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Suits at Less Than Cost.
Enameled Ware.

Enameled Ware.
EVERYTHING used for the kitchen can
be found in this great sale at reduced
prices.
o9e-For I7-quart dish pan. regular value S5c.
23c-For Io-inch coander. regular value 35c.
23c-For milk or stew pans regular value $50
36c-FOr I2-quart dish pan. regular value $50
63c-For Berlin saucepan, regular value 85c
50c-FOr lip saucepan, regular value S5c.
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-12

He who hath most heart knows most
of sorrow.
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-12

A happy heart is better than a full
purse.
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-12

Electro Ch emistry cures painlessly ami
without operation Consumption, Cameo.
Catarrh. Deafness. Eheumasism, E1ssuIs.
Paralvsis Loccnotor Ataxia. Asthma
and bronchial Troubles. Piles, Nervous
Dfseaees skin and Blood Diseases and
the Special Diseases OF Men and women.
Write for home treatment II you live az
separate apartments for ladies and gentle
men
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ADVERTISEMENTS

All persons calling az
EleCtrO-Chemic Iusti-
tute will be given a
free X-Rav eNamina
ton and diagnosis. A
truthful ana sincere
opinion viii BE- given
in all cases. Durable
diseases will be given
a free treatment. No
incurable cases viii BE-
undertaken. Call a.
hare
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-10

ing fund to complete the buildings al
ready contracted for. without allowing
anything on new buildings that should
be. erected in the near future This
shows where the board has landed
itself at the present time
Capt. J. e. Peterson, of 514 Monroe
Second ward, is one of Mr.. Skaters
enthusiastic supporters. He said:
Mr. Shaffer commands the support
of the principal taxpaying interests OF
his ward in the present campaign. The
people of the Second ward are dissat-
isfied with the management of the
school affairs of Topeka, and are con-
WINGED that not the proper degree of
business judgment is being devoted to
them. For my part, am not opposed
to the most progressive policy in school
affairs that can be adopted, but / do
insist that the members of the board OF
educat ton remain within the law in
their transactions and do not compel
the city to assume obligations which
will seriously embarrass it in the fll-
ture Mr.. Shaffer is an employer Of
considerable labor in the Vinewood
stone quarries, in which he is inter-
ested. He is a taxpayer and has the
interest of the city at heart, while his
opponent is not a representative man
among the people whom he is asking to
elect him. I do not question his in
tegrity, but I do doubt his sagacfty Z
believe that most of the people of the
Second ward share my feeling, and will
manifest it on the day Of the Repub-
lican primaries
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RAPs PRESENT METHODS.
C. E. Shaffer Favors Reforms in
School Board.

c. E. Shaffer, who is a candidate for
membership on the board of educa-
interest of more businesslike manage
ment of the affairs of the city schools.
He said today:
Il am receiving many fiattering tes-
timoniais of support from the most
deeply interested taxpayers of the Sec
ond ward and I believe that the propo-
sitions on which I am making my COM
paign are going to receive the endorse
ment of the majority of the voters IN
the primary election. Mr.. Mallory, the
other candidate, has served in the
school board for several terms. He is
president of the board and has been re-
sponsible for the appointment of the
committees which have handled the
school building and equipment business
with so reckless a hand during the past
year or two.
This years building fund has al-
ready been appropriated. The contract
has been let for the Quincy school
building amounting to $44,150. We had
a bond issue of $4,000 for this build
ing. The additional expenditure is with
out authorization and is illegal. The
S44 $50 does not provide for the COM
pletion of the basement or the. equip
ment of the school rooms About $l8,-
COO has been already allowed on the
Lafayette building for the completion
of four rooms. 1t viii cost at least
So GOO to finish it. We had a bond is
sue of S12, 800 for this building.
Lewis & Kitchen of Kansas City,
were employed by the board to draw
plans for heating the old and the new
high school buildings. Such an ar
rangement is not legal. That work
ought to be done by contract as it will
cost from s25, 0e0 to $4,000 to heat the
1T viii cost $4,000 to $4,000 to put
in the plumbing and equip the manual
training school. We have an income Of
about $50 GOO per year in the building
fund; it takes about $4,000 of this to
keep up the buildings, leaving about
500. 900 rer year to be spent on new
buildings OF additions. IF the bonds
are not voted, it viii take about five
years in addition to this years build
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DIED DOCTORS OFFICE.
Sudden Death of Charles Patterson
of Salina.

