The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-02-18
MRS. NATION SPENDS
SUNDAY ON A RAMP 6E
Leads Organized Mob at Daybreak on a Tour Of
Demolition, Continued at Intervals.
Breaks Into Cold Storage Warehouse Containing No Liquor
-BaiIed Gut BY Negro SalOOnkeeper.

their axes and soon had the doors and
window frames cut entirely away.
Then, with an eXuHant cheer, the
crowd burst into the building.
Praise God, meni Smash the bot
ties aud the windows" called out Mrs.
Nation again. and raising her Ratchet
she sent it through a window glass
that he'd yet been left.
The policemen managed to recover
enough by this time to grab Mrs. Ma
ton. They started off with her to the
station as rapidly as possible. She
waved her arms and frantically called
out 20 her co-workers:
I "Oh, keep it up; you can do it with
/ out me. Praise God; keep it up, keep
on smashing You don't need me-"
For a moment the crusaders were
thrown into confusion by the removal
of their leader, but the parting words
of Mrs. Nation seemed TO nerve them
I 10 better efforts
The crowd Surged forward into the
building, and soon all the front part
of the room had given way and all
/ could enter at Will
Policemen Struggle in Vain.
A man inside struck a match and
/ then turned on the electric lights.
/ case of beer Was found in the room and
4 it was soon smashed. Slot machines,
] cigar cases, billiard tables, chairs,
: counters and even the stoves were
/ smashed to SmithereenS. The police
/ men danced hitler and thither, trying
20 keep the crowd from destroying the
/ property, but their efforts We're ex-
/ pended in vain.
The doors of the out5uildings were
! smashed IN, but no more liquor was
/ found During the night it had been
! removed TO a place of safety.
After being satisfied that there was
/ nothing else to destroy, the. crusaders
! left the building.
Then it was that they found their
] need Of a leader. They once more
marched to the state house square, to
talk over the situation. The women
composing the party were filled with
( wrath. They declared that the men
! We're towards, and that they never
would go out on a raid with them
again. This aroused the men and tl4ey
started again down town to destroy
some more joints.
Then it was that the Rev. F. w.
! Emerson, who was Mrs. Nations man
lager during her recent lecture tour.
rushed to the front and called on the
Z crowd to desist from their purpose
/ telling them that the entire city was
now awake, and that further action
would be useless. DR.. Eva Harding en-
gagged in a spirited argument with the
/ minister during which some choice
compliments were passed on either
side.
what was left Of the crowd then dis
appeared
Raids Livery Stable.
But while this was going on, another
and more interesting scene was being
enacted in another part of the city.
Mrs. Nation had been released from
the city prison as soon as she was
gotten there and she again started out
on her work. She gathered about her
some of her followers that had not
gone when the large number went back
to the state house grounds and com
manded them to follow her She led the
way to livery stable, where some bars
were stored.
She was met at the door by the pro-
prietOT who assured her that there
was nothing of the kind in the build
ing. She demanded TO have the priv
ilege of looking, however. She ordered
two or three of the men present to
ascend to the loft and ascertain its
[cOnteuts. giving them particular orders
10 search through the piles of grain,
as there they would be the most apt to
find some liquor.
Mrs. Nation at last found in a little
room, back of the office, the fine bars
that had been ordered for the use of
the jOintists of the city and never
used. Picking up a leg of a chair that
was lying near by. she Immediately
smashed the mirrors and otherwise in
jured the bars
Il wish 1 had my Ratchet here" she
remarked, but if can't get it, the
leg of a chair viii do just as Well"
Breaks Into Warehouse.
Mrs. Nation then led the way to the
/ NOser cold storage plant, where the
jointists of the city have been in the
habit of storing their fixtures Only a
few went out with her. but she was de-
termined that this should be treated
the same as the joints
| Mrs. Nation managed to enter the
! cold storage plant, but found herself
in the poultry room. She then tried an
other place and got into the engine
| room. By this time, Sheriff Cook and
| Chief of Police Stahl came upon the
scene, and placed her under arrest.
tThie time she made quite a scene and
: was taken 20 the county jail in the
patrol wagon. Her arrest this time was
on a county warrant sworn to by the
cold storage people, charging her with
breaking a lock.
There had been a quantity of liquor
in the plant the night before, but the
proprietors, in anticipation of possible
/ trouble, had stored 1t in a, large freight
? car on the Rock Island tracks, ard had
arrangements made for a switch en-
/ CINE to come uD at a moments notice
. and pull the car out of the way of dan
! ger Some of the people accompanying
Mrs Nation nc 'ced that it was I'M
usual for a car 10 be in that position
{ but no attempt was made to enter It
When Mrs Nation was again taken
2 down town she was confronted with
: another arrest This time it was foI
l entering the Murphy joint
1 BY this time the people Of the city
/ had begun TO wake no and soon the
streets were full of eager seekers after
E the latest news. Extra issues of the
= morning papers containing the details
2 of the happenings were eagerly pur-
5 chased.
Enters Meeting Dramatically.
S In the afternoon Eva Marshall Shontz
!, of Chicago, was addressing an immense
Q mass meeting of men and women in the
r / First Christian church when she al
at once stopped, with the remark:
t We'll. I guess there is no use of mt
{ trying to speak any more"
/ The people looked toward the MAR
o | entrance of the church, and saw the
q reason why Miss Shontz stopped talk.
o ing Mrs Nation, whom most of th'
audience thought was yet il JAIL wa:
{ walking gaily up the aisle. The entir,
? audience arose, and the sacred edific'
rang with cheers.
q She was helped to the rostrum, ant
s here she bowed
S Miss ShOntZ continued her address, n