The San Francisco call., 1904-10-09

Tuesday morning, in order to fulfill en-
gagements to meet his colleague, Sen
ator Perkins, and other leaders of the
Republican party. Senator Bard, in
his candidacy for reelection to the
Senate, is receiving many assurances
of support.
The Prohibition singers of Riverside
have opened the campaign on behalf
of the State ticket of their party. They
will sing at Napa, Woodland Vallejo,
San Francisco, Stockton, San Jose and
other places.
The Prohibitionists assert that they
have eighty-three alliances in the
State, many of them carrying on ag-
sressive local agitation The largest
one, with a membership of 220 is To-
Gated at Napa.
The statement given out by papers
supporting Theodore Bell that the clos
ing of the canteen at the Veterans
Home was followed by diminished
death rate is incorrect. The death
rate has not increased or diminished
since Bell abolished the canteen. The
barrooms at Yountville are open and
there veterans go who feel that they
must have whisky. The Bell amend
ment simply forces the regular drinker
to walk a mile for his grog.
RAMBO THE NOMINEE.
The three-sided fight in the Twenty
ninth Senatorial District has been def
nitely settled by the Republican State
Central Committee, and S. H. Rambo
has been declared the legal Republican
nominee for the Senate. The announce
.ment that Rambo had been recognized
as the legal nominee was contained in
an answer of the Republican Central
Committee to H. Miller County Clerk
of Santa Cruz County, who requested
information pending preparation of the
ballots.
In answer to the communication the
Republican Central Committee said the
executive committee of the governing
body of the Republican party in the
State had determined that the Joint
Senatorial convention of the Twenty
ninth Senatorial District, which met in
Redwood City, San Mateo County, on
September 26, and of which W. j. Mar
tin was chairman and w. r. Porter
secretary, was the convention recog-
nized by the central committee as the
legal one and S. H. Rambo the legal
nominee. AS the difficulty has now
been settled all Republicans will lend
their aid to elect the candidate.
The California Academy of Sciences
has issued a circular calling for the
support on the part of the people of the
proposed amendment to article TX of
the State constitution, to exempt from
taxation the property of the academy
in this city. In the circular the acad-
emy sets forth first it's purposes, and
then states that its property consists
chiefly of a building fronting on Mar
ket street, the income of the front
building supporting that in the rear, in
which the academy's exhibits are in
stalled and that without this income
the work of the academy could not be
carried on. Continuing the circular
says:
THE academy pays over $1,000 a year
for taxes. OF this amount less than
one-third goes to the State at large, the
rest to the city and county of San
Francisco. This tax impoverishes the
academy. the balance of it's income be-
ing insufficient to do it's work Similar
institutions in other States, such as the
Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila-
delphia and the Boston Society of Nat
ural History, are exempt from taxation
1t should be exempt from taxation be-
cause the whole of the academy's in