Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1911 — Carrie Nation Dead in Hospital at Leavenworth, Kans. [ARTICLE]

Carrie Nation Dead in Hospital at Leavenworth, Kans.

Carrie Nation, the Kansas saloon smasher, Is dead. She has been in poor health for several months and since Jan. 22nd has been in a sanitarium at Leavenworth, Kans., where death overtook her Friday. Mrs. Nation was engaged as one of the speakers at the meeting at Fountain Park Assembly to be held August 12th to 27th. Mrs. Nation was born in Kentucky in 1846. Her maiden name was Carrie Moore and as a girl is said to hove been absolutely fearless. In early life she married a man who was adicted to the liquor habit and this created an aversion to the habit in her. When he died she determined to devote her life to the suppression of the liquor traffic. Later she moved to Kansas and married David Nation, who sympathized with her temperance principles. Her first saloon smashing was done in the barroom of the Carey hotel at Wichita, Dec. 27, 1900. She was arrested and remained in jail for several days before she was released on bond. On Jan. 21,1911, armed .with a hatchet Mrs. Nation smashed two more joints in Wichita. During the next few months she visited a number of towns and cities in Kansas and smashed barrooms in many places. Her fearlessness awakened tbe temperance people of Kansas who demanded that tbe joints in Kansas be closed. Mrs. Nation then turned lecturer and the editor of a paper termed tbe Smasher’s Mail. Although very eratic her work was responsible for an awakening in Kansas that accomplished much good. While lecturing in New York City she created a sensation by appearing at the horse show in Madison Square garden and demanding the the occupants of the Vanderbilt box contribute money for the home for drunkards’ wives which she founded in Kansis City, Kans.