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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-06

The much mooted Mars is a seduc.
tive flame in which many astronomer
moths have scorched their wings dur
ing the past decade.
During the weeks now to come we
will hear moro and read more concern
ing this interesting planet than ever be
fore. which is saying much; and this un-
Drecedented interest will be due TO the
fnct that during the present summer
Mars will come nearer 10 earth than it
has ventured since man commenced tc
discuss its oceans, 'caseS and
''canals. IT will approach within
about 36000,000 miles Of the earth S
orbit, or nearly 100000 nearer than
it was two years ago, when its then
close proximity caused considerable
popular excitement.
That the Martians will introduce
themselves TO us, earthllngs during this
near approach. or that their tremen-
dous engineering enterprises will at
least be positively revealed to our tele-
scopes and astronomic cameras is al
legged to be hoped by some astronomers
of once high repute. These believers
in Martians with engineering genius
will be up for trial during the next few
months.
Cau they make goods Can they prove
their case? At every other trial they
have had hitherto the verdict Of their
peers mas DteU against IDcH- pUI lot
their gathering the necessary evidence
conditions will be more favorable this
year than ever before since the discus
sion of the subject commenced. And
if they fail again this year they will
not have another in any wise equal op-
portunity for fifteen years 10 come.
Canals Translator's Error.
All Of this palaver about the Martians
and their canals was unwittinglv started
generation ago by Schiaparelli. dl"
rector of the Milan observatory in
Italy. In 1877. when Mars made one
of its near approaches to the earth, this
astronomer discovered certain hitherto
unseen bands connecting dark portions
of Mars. which some astronomers had
come TO call ''occans. Had chance
created SrhiaparelIi anything else than
an Italian we probably would have
never though of the "canals' of Mars.
Tn naming these bands this astronomer
chanccd 10 Use the word ''canalcs, y
which in Italian means channels. ~ As
il was. the news was flashed through
the speaking world that can"
ais had been discovered on Mars.
What had creased the ways upon
which this theory was so easily launched
was stroke Of guess work, made by
no less an authority than Sir John
his fellows astray by calling the darker
parts Of Mars's surface "watcr' and
brighter parts Gland Later research
however, convinced the more conserva-
tive astronomers that there was little or
no water on Mars and that what might
be there was frozen tight. Perplexity
over the probable function of the
"cauals was added by the further dis
covery that they crossed the so-ealled
a n6
Enter Prof. Lowell.
Theories were all criss-cross until
some fifteen years ago, when our as
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-06

CATION of the subject that she could
do her own marketing TO better ad-
vantage than through the statesmen of
the association She says that the
commission and other association
charges during the past season amount
ed to 10 cents crate Of fifty pounds.
Her expenses from this one item alono
ran up to more than $4,000.
'It is my present intention to
market my crop myself next year. she
said. 81 will 60 TO New York and
q woman or two to act as my selling
agents in Boston, Philadelphia and
perhaps other eastern cities. | will
have my crop shipped direct to me in
New York and these shipments will he
made according to existing market con
ditions. ] will 10 my own selling. and
by being on the ground in person |
believe / will be better able to OBJ
tain the top prices, From New York
other cities Of that territory, where
the demand for onions is the best and
the conditions for obtaining good prices
are the most favorable. The harvest
ing and shipping will be done under the
direction of some one who is capable
and trustworthy. BY handling my own
product III the markets | believe ! can
not only save the commissions that
now 90 10 the association, but l Will
obtain better prices.
Mrs Dodd is busy woman during
the onion growing season. The plant
ing of the seed in open beds takes place
in October. The transplanting is done
about six weeks later, and from then
on until tho opening Of the harvesting
season in the later part OF March IN
tense cultivation must be carried on
and the water placed upon the farm ut
certain intervals
At certain periods OF the season, Mrs.
Dodd has two or three hundred McXi-
can laborers in her employ.
''I have never had any difficulty
with my lahorers,' Mrs. Dodd said.
81 treat them fairly md they appre-
catc what ! do for them. / have built
homes for them upon one corner of
my farm and they live there with their
families in peace and contentment. j
find that by providing them with their
own homes ] am able to have them
on hand Whenever | want them. The
men, women and children work in the
field This class of farm work is not
hard and IT is really enjoyed by most
of the MeYicans,
Mrs. Dodd spends most of each day
upon her farm. She is an early riser
from her home in town to the country
in the carly morning, when the air is
cool and refreshing and nature is at
it's best upon the Rio Graude border
She rides from place to place upon the
farm, inspecting the work that is be
ing done and directing the laborers in
the cultivation or harvesting OF the
crop as the case may be, She keeps
an accurate account OF all expenditures
and receipts and knows at all times the
financial condition Of her business. She
has the confidence and respect of the
bankers and business men Of this part
Of Texas
The fact that she makes an annual
profit off of her farm much larger thnn
the salary Of most bank presidents has
not caused Mrs. Dodd to adopt any ex-
travagances Of living. She has pretty
home in town. 1T is comfortably but
not luxuriously furnished. She finds
time outside Of her farm work TO get
much enjoyment out of social inter
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-06

