The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-15
Her final VISIT.
Mrs. Nation Closes the Sale Of
Topeka Property.
Gets 81, 200 for Holdings That
Cost Her So, 800.
NOT GOING TO STAY.
Says She Will Still Call Kansas
Home.
VIII Build Home Defenders Re-
treat in Oklahoma.

Carrie A. Nation came to town last
night, stayed long enough TO close
the deal for her property at Twelfth
and Kansas avenue, the purchase
price of $1,000 was paid to her, and
this afternoon left for Chicago to look
after her publication, The Home De-
fender, which is being issued there.
This represents but part of the
little fortune which the thrifty and
shrewd smasher has accumulated
during her meteoric career. She owns
$4,000 worth of stock in the Home
Defender. Several weeks ago she
nee, Okla.
you are rich now" was suggested
to her.
NO, no. my boy she commented
quietly, Il am just paying up my
debts, that is all
But she made money off her To-
peka holdings, which she bought two
years ago for $500. She is d good
business woman, and is now laying
her money into several acres of Okla
homa property in a town which is on
the. boom.
But she is not the Mrs. Nation of
yOre. She looks tired out, and to an
extent broken in health Her siren
uOus life has told on her physically.
Mentally she does not seem to have
lost any ability, but she is not as
aggressive as she was several years
ago. Only occasionally does she flash
up and show fire and fight, as she was
continually doing when she first came
into the limelight of public attention.
But little notice was given her as
she walked up and down Kansas ave-
nue. this morning. Several hooting
kids trotted at her heels a part of
the way. But few people recognized
her at al. She stopped at a couple of
places along the street to b6rate men
who had cigars in their mouths
Smiles on the faces of those who hap
pened to be close by was the extent
of the attention which she received.
She is revising her book, The Life and
/ Need Of Carry A. Nation, and spent
several hours with F. NJ Stoves her
publisher, this morning. The new edi-
ton viii be potpourri of pictures of
about everything that Mrs. Nation or
any Of her ancestors ever did in their
1 lifetime. Enough illustrations of graves
and tombstOnes will be in the book to
make it look like a graveyard. OF the
/ first edition of the book, almost %, 900
/ copies have been sold, and another of
] similar size will soon be put out. She
/ mas mace money out OF that little his
/ tory and biography The newsboy on
/ the train sold most of them.
SO you are going to leave Kansas.
Mrs. Nation, was asked of her.
Yes and no. she answered IT still
/ viii be a citizen of this great and gIor-
/ ious commonwealth. It is the home of
the brave and the free; it is the state
/ which has taken a stand for righteous
4 ness and eternal glory. It's only fault
/ is the fact that it has Republican voters.
4 They have stabbed the state to the
heart-every day they violate its consti-
I tuition. like Governor Hoch in some
thlngs-but-but he is a Republican.
That is enough for me SO far as he is
/ concerned.
No she continued, 7 have a mis-
sion to perform in Oklahoma It is sim
/ a territory and its constitution is still
uniformed. I want to make tbe cons+i-
tuition of Oklahoma read so that LIQUOR
| cannot be sold for anything, and espec-
1al1y Tor medicinal and mechanical -pur-