The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1911-06-16
CARRIE NATION DIES
DEATH ENDS CAREER OF NOTED
WOMAN WREckER or
SALOONS.
MIND A BLANK FOR MONTHS
Prohibition Worker, suecumbs TO
Psresis In Sanltarium at Leaven-
worth, kan.-onIy Physician and

RE +. Nation, sixty-six years old, VINO
gained celebrity by her use OF a
Ratchet In the cause OF prohibition.
died here last night OF p%aresis in the
Evergreen sanitarium. She was ad-
mitted L the sanitarium January %
suffering from nervous breakdown.
Although 1t has been reported sew
eral times since she came here that
she was dead, her death was not ex-
pected until several days ago.
Spends Months in Seclusion.
Mrs. Nation in the sanitarium was
incapable OF ven managing her W
business affairs, all trace of the bold
prohibition worker had disappeared
when her iron constitution began to
fail. and she spent the last five months
Of her life in seclusion. no one but
relatives and hospital attendants be-
ing allowed to see her.
When told several days ago hat
she would die, Mrs. Nation made no
comment. Only DR.. A. l.. Suwalksy
and a nurse were with her when death
came.
Was Born In Kentucky.
Mrs. Nation was born in kentucky
in 1876. Her maiden name was Carr
Moore, and as a girl. 1t is said, she
was absolutely fearless. In her early
life she married a man addicted to the
use OF ~intoxicants, which created in
her an intense aversion to the saloon.
When he died she determined TO de-
vote her life TO the suppression Of the
liquor traffic.
Later she moved to Kansas and
married David Nation. who sympa-
thized With her temperance principles.
Mrs. Nations first saloon smashing
was lone in the barroom Of the Carey
hotel at Wichita December 81, 1900.
She was arrested and remained in Jail
several days before she was released
on bond.
On January 81. 1901, armed with her
favorite weapon, a hatchet, Mrs. Ma
ton made another raid in Wichita.
This time she smashed two saloons.
During the next two months Mrs.
Nation surprised the liquor traffickers
in various Kansas towns, appearing
unheralded and leaving a trail Of
ruined barroom fixtures wherever she
went. Many saloonists became err
ror-stricken when the militant EN-
perance advocate appeared in their
n~eighborhood and locked their places
and fed before the faithful Ratchet
could get into action.
Hurt in Wreeking Saloon.
Remarkably few of the saloon men
used violence in resisting Mrs. Ma
ton. although she was assaulted and
badly hurt while wrecking a saloon at
Enterprise, Kan.
BY this time the state of Kansas
was in a ferment.
Aroused by the spirit of the daunt-
less oma from Kentucky, the peo-
pie began to demand that all the sa-
looms and joints be closed at once
Smashing parties we're organized all
owe the state. The saloon power was
being wrecked. AS a result of the
agitation bills were passed by the
legislature which strengthened the
state prohibitory law.
Thus. erratic as her life has been,
Nib ANdAA0n a ltoHOiolDlt lOA nv
greatest temperance awakening in
Kansas.
Demands Money From vanderbilts.
Mrs. Nation, after her activities in
Kansas. became a lecturer and the
editor of a paper called the Smash
ers' Mail. She did little smashing
outside OF Kansas.
While lecturing in New York city
she created a sensation by appearing
at the horse show in Madison Square
garden and demanding that the occu-
pants OF the Vanderbilt box contribute
none for a home for d~runkards'
wives, which she founded in Kansas
City. Kan.
The home recently was taken over
by the Associated Charities.
i0KE nm H0lISE DEMOCRATS