The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-10
Carrie Nations Career
With Her Hatchet
F orever Ended.
LIES IN HOSPITAL
AT LEAVEN w ORTIZ
Spirit Of Strenuous Anti-Liquor
Crusader Broken When She
Finds Her Grandson Tend
4 ing Bar in One Of Chi
Cages Most Notori-
Gus Places. #

Leavenwcrth. Kan, June s.-Carrie
Nation the Kansas saloon smasher,
died here tonight. Parests was the
cause Of death. For several months
Mrs. Nation had suffered of nervous
disorders. and on January 90 she en-
tered the ganatorium in which she
died
The rhysician at the sanatorlum in
formed Mrs. Nation several days ago
that the ond was near, She said moth :
ina. but smiled She became uncon-
scieus al noon to-day. and did no,
revive Relatives had been tele--
graphed for. but only the doctor and
nurse were al her bedside when she
died
Worry ever lawsuits. which she
brought against a lecture bureau for
failure to puy for services is said >
have caused her breakdown.
A Marked Contrast.
The last Ave months of Mrs Ma
tons life was in marked contrast to
her former activity. Once she saw
physician at the sanatorium smok-
ing a cigarette. She made no remon-
STRANGE, merely saying that she had
done what she could to eradicate the
evil"
The body will be sen, TO Kansas
City, where nephew lives. Funeral
services Will be held there probab bly,
on Sunday.
Carrie Moore Nation was horn near
Versailles. KY, sixtyfive years ago
In 1875 she was married TO a DR.. Lloyd
and lived 70. one year at Holden, Mo.
Her husband died OF delrium tremens
After ten years of widowhood she
married David Nation. and for time
lived in Warrensburg, Moo where she
was the editor of paper.
They later moved 10 Richmond, Tex,
where Nation conducted such a3strenut
Gus reform cainpal gn that ,theS, kept
the Long Starsstates ina constant tur.
moil. In the national' campaign OF
1854 the Nations Incurred the enmity
of certain class. and. one night
twenty men gave Nation severe beat
ing; They then moved 10 Medicine
Begins Her Crusade.
Mrs. Nation had long fostered the
anti-liquor sentiment, and in s0l she
began her sensational crusades OF ply
steal violence against saloons.
Mrs. Nations first demonstrating
was done in the bar OF the Carey Hotel
at Wichita. December e. 1900. She
Jdli sever udSS as
result On January 81, 1901, armed
with her favorite weapon. Ratchet
Mrs. Nation made another attack In
Wichita. This time she smashed two
During the next three months Mrs
Nation SURPRISED liquor sellers in va
rious Kansas towns. appearing unher-
aided al and leaving trail Of ruined
Few saloonlsts used violence in re1
sistinE Mrs Nation. although she was
assaulted and hurt while wrecking a
place at Enterprise, Kansas.
Aroused by the acts OF the dauntless
woman, the people OF Kansas began
TO demand that all saloons be closed.
Smashing parties were organized all
over the State. As a result OF agta-
ton. bills were passed by the Legisla-
ture Strengthening the prohibitory
law.
tanned a divorce, and is now said to
be living retired life in Iberia. O.,
Then followed many memorable trips
by the crusader in many'States of the
and in many cases following her
speeches up with practical demonstra
tion in Joint smashing She vas
arrested several times for destroying
Accumulated Fortune.
BY the sale of souvenirs, by lee
lures and other profitable exhibitions
" islTS. NHllOn is SAID TO nave
accumulated fortune of nearly $780,
0O0 $3.50 il,1 49,
Many melodramatic and farcica / in
cidcnts occurred during her tours, but
the one that first broke the wa rlike
spirit OF the turbulent crusader occur
red in one of the lowest dives In Chi
cago about midnight She had been
making the rounds OF the saloons eX-
PORTING the occupants to lead better
lives, when Young man serving
drinks to the human wrecks said 10
her: Hello, Grandma Nation The
did not recognize him, but as she was
generally addressed rs "Grandma," she
though; nothing of It, She asked the
boy if he didn't have a mother. and
IL he wasn't ashamed of the life he
vas leading. The hoy looked at her
In amaaement and said: why, lon't
you remember me? I'm Riley White.
your little grandson The woman col :
lapsed, sank to the sawdust covered
floor. sobbing Historically and paying
no attention to the girls who bent
over her. Her spirit was broken. and
since then she had mover been tho
aggressive. disturbing Carrie Nation OF
old,
on February Is, 1911. she suffered
nervous collapse in Eureka Springs.
Ark. and never recovered from Its
effects. After living with her sister
at Eureka Springs for a while, she
moved to the Evergreen Hospital,
Leayenworth. Kan.