted and badly hurt while wrecking a joint at .Enterprise. .Enter-prise. Kan. By this time the slate of Kansas was in a ferment. Aroused by the spirit of the dauntless woman from Kentucky, the people began lo demand that all the saloons and joints bo closed at ouce. Smashing parties were organized all over tho state. The saloou power was being wrecked. As n result of tho agitation bills were passed by the legislature which strengthened the state prohibitory laws. Thus erratic as her life had been, Mrs. Nation was responsible for the greatest temperance awakening in Kansas, Kan-sas, Mrs. Nation, after her activities in Knnsas, became a lecturer and the editor edi-tor of a paper called the "Smasher's Mail." She did little smashing outside of Kansas. While lecturing in New York she created a sensation by appearing al. the horse show in Madison Square Garden and demanding that the occupants occu-pants of the Ynndcrbilt box contributo money for a homo for drunkards' wives, which she founded in Kansas City, Kan. The home recently was taken over by the Associated Cnarities of Kansas City. |