Salina, Kan, March 10.-Charles Patter-
son, aged 81 years. senior partner of the
grocery firm of Patterson Wagner,
died suddenly here Wednesday in the of
fee of DIR. ]. w. Neptune, Where he had
had been in apparent good health late
and had not complained of illness until IN
town a short time he told his partner
(Mr Wagoner) that he was not feeling
well and that he would go and get some
quinine.
About three minutes previous to his
death Mr.. Patterson remarked TO the doc
tor that he was feeling better and dldn
have as much pain. DR.. Neptune stepped
into the adjoining room to attend to some
matters and again going into the room
where Patterson was, found the man
gasping for breath. He lived but short
time Death was due to an attack OF
neuralgia of the heart.
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SHAWNEE TAXES.
Basis of Assessment Much Like
Other Counties.

The basis OF valuation agreed upon by
the Shawnee county board of assessors
for 1904 varies but slightly from the
basis agreed upon by other counties.
More discretion is given the assessors
of other counties than in Shawnee as
sliding scale of valuations is made for
personal property by many of the
boards of assessors.
In Shawnee county all hogs will be
assessed at $3.50 per hundred pounds
In Rocks county common hogs are list
ed at 81 and thoroughbred hogs at S.
Jefferson county lists all hogs at 81
Smith county puts hogs at So. Gray
county places hogs at 81. Decatur
county will assess hogs at 81.
In Shawnee county corn will be listed
at 80 cents per bushel, in Decatur coun-
ty at 80 cents, Smith county Is cents,
Jefferson county 80 cents, Rocks county
So cents.
cents a bushel, in Rocks at so and so, in
Jefferson county rs, in Smith county rs
to 49, and in Decatur county 60 cents.
In most of the counties the assess
ments are written in ink but in Shaw
nee pencils will be used.
In Shawnee county the $500 exemo-
ton allowed the head of a family. is
deducted from the original assessed
valuation before that is divided. One
half the remainder is the assessed
sessed valuation is divided and then
the $500 exemption is allowed.
The question for settlement by the
assessors and the board of equalization
in Shawnee county is the assessment
of real estate damaged by the flood. 1t
is likely that the assessors will inspect
all real estate which suffered from the
food and that an entirely new value
will be placed upon it. the damage done
by the flood and the depreciation in
value resulting therefrom to be con-
sidered. The final valuations on the
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is NOT A DICTATOR.
President Annoyed by Numerous
Stories of This Nature.

Stories of This Nature.
Washington, March 10.-Presfdent
Roosevelt is having a good many po-
Htical conferences nowadays, but they
all relate to the general conduct of the
campaign and the formulation of a par
ty policy. His callers have discussed
with him the various outlines of the
platform and have talked in a general
way of the issues which probably will
have to be made during the coming
summer.
These conferences have not been at
all detailed and one thing above ill
others which has been avoided is any
suggestion on the part of the president
as to the makeup of the rest of the
ticket or as to the craftsmanship of the
ports which have been sent out from
Washington that this, that. or the
other man has been selected for chair
man have become SO common as to be
positively annoying to the president
and his closest friends Somehow the
opinion is gaining ground that small
clique of anti-Roosevelt Republicans,
chiefly the men who have been turned
down for office, and who fomented the
talk about Senator Hanna as an oppo-
sition candidate, are now seeking TO
embarrass the president by having 1t
appear he has assumed to dictate as to
the management of the party.
To several of his callers within the
last lew Gays PRESIDENT Roosevelt has
repeated his declaration that while he
is himself openly and above board a
candidate for the presidency, and while
he is gratifed at the discovery that
there practically will be no opposition
to his nomination, his efforts stop just
at that point. He has no wish to be a
political dictator, and all his acts with
in the last two years have shown that
he is at all times anenable to the adj
vice of recognized party leaders.
Il have not been nominated" said
the president in substance to one cs
his callers recently, land it would lee
|impertinent in me to assume to dictate
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DEATH CANE QUICKLY.
An Aged Woman Burning Trash
Falls Into the Flames.

