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CARRIE NATION, TEMPERANCE LEADER, DEAD
Famous Saloon Smasher Succumbs to Paresis In Leavenworth Hospital.
HAD WORLD-WIDE FAME
Efforts Revived Dead Prohibition Law and Made Kansas a Dry State.
(BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.)
LEAVENWORTH, Kan., June 10.-Carrie Nation died in this city last night at 7:05 o'clock, paresis being the cause of death. She had been sick for some time having entered the local sanitorium last January to recover from an attack of nervous prostration.
Was Born In Kentucky
Mrs. Carrie Nation was born in Kentucky in 1846. Her maiden name was Carrie Moore. She married in her native state a man, who it is said afterwards became a drunkard, and this was the cause of her hatred against saloons. After his death she moved to Kansas and married Dave Nation, who sympathized with her temperance views.
Mrs. Nation attained fame through her saloon smashing proclivities and through this means she revived the dead prohibition of Kansas and caused it to be enforced throughout the state. Her first appearance was in Wichita where she entered a saloon December 27, 1900, and smashed all the fixtures with a hatchet. She was arrested for the act, remained in jail several days and was released on bond.
The following month she made a raid in Wichita and with her now famous hatchet wrecked two saloons. She was not arrested for this act.
STATE-WIDE SMASHER
Following this Mrs. Nation traveled throughout the state and became the terror of saloon keepers. Appearing suddenly and without warning she would enter a saloon and leave a trail of broken glasses and fixtures behind her.
She seldom met with violence in these raids but one time was badly hurt in Enterprise, Kansas.
She afterwards became a lecturer and edited a paper the Smasher's Mail. She did little raiding outside the state of Kansas, but created a sensation when she appeared at the Horse Show in New York and demanded that the Vanderbilts contribute to the home for drunkards' wives she had established in Kansas City, Kansas.
This home recently taken over by the Associated Charities of Kansas City, Mo.
The body of Mrs. Nation was taken today to Kansas City, Kan., by Mrs. M.D. Moore of that city, a sister-in-law of Mrs. Nation and Mrs. Geo. Shubert of Los Angeles, her niece. The funeral services will be held at the home of Mrs. Moore tomorrow. Carrying out the expressed desire of Mrs. Nation, interment will be in Richmond, Mo., where her parents are buried.
Mrs. A.D. McNabb, a daughter of Mrs. Carrie Nation, is a patient at the Moody sanitarium in this city. According to Dr. G.H. Moody her illness is too serious to permit of her attendance at the funeral of Mrs. Nation. Mrs. McNabb is a sufferer from mental and nervous trouble and has been a patient at the sanitarium for some months past. This morning she had not been apprised of the death of her mother.
Source: The San Antonio Light, San Antonio, Texas, Saturday, June 10, 1911
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