The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-01-25
MRS. NATION
AT LARGE
With Three Other Women to
Help her
The Wichita RefOrmer Broke
Loose Again Tues
day and
WRECKED TWO SALOONS
A Charge of Insanity Will be
Brought Against her
There is Great Excitement at
Wichita and Serious TrOu-
BILE May Yet Result
WRECKED TWO SALOONS
A Charge of Insanity Will be
Brought Against her

Wichita, Kansas, Jan. 21-Mrs.
Carrie Nation, accompanied by sever
al women who are members of the w.
c. T. u, invaded three joints late
this afternoon. They assailed the
mirrors and bottles and other glass.
ware on the shelves with rocks and
sticks. The saloons were wrecked.
Mrs. Nation was assisted by Mrs.
Julia Evans, Mrs. Lucy Wilhert and
Mrs. Lydia Muntz, all ofthe local W..
c. T. U. organization.
With hatchets concealed under their
cloaks, they entered the saloon of
James Burnes, on Douglas avenue,
and did not leave complete piece of
glass or a working slot machine in the
place. All showcases, both for liquor
and5cigars, as well as the plateglass
windows and doors, were broken into
smithereens.
With lightning speed they ran to
John Herrig's saloon and had every
thing in the front room, including the
plateglass windows, broken when he
appeared with Il revolver, placed it at
Mrs. Nations head and told her he
would blow her brains out if she did
not desst. She yielded before the
pointed revolver, and, with her com
panions, ran to the Carey hotel bar,
where she made her initial attack on
the saloons of Wichita three weeks
ago. There three policemen met her
and she struck Detective Sutton with
poker. He showed her aside and
some prohibition youth struck him in
the face. Officer Prizer struck the
youth and knocked him down. The
officer then overpowered Mrs. Nation
and her friends and took them to the
city prison, followed by 1000 people.
Mrs. Evans little daughter pushed
her way through the crowd, scream
ing, and begged for the release of her
mother, but Officer Fox was deaf to
her entreattes.
Chief of Police Cubbon discharged
the prisoners after they reached the
Jail, and is heartily condemned by the
citizens. They made him a promise
not to wreck any more saloons before
noon tomorrow
Mrs. Evans hand was badly cut by
broken glass, and her husband, who
is physician, sewed it up.
Mrs. Nation wrecked Wichita
Joint December - and did damage
amounting to $1,000. She was arrest
ed and put in Jail. ON account of a
quarantine she was not allowed bail.
January the Kansas supreme court
ordered her released on bail. Last
Thursday all charges We're dismissed
against her by the prosecuting attor-
ney, who said Mrs. Nadou's mind was
affected and thai Jail sentence would
do her no good.
Mrs. Nation lectured in Hutchinson
yesterday evening, Although poor
speaker, she is success at drawing
crowds, and the large church was com.
pletely filled by those who wanted tC
see the woman whose pecu lar methods
of enforcing the prohibition law ha,
brought her so much notoriety. In hel
speech she said:
"You'll hear of me again before
long, and it won't be from a lecture
platform, either This lecturing j:
merely a side issue, God is sending
80 out 20 IL, chic ,y,rly md IIa linton, Il,
that | keep up what / have already
done in Wichita, and I'll do it
Wichita isn't the only town in Kansas
that has rocks and brickbats in the
street, and it isn't the only town tina
has joints"
Mrs. Nation is something of al
enigma. She is large, about go year.
old and IA mild appearing woman
Occasionally in making her most vehe
ment threats against the saloon men
she will smile as if talking upon
pleasing subject. While fanatical
her fanaticism is Of "A peculiar cast
She does not impress her hearers "a
being irrational, as she is looked up
on at Wichita. Occasionally, how
ever, there is "A peculiar glitter in he
eyes and now and then she make
statements which seemto showan oven
wrought condition of the mind. Re
ferring to her experience while in Jat
at Wichita, Mrs Nation said she feal
ed that every dish of food brought he
might be poisoned She imagined thu
her enemies would do her bodily harm
"For three nights fastened my ce