Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-06-13
CARRIE NATION.
F9EOf SALOON.
DEATH VICTIM
Woman Who Attracted Ma
tional Notice by Smashing
Kansas Liquor Houses,
Succumbs.

Leavenworth, Kan, June TO-
The body Of Mrs. Carrie Nation,
the Kansas anti-saIoon worker,
who died here last night, will
be taken today to Kansas City,
Kan, by Mrs. M. D, Moore, Of
that city, sister-in-law Of Mrs.
Nation, and Mrs, George Schubert
of Los Angeles, her niece. The
funeral services will be at the
home Of Mrs. George Moore to.
morrow. Carrying out the ex-
pressed desire Of Mrs. Nation,
the burial Will be In Richmond,
Mo-, where her parents are buried.
Leavenworth, Kan, June 10.-Carrie
E. Nation, sc years old, who gained
celebrity by her use of Ratchet In
the cause of prohibition, died here at
Z o'clock last night in the Evergreen
sanitarium Paresis was the cause of
death She was admitted to the sani-
tarium January %, suffering from
nervous breakdown.
Was Born In Kentucky.
Mrs. Nation was born in Kentucky
in 1916. Her maiden name was Carrie
Moore, and as girl, it is said, she
was absolutely fearless. In her early
life she married man addicted to
the use Of intoxicants, which created
in her an intense aversion to the sa-
loon. When he died she determined to
devote her life to the suppression OF
the liquor traffic.
Later she moved to Kansas and mar
ried David Nation, who sympathised
with her temperance principles.
Mrs. Nations first saloon smashing
was done in the barroom of the Carey
hotel at Wichita, December ~, 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 Ratchet, Mrs.
Nation 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 un-
heralded and leaving trail of ruined
barroom fixtures wherever she went.
many saloonists became terror stricken
when the militant temperance advo-
cate appeared in their neighborhood
and locked their places and fled before
the faithful Ratchet could get into &C
ton.
Hurt In WreckIng Saloon.
Remarkably few of the saloon men
used violence in resisting Mrs. Nation
she was assaulted and badly
hurt while wrecking a saloon at Enter
prise, Kansas.
BY this time the state of Kansas was
in a ferment.
Aroused by the spirit OF the daunt-
less woman from Kentucky, the people
began to demand that all the saloons
and joints be closed at once. Smashing
parties were organized all over the
state The saloon power was being
wrecked. AS result OF the agitation
bills were passed by the legislature
which strengthened the state prohibit
tory law.
Thus, cratic as her life has been,
Mrs. Nation was responsible for the
greatest temperance awakening In
Kansas.
Demands Money From vanderbiIts.
Mrs. Nation, after her activities in
became lecturer and the
editor Of a paper called the Smashers'
Mail. She did little smashing outside
If 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
for home for drunkards'
wives, which she founded in Kansas
City, Kan.
The home recently was taken over
by the Associated Charities.