Marquette, Kas., March 1o.-Grand-
ma Arm who lived near here, is dead
from heart failure caused by falling
in the Ere.
She and her aged husband have
lived for years in that part of the
country and were cleaning up the yard
about the house. They We're CARRYING
the trash to small fire in order to
burn it, and being quite feeble Mrs
Arm did not realize how close she was
getting to the flames. Her clothing
caught Ere.
Her husband was a little way off. but
ran to her assistance at once, and tried
to pull the clothing from her, but lust
as he got there she fell into the fire
presumably dead.
She had suffered considerably from
heart failure. and it is thought she
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-10
CARPETS

Cotton Carpets-come a yard
wide and are an excellent floor
covering at the prices yard,
25c, 3oc, $50.
Cotton Chain Carpets, Wool
FiIling-makes a good wearing
carpet-large line of beautiful
patterns to select from = the
yard, 4oc, IS, soc. $50.
AlI-Wool Carpets standard
makes only; an attractive line of
small dainty figures for bedroom
and hall, and floral and conven-
tional designs for living room
the yard, 55c, size, 6oc, csc,
7oC. z5C.
Brussels Carpets - with or
without borders; halls and stairs
to match in all the grades-pat-
terms this spring are especially
attractive. We recommend these
for their good wearing qualities
the yard, 55c, csc, z5c, 85c,
ooC, $I.oo.
Body Brussels Carpets
strictly standard makes, greatest
range of patterns we have ever
shown. Carpet buyers are well
acquainted with these qualities
of floor coverings = the yard,
SI.Io, SI.I5, $I.25, $I.35.
Velvet Carpets-our assert
ment of this popular carpet is
the largest and best we have
ever offered prices very con-
servative-the yard, ooc, SI.oo,
SI.IO, SI.I5. SI.25, SI.5o.
Wilton Velvet Carpets-the
carpet that always wears salts
factorily-fine showing at, the
yard, $3.50, So, S2.25, So.
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Notes and Personal Mention.

Miss Nellie Baker was brought home
Wednesday from Kansas City, where
she had been visiting for week, sur
fering from a serious injury to her
ankle, three ligaments of which were
broken from fall downstairs Tuesday
evening at the home of Mrs. A. H.
Connolly, where she was being enter
tanned. Her aunt, Mrs. H. w. Sharpe,
accompanied her home.
Justice and Mrs. Henry f. Mason
have returned from a visit to Garden
CITY.
Miss Edith Foristall, of Chicago. will
visit Miss Grace Mason WEIGH within
q few weeks.
Mrs. Alfred A. Scott left Wednesday
for Omaha to visit her relatives. Miss
Mildred Scott accompanied her as far
as Kansas City, where they spent the
da.r-
Mrs. Samuel Larimer will go to IRON
ton, Ohio, next week to visit her sister
Mr.. Jack Dillon left Wednesday for
Athol. Mass, for short visit
Mrs Luther Burns is in Kansas City
for q few days.
DIR. J. D Countermine went to Chi
cago today.
Mr.. Bennett r. Wheeler returned to-
day from a business trip to Chicago.
Miss Harriet Broad. who has been
in town for several days, returned to
Chicago today.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred H Morgan, for
merly of 1924 Taylor street, but now of
22T Monroe street, announce the en-
gagement of their eldest daughter, Miss
Harriet Elizabeth, to Mr.. Earl Clifford
Slaybaugh. The wedding will take
place some time in the near future.
Teachers of the Flynn School of
Physical Education, of Chicago, are in
the city to introduce the Flynn Vital
Center system of physical culture.
This system is without apparatus. and
is arranged for the use of busy people
to keep them thoroughly well. Mrs
Martin, the director, gives illustrated
lectures after which classes are formed.
The system has the highest recommen-
datiOns.
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property viii be made by the board of

property will be made by the board of
equalization.
Each year. for several years, the as
sessed valuation in Shawnee county
has been increased and the commits
sioners expect that this year, despite
the damage done by the flood to farm
the city property, that the total assess
ed valuation will be larger than last
year.
The increase in the assessed valua-
ton is expected to come from an in
creased valuation on some large BUSH
ness enterprises and from a more care
full listing of the personal property and
an assessed valuation nearer the true
value.
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A California Farm for You.