grain, feed and variety Of products,
Besides furnishing water for this 200
acres Of her own, her electric pumping
plant and system Of irrigation provided
water for 90 additional acres which are
owned by other parties, good revenue
being received for this extra service. 1t
is stated by Mrs. Dodd that fully 400
acres Of her farm can be irrigated from
the pumping plant which she has in
stalled, an extension Of the bitches be-
ing all that is necessary in order to
do this.
Mrs. Dodd has set good example
for progrcssiveness and enterprise to
many OF the men who are engaged In
growing Bermuda onions. She has
adopted new ideas which have proved
highly successful in the conduct Of the
industry. In 1908 she lost the biggest
part of her onion crop on account of
heavy rains that came just at the time
when the product wns ready for har-
yesting. The yield was large, but she
had not provided the farm with stor.
age sheds and tho onions had To re-
main in the field while the rains were
in progress, This softened the onions
and they were untitled for the market.
Notwithstanding her large acrcnge she
came through the trying experience
with 81 loss Of only $1,000 on her entire
crop Some of her ncighbors who had
small acreages Of onions lost many
thousands Of dollars, In order to pre-
vent repetition of the experience of
last year, Mrs. Dodd erected large sheds
in which the onions may be stored while
they dry, should rains come dnring the
harvesting period. She also stores the
crop if market conditions arc not satis-
factory.
Mrs. Dodd has been doing the mar.
keting Of her crops through an asso-
citation Of the growers. but she is not
altogether satisfied with this plan. II
is her opinion after lhorongh invcsti.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-06

LAREDO, Texas, June 5.-Mrs. Ed
warts c. Dodd of Laredo is entitled to
great distinction rs farmer. She
has made profit this season Of lit
tie more than 100000 off of l35 acres
of land Bermuda onions were her sole
crop. She is the largest woman Ber-
muda onion farmer in the world. She
is known among her friends here as the
ionion Queen Mrs Dodd does not
mind the jokes of her friends so long
as she is successful in growing Ber-
muda onions, Her crop this year was
not extraordinary, Most of the other
onion growers in the Laredo section did
as WELL but none of them had in as
much acreage individually as she had.
. This fact brought her profits up to a
figure that is astonishing to the or
dinary farmer who is content with a
profit of SIS TO $50 per acre upon his
land The average net yield which
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-06

