The Saint Paul globe., 1901-01-27
ON THE KIOWA.

After her work Of reformation was
completed in Medicine Lodge Mrs Nation
rested a While and then decided that
kiowa would be a good field of useful
ness for her. In kioWa she pursued the
same course as in Medicine Lodge Her
name inspired terror among the saloon
Keepers of kiowa, and in a short time
the place was practically free from rum
shops. All visible signs of saloons evap-
grated soon after her arrival. For a time
Mrs. Nation did not smash any saloons
but contented herself with temperance
work with the Womens Christian Tenn
perance union. She still was active in
procuring evidence against those who
sold liquor illegally, and in many other
ways made it so that the liquor sellers
of Kansas were kept alive to the fact
that she had not abandoned the war
path
Recently she decided that drastic
measures were necessary in Wichita
The town is the home of Gov Stanley,
who was elected on platform with a
prohibition plank. But the saloons have
been running openly, the proprietors SIM
ply being arrested once a month as a
matter of form and paying a small fine
SWEETEST PLACE IN WICHITA.
Mrs. Nation went around to the saloons
one day and told them to close up. The
proprietoFs and bartenders laughed at
her, as usual. They had forgotten the
experiences of Medicine Lodge and Kio-
wa. They remembered them afterwards,
to their sorrow. The SWEETEST drinking
place in Wichita was the bar of the Ca
rey house. and that place was selected
by Mrs. Nation as her first point of at
tack. On the evening of the day in
which she had given her warning she
suddenly entered the saloon with a
brown paper bundle in her arms This
was her ammunition box and from It
she drew the paving stones with VIII ch
she opened a hot fire on the saloon. The
bartender lodged down behind the bar,
the customers rushed for safety out of
the doors, and Mrs. Nation blazed away
until two policemen captured her and led
her to the Jail By the time the police
men appeared on the scene, however, Mrs
Nation had expressed her ideas concern
ing the temperance question by smashing
property to the value of $1,000. The sa-
loon looked as If a free fight had been
in progress there. Mirrors were smash
ed. and broken bottles lay all about
from which wines and WHISTLES spread
out in a lake over the floor. A valuable
picture, representing that highly inl-
proper person Cleopatra taking a bath,
was the especial object of the wrath
and missiles of Mrs. Nation, and Mark
Anthony would never have known his
'tootsy wootsey' after Mrs. Nation got
through with her. The frightened bar.
tender reappeared from under the bar
when the police had safely secured the
invader, and, standing In the middle of
the wreck. charged her with malicious
mischief in destroying property.
When they got Mrs. Nation to the Jail
they were in as big quandary as ever
what to do with her. If the charges
against here were rressed there was ev-
cry probability that she and her friends
would have the proprietor OIL the Carey
house arrested fer Illegal liquor selling.
and if they let her go she de .lared that
she would smash every other salooa in
Wichita. 2Irs. Nation declared that she
would moi accept her liberty on bail, but
would be brought out on a writ of hab-
cas- corpus.
From all over the country mail5ags
full of letters came to her approving
her course and the members of the
Women's Christian Temperance Union
of Wichita went to the jail and held