Are YOU satisfied at home? Or do you
wish to better yourself? You should in
yestigate what the San Joaquin valley
of California has to offer hustlers- In
that great valley is grown nine-tenths
of the Z s. raisin crop and millions of
gallons of wine are made yearly. You
can profitably raise almost everything
there. Good farms at cheap prices. Low
rate colonist excursions in March and
April on the Santa Fe- Write for
pamphlets to T. L. KING, A., T. & S.
F. Ry., Topeka, Kansas.
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to or control the Republican national
committee, which has not even been
appointed. That committee is always
supreme in the management of the par
ty campaign. 1t can choose whom 1t
pleases for its chairman He may be
member of the committee or not as is
deemed best. 1t has been customary to
defer largely to the wishes of the can
didate for the presidency in the selec-
ton of the chairman. That is but nat
ural, but the committee, none the less,
is master of the situation, and 1t
chooses its own chairman at all times
Il should not assume to make choice
so far in advance of the meeting of the
convention. I have not been nominated
and I have no right to assume that l
will be nominated. Many things may
happen between now and the meeting or
the convention in Chicago next June.
Until then, therefore, I shall not offer
the craftsmanship to any one, because
it is not mine to offer and because the
time has not arrived for considering
such a question. I have been glad to
talk with public men about the current
policy of the party, about the prospects
of the campaign, and about the sltua-
ton in different states, but I have not
attended to dictate the personnel of
the party management either in the
national committee or in any of the
sta tes.''
It must not be understood that this is
literal quotation from President
RooSevelt'S remarks. Quite the con-
trary. 1t merely expresses the opinion,
as gathered by different public men,
that the stories as to the appointment
by him of q national chairman at this
stage of the proceedings have become
exceedingly annoying to the president
himself Many of these stories are abb
solutely grotesque, inasmuch as they
suggest persons who never have been
members of the national committee
who have had no experience in the man
agement of a national campaign, who
frequently have nothing but a local
reputation, and in some cases who are
men with personal characteristics suffi-
Gent to unfit them for any office of
trust and profit.
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Low Rates to the Southwest via
Frisco System.

On March Is the Frisco sys-
tenn will sell one way tickets to all
points in Oklahoma and Indian Terri
tc.s- at rate of $3.50. On same dates
will sell one way tickets at rate of
$500 and round trip tickets at
Ike of $500, to all points
in Texas east of and including
Amarillo. Quanah. Vernon, TT. Worth,
Brownwood. Brady. San Angelo, Waco,
San Antonio Houston, Galveston,
Corpus Christi and Rockfort Call on
your nearest ticket agent for detailed
information, or write
j. C. LOyRIEN.
Asst. Gen'1 Pass'r Agent,
Kansas City, Mo.
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Nottingham Curtains = the
pair, soc, 75c to $500.
Cable Net Curtains = white
and Arabian - the pair, SAYS,
$500 to 5000.
RuffIed Muslin Curtains -
q yards long-the pair, 35c. soc
to $2.75.
SPECIAL. Ruffled Muslin
Curtains -tucks = styles-2a
yards long the pair, soc.
Ruffied Net Curtains = the
pair, $I.25, ST.. so to SIS. SO.
SPECIAL. Ruffled Net Cur
tains = with Battenberg inser-
ton and edge = q yards long
the pair, $I.25.
Cluny Lace Curtains = the
pair, S2.75 to $S.5
Antique Curtains-the pair,
$3.50, $500 to $3.50.
White Irish Point Curtains,
the pair, 1915, $500 to SIS. so.
CoIored Irish Point Curtains,
the pair, $500, $3.50 to $3.50.
Beige Point Curtains = the
pair, $500. $3.50 to S14.OO.
Corded Arabian Curtains -
the pair, 1915, $500 to $I2. 30.
Reversible Arabian Cur
tains-the pair, $3.50 to $3.50.
Brussels Curtains-the pair,
$3.50, $500 to $500.
Madras Curtains-the pair,
$3.S5 to $3.50.
Crete Curtains = the pair,
$o.z5 to $II.oo.
Snowflake and Cross Stripe
Curtains-the pair, $I.25, 81. SO
to SIS. so.
Tapestry Portieres-all styles
and colorings, $2.z5, $3.25 to
$3.50.
Tapestry Couch Covers =
Each, $3.50 to $3.50.
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RUGS