| tronomer, Percival Lowell. after run
ming his eye over the length and
breadth OF the land in search of good
/ seeing,' selected a place in Arizona,
a mile and half above sea level. and
here erected apparatus, with which he
proceeded to snatch the Martians' Sc
! crets from the skies. At any rate, he
! has seen things on Mars that few other
astronomers have seen or have thought
| they have seen. all of which is alleged
to be due to the fact that the altitude
and peculiar quality of the air above
his observatory render his twenty-four-
/ inch telescope the most powerful IN
/ strument in existence, although 1t is
not so large as several others in this
| country.
Counts 400 Canals to Date.
! By now a network of some 400 Mar.
tian canals. meeting and crossing at
various angles. has been drawn and
catalogued by Prof. Lowell, and they
average 1900 miles in length, which
means total length of 100000 miles
of such works. And since nothing mar
rover than fifteen miles can be seen
on Mars by our most powerful tele-
scopes, thc cnormi,y of these works can
hardly be imagined. He believes that
each canal represents not a single
waterway. but Il stretch of dark col
ored vegetation. caused by collec
tion of irrigation canals. and that the
! whole network is n vast system con"
structed for the purpose of husband
/ ing a scantv water supply. Almost
all are perfectly straight, ms If drawn
by a ruler. and some single stretches
| he estimates to be as long as from
| New York TO San Francisco Some
| times they arc seen double, in twin
lines, like the parallel rails OF a rail
way track, One typical double canal
is 225C miles long and its two liues
are $50 miles apart, About $50 dark
| spots which Prof Lowell sees at the
points where these canals cross he
calls "oascs -
Took 1000 Photos in '07.
To clinch all of tins with photo,
| graphic evidence, Prof. Lowell during
Mars near approach in 1907 sent Prof
| David Todd. of Amherst college down
into the Andes mountains, where the
atmosphere offered greater penetration
even than at the Lowell observatory.
Prof. Todd took with him an eighteen
inch telescope, to which he attached a
| special 'planetary camera, and with
this apparatus he made some 1000 mega
tivcs Of Mars, Prof. Todd is the man
who is alleged TO be going up in a bal
loon 10 make tests for possible signals
from the Martlans.
Mars, image on these negatives is
some ree-siXteenths Of an inch in
diameter-about the size of the head
of carpet tack. Yet Prof. Todd and
Prof. Lowell claim 10 sec "canalsn in
them. especially when they are enlarged
some three to four diameters. In snch
prints from these negatives as have
been thus far published no astronomers
outside the Lowell-Todd camps have
been able to see anything Suggesting
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-06

Mrs, Dodd obtained upon her 135 acres
was about $400 per acre. The gross
net revenue from the farm was about
S625 per acre. Growing onions is ex-
penslve and II cost an average of about
1925 per acre to plant. cultivate, harry
est and market the crop.
Mrs. Dodd is not 'book farmer -
She directs the multitudinous affairs
of her place in person. She has capable
men who look after the details and
every part of the business receives her
closest supervision, Her farm embraces
600 acres, but of this she has as vet
only. 200 cares under irrigation. She
has increased the acreage under cult
walton gradually each year as her rove
nues would permit 1t is learned that
much more than 200 acres of the tract
shall be placed under irrigation by the
time of next season s onion planting.
Mrs. Dodd found herself thrown upon
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-06
BERMUDA ONIONS ARE PROFITABLE CROP

mingling with her friends. She has
been a social favorite in Laredo, San
Antonio and other Texan cities for
many years. The onion growing season
is during the winter and cooler periods
of the fall and spring, She has the
hot months of summer TO spend in rest
and recuperation.
Before her marriage to the late Cnp-
tain Dodd she was a school teacher.
She has found that her training in the
schooIroom is of much benefit to her
in directing the work upon the farm.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-06

She makes it a point to investigate
thoroughly every phase Of the bust
ness and to adopt the most improved
methods in cultivating and handling
the crop, She knows the analysis of
the soil on different parts of her farm;
she has experimental with many other
kinds of products besides onions and
knows just what can be grown sue
ccssfully upon the farm, and she knows
approximately the cost per acre of cul.
tivatlng each Of the different kinds Of
crops TO which the farm is adapted.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-06

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But they are only an indescribable
perplexity TO Prof. Il. +. Barnard di-
rector Of the Yerkes observatory, upon
Williams bay, Wisconsin. And Prof.
A. e. Douglass of the University of
Arizona, who was Prof, Lowell S chief
assistant for seven years-until 1901
has lately come out with the suggestion
that some of the Martian canals seem
ing to radiate from the so.caled GASES
on Mars may be due to an illusion Of
vision similar to that which makes rays
appear to extend from a star; also that
the double canals are due to the we'll
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-06

a canal. But Prof. Lowell says ones
"brain must be open to them, not his
eye alone.
Is he, like Riley's youngster, "seein
things at nIght?'
Conservative astronomers make small
bones Of intimating that he is. AL
though the disk Of Mars is, at best,
only 1-562O, that Of the moon and the
breadth of these canals is said TO be
but 1855 that of the disk of Mars,
Prof. Lowell says he sees these streaks
as n network of fine pencil marks; so
fine, however. that they are visible only
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-06

