This weekend marks 120 years since the infamous temperance advocate Carrie Nation was in a Wichita courtroom for her preliminary trial.
On October 6, 1904, Nation was in city court in Wichita; she was fined $150 and given a jail sentence of a month in jail.
She was charged with leading an attack on the Mahan Brothers Supply company not far from Douglas & Rock Island, breaking out three windows with a rock and an axe. Among other things, Mahan Brothers sold wholesale and retail liquor.
This most recent incidence of violence occurred nearly four years after her notorious hatchet-smashing of the bar at the Carey Hotel in downtown Wichita at Douglas & St. Francis; that was two days after Christmas in 1900.