Rugs-of the smaller sizes are
shown in Brussels, Administer,
Smyrna and Wilton = all sizes,
from 18x36 inches to 4x7 feet.
Rugs : of the larger sizes
room sizes Il splendid showing
of these in all sizes, from 6x9 to
12x15 feet.
Pro-Brussels Rugs-This rug
we guarantee-sizes range from
9x9 to 104x134 feet-price range,
5000 to 5000.
Tapestry Brussels Rugs
Excellent showing of designs
suitable for Dining room and Ii
brary, in oriental effects and rich
floral designs for Parlors and
Bed-rooms-sizes 9x105 and 9x12
feet-price range, $1,000 to SIS.
Administer Rugs = The rug
that is the most popular of all
rugs shown = sizes as desired
price range, $4,000 to $3.50.
Body Brussels Rugs-rich,
elegant designs and colorings-
full range of sizes-price range,
S22 to SIS.
Wilton Rugs another rug
that wears well-special in this,
a 9x12 feet, S35-w worth more.
Other Rugs in this line at,
each, $50 to $50.
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Drapery Materials

(BY THE YARD
SiIkoIine-Figured, the yard,
lOc, 123c, 15c.
DENNIS - Figured, the yard.
1890, 15c to Soc.
Cretonnes-Figured, the yard,
1880, 15c to 25c.
Upholstery Dimity-Figured
the yard, 25c.
Art Ticking = Figured, the
yard, Csc.
Linen Taffeta Figured, the
yard, soc.
hungarian Cloth = double
faced, the yard, 25c.
Burlaps plain and figured
the yard, 1Sc to 25c.
Madras Drapery-choice line
of patterns in white, cream and
other colors = the yard, 25C to
$I.25.
Brass Extension Rods 81
inch extension-each 1Oc.
White Cottage Rods-4 feet
long-each 1Oc.
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must have died before she fell into the |
fire, for the flames had not mounted |
high enough at the time to have suffo- |
Gated her.
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IHE MILL6Co
SPRING SHOWING OF new
CARPETS, MATING and CURTAINS

The refurnshng of the house the Spring calls many
things this line the foor-covering shows
much wear and needs be replaced with the curtains and
of the Winter kind should
light dainty kinds with the breath of Spring them In fact
you look around you VIII 1nd many that needs De changed
Find needs, make
before the ruhwen them
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Hives are a terrible torment to the
little folks. and to some older ones.
Easily cured. Doan's Ointment never
fails. Instant relief. permanent cure.
At any drug store. so cents.
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Administer Carpets-always
popular for the parlor carpet
ever excellent to wear = more
beautiful than formerly in de-
sign and coloring-the yard, ST.,
Sill 10, $I.I5, $I.25. ST.. IS, $3.50,
SI.z5.
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Special

White Curtain Swiss
So o INCHES IS. wide &c yd.
Curtain Swiss White, 4O-in.
wide-the yard, Zoe.
Curtain White, choice
line of patterns in dotted, figured
and striped-the yard, 1890, l5c
to soc.
Curtain Swiss-Colored, fast
colors, yard wide-yard, l24c.
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MATTINGS

Our Importation this season was
over twice the amount of previous sea-
sons, and Notwithstanding that prices
on this class of goods have steadily
advanced owing to the Russo Japan
war, our prices will be no more than
last year and in some cases lower. See
our assortment-get our prices on this
most popular Summer floor covering.
SDecial-- SO rolls China Mat
ting jointless
can be used on both sides 40
yards to roll-Special &c TX
price, the roll .......OOsk -
2oc the yard to cut.
Straw Mating from China
and Japan "a very extensive
showing, including the embroid-
cred kind
The yard. ......15c to $50
Crex Grass Carpet-A species
of matting-is excellent for wear
all colors-
The yard .4Oc 400 SOC
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Our line of this class of goods complete and range
styles extensive that descriptive article be written that
will give idea of what dainty beautiful Curtains and Drapee
carry personal call and inspection necessary Will you
favor with that when your wants need to be supplied
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AND RUGS.

The goods showing in this line very
quality and at low pcngs this quality of goods be
retaled Treasure up those words very best quayit will
the keynote to the merit at all quality stand
ard and to the extraordinary economy feature making your
chases o
Prompt service guaranteed and work will be
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-10

Rope Portieres Elegant line
Of new designs-the pair, 1925,
1915 to $40.
Lace Bed Sets-A fine show
ing-the set, 81, $3.50 to $3.50.