TO spring fresh mystery that will
plague astronomers for another genera
ton,
John EI .ERETH MATKING
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-12-17
BOY, HALF-WITTED,
PICKED UP IN SUBURBS

At II O'Clock last night a colored
boy, who gave his name as VIII VIII
son, and who mumbled that he lived
on West Garden street, was picked
up at Patterson station upon COM
plant Of people in the vicinity. who
did not like the way the boy was
acting nor the way he appeared in
the vicinity on such a niSht. In
spite Of the cold weather, he wore
neither hat or coat and was thinIv
clad. Mounted Officer Lowry found
the boy and sent him to the station
Arriving there he was locked I'D for
sale keeping. and his relatives. if ne
mas any, may get him out if they
show that he is as devoid Of reasoning
as he has made out already. The
people in the neighborhood Of where
he was arrested believed he was ir.
responsible, and that he would have
set fire to property there to get warm.
as he was about half-frozen. He is
about Is years of age.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-12-17
Who Will Give Most to
Our Narnesake Ship?

Tampa and Jacksonville are raising
money to help buy a suitable silver
service for the new battleship Florida
which VIII come on the ways next
March, the biggest, strongest and hand
soonest of Uncle Sans seafghters
afoat Other Florida cities are inter
ested, but thus far Jacksonville and
Tampa, which started their funds
some weeks ago, have outstripped ali
the rest.
Tampa, whose board of trade has
discovered that she is the richest and
most important city in the state" is
confident OF leading the list Of munich
pal contributors; but there are still
several months in which to augment
the fund for the purchase Of the Flor
ida's silver service. Pensacola may
catch Tampa and Jacksonville, in spite
of all their brags, if Pensacola peO-
pie, who have more money today than
they ever had in their lives before,
get busy and commence the raising OF
a fund
Every Floridian that can should
count it a privilege and a distinction,
not a drain or a hardship, to con-
tribute his mite. The Florida is to be
a beautiful piece of naval workman
ship and it is desirable that as many
Florida people as possible have a hand
in furnishing her.
Tampa and Jacksonville have a sub
stantial lead, but neither may come
under the wire ahead If Pensacola be
gins to raise her part of the purchase
price The sooner we start the more
speedily we increase our chances OF
winning out in this commendable com
petition with two sister cities. We
ought to get busy.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-12-17

the sidewalk. He said that teams
often stalled in front of his property
and were often compelled to unload.
He suggested that the sand be re
moved and a covering Of clay or ebert
be placed on the street. This was one
of the streets which the board Of
works desired paved, but the finance
committee, and it was recalled that
the complaining gentleman was the
chairman Of that committee, had turn
ed it down. The board viii acknOwl-
edge receipt of the communication,
with the information that attention
will be given when funds are avail
able
:. D. Bennett, Jr, residing at the
corner of Ninth avenue and Gadsden
street. wrote the board that after each
rain water flows southwark on the
avenue and has thus far cut away a
great deal of work that he had done
himself, some of it at night by torch
light, he said. It was discouraging, he
informed the board, that all work of
his own should be undone by no
fault of his. The board will place a
guard board or a drain there for tenn
pOrary relief, and later will try and
grade Ninth avenue above Gadsden
street.
The Stratton Ice Works, corner of
Chase and Tarragona streets, com
planned of a drain, built at its own
expense, had been stopped up by work
being done by the city. The engineer
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-12-17
RECKLESS THROWING OF
ROCKS NEAR UNION DEPOT

Early last night a fusiIade Of brick
bats and rocks, hurled by negro bows
near thf union depot, made travelling
right then very hazardous. The bows
chased of upon the approach of q
policeman and none were arrested. al.
though something may be done latte-
as some of them are known. \ few
hours after the occurrence a harIess
CoaJlSSS bow was found near RrantST
old mill on Bayou Chico. and il was
tho ghJ that he had been one OF the
gang, but it was afterwards found ont
that he had wandered from his bor1e
and he stated that he lived on West
Garden street Recorder Johnson has
Eood work for ali rock throvCrs in
the city. and he IS glad to get hold NJ
some Of the more chronic ones.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-12-17
AFTER Il YEARS
GIRL APPEARS
DECLARED LEGALLY DEAD BY
THE COURTS, MISS NELLIE
BURNS PROVES THE COURTS
DECISION is WRoNG-HAD BEEN
KIDNAPPED.
BY Associated Press.

