| Show CARRIE NATION IS' IS IS IS' DEAD Last Five Months of Saloon Life Spent in in Sanitarium I Leavenworth Kan Carries Nation the saloon died here here at p. p m. m Friday Paresis was the cause of death Mrs Nation had been in poor health hea for nio months and on January January January Janu Janu- ary 27 hoping to recover from a nervous nervous nervous ner ner- breakdown she entered the local sanitarium in which she died Mrs Carrie Nation was born in Kentucky Kentucky Ken Ken- tucky tacky in 1846 Her maiden name was Carrie Moore 1 and as a girl it is said she was absolutely fearless earless In her early life she he married a man addicted to the use of intoxicants which created created created creat creat- ed in her an intense aversion to the saloon salDon When ho he died she determined to devote her life to the suppression of the liquor traffic Later she moved to Kansas and married David Nation who sympathized with her temperance principles He divorced her ten years ago Mrs Nations Nation's first saloon smashing was done in the barroom of or the Carey hotel at Wichita December 17 1900 She was arrested and remained in jail several days before she was released on bond On January 21 1901 armed with her favorite weapon I a hatchet Mrs 1 Nation Nation Na Na- tion made another raid in Wichita This she smashed two joints months m Mrs During the n next three Nation Nation- surprised the in v vari var- various rIous rI- rI ous ens Kansas Kansa towns unheralded ed eU and leaving lea a trail of ruined bar bar- room roam roo m fixtures wherever she went Many became vor ter terror stricken when the militant ce advocate cate eato appeared in their neighborhoods and locked their places arid and fled fied before before be be- fore Core the faithful hatchet could get into action Mrs Nation after her activities in Kansas beca m a lecturer aid the edItor editor editor ed ed- ed- ed of a paper called the Mall Mail 1 all |