St Louis, Dec l6.-AIiss Nellie
Burns, aged nineteen, missing for
eleven years and just three days as
declared legally dead by the circuit
court, today proved the courts de
cree wrong. It had been supposed
she was kidnapped and the court' 5
decision was rendered in a suit to
collect insurance on the chiId's life
At the time of her disappearance,
Burns and his wife were estra1ged
and living apart. The wife died ana
left the child to Mrs. Annie BOsse.
Nellie said today that she was on her
way to school when her father and
uncle seized her and took her to a
strange house She has been living
with her father since and is now clerk
n a department store in East St.
Louis.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-12-17
CANNOT ELECT
A PRESIDENT
NATIONAL LEAGUE ADJOURNS
UNTIL TODAY WITHOUT ELECT
ING A MAN TO SUCCEED THE
PRESENT INCUMBENT, JNo. A.
HEYDLER.
BY Associated Press.

New York, Dec. 1.-THE National
League adjourned until tomorrow
without eIecting a president TO succeed
John \. Heydler-
The first ballot for president Of the
National League developed the eX-
pected deadlock. Four yOtes-Phiia
deIphia, New York. Brooklyn and Chi
cago-were cast for John NJ Ward
while Pittsburg, Boston, st. Louis and
Cincinnati voted for President Heyd
Ter. Mr. Brush suggested that com
promise candidate be elected, but Ed
belts and Murphy arose and declared
against anyone but Ward. John /.
Brush rose from a sick bed today and
for the first time in many years at
tended a National League meeting
President Heydler withdrew from the
room when the meeting.
4 heated argument in which friends
interviewed occurred between Charles
W. Murphy and Ben ShiOe, Of the
Philadelphia owners, in a hotel cor
TidOr over an Indianapolis player
whom Shibe charged Murphy had cap
tured by unfair means.
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done, and desired appointments is
sued against J. y. Andrews, Miss Sal
lie Cummings, Jos. /. Johnson, LOnnie
White, and Mrs. Georgia Caro-. me
other bill was in the bunch submitted,
but the board learned that this Oil
had never been contested and it was
extracted from the rest of the bunch.
AppOTtiOnment warrants were ordered
in the case of the others.
SOME REQUESTS.
Mrs. Mamie Lovelass, who resided
until recently on West Gadsden street,
petitiOned the board for relief from
payment Of an extra large water bII.,
saying that the sidewalk constructors
had used water from The premises &C.
cupied by her and promised to pay for
II. They had not done SO, she main
| tanned. The board will take the mat
/ ter I'D with the contractors, as other
cases were reported OF like nature.
A. a. Brown. residing at the corner
/ of Palafox and Strong streets, COM
planned that the grass plot in front of
/ his residence had been filled in with
Stag, in which grass would not grow.
He offered to plant grass in the plot
and keep it in good shape if the city
would remove the Stag and place sand
, therein. This was referred to the
bond trustees.
II. C. DeSilva, residing on West
Gadsden street, complained of street
conditions at his place, saying the
street was considerably higher than
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-12-17
;AcoIA FLORIDA FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER II, 1909.

Troubles come not single hosts but in
battallions. Old man Zelaya is likely
slated for a bloody good licking from
Uncle Sam and young Zelaya, who, it
appears, came up to the United States
and made love to a pretty American
girl, only to beat it out again when
she took his proposal seriously and
fixed the marriage day, has now been
sued for breach Of promise by the
bride he never intended to take. Moth
ing doing in happiness for the ZeIaya
family this Christmas
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-12-17
NEW POOLING MOVEMENT
PROVES VERY PROFITABLE
BY Associated PresE.

Louisville, KY, Dec. 16.-KentUcky's
latest pooling movement, that On tur-
keys, today reported that its members
have made several profitable sales.
Women turkey raisers in Bath county
sold 1900 pounds at a fraction above
II cents per pound, which they claimed
was more than two cents per pound Ill
advance of what their individual eff
forts would have brought.
Wives and daughters OF farmers IN
Bourbon county reported a large sale
of Is cents per pound.