The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1910-04-28
DUNAtlL0N NEWS
Camps Block q Move Of the SeabOard.
PrOmiscuous Shooting at Ellison
(Adyocate)

w j Fielding returned from Null
berry, Fla, Sunday. having rented a
hotel there, and began at once to get
ready to move. He notified the board
ers at the Central House that it would
close at once and on Monday noon the
last meal was served and they began
packing for shipment TO Mulberry. He
has a good location there and starts
into the business with a house full of
boarders. Mr.. and Mrs. Fielding have
many friends in Dunnellon who regret
to lose them : residents of the city.
They are good hotel people and have
prospered here. The people at their
new location will find them good citi-
zens and the Advocate wishes them
much success in business there.
A somewhat exaggerated report Of
shooting affair at Ellison reached
Dunnellon early Sunday morning and
several parties went out to see the
dead and wounded. At first reports
twelve negroes and two white men
had been more or less shot TO pieces,
but the number gradually decreased
until il got down to three niggers and
one white man. Grover Johns had
crew of negroes there on railroad
work and Saturday night they be-
came involved in a general scrap with
a turpentine camp crew nearby. Sew
eral shots were exchanged and Johns
hurried out to quell the trouble. A
negro drew a pistol upon him and he
pvt load of buckshot into the negro
with probably fatal results. Two 9TH
er negroes were wounded in the shoot
ing among themselves and Johns re-
ceived painful wound in his leg.
The affair was bad enough, though
not as great a battle as first reported
For a while Sunday it looked like
trouble on the Seaboard. The railroad
had made deal with the Camps for
their short line railroad with which
to connect their new line running
through this city, but for some cause
or other the money to be paid for it
had been held up. The Camps OBJ
jected to connecting up with their
line until the terms had been, COM
piled with. Sunday morning the rail-
road crew was ordered to go TO work
and make the connection anyway and
began to make the dirt fly. The fact
was telephoned in to Mr.. Camp at
Ocala and in less than an hour an
automobile speeded upon the crew and
Camp ordered work to cease. The ne
groes took to the woods in all direc-
/ tons The foreman of the crew was
! struck with gun by one of the men,
it is said to impress Obedience 10 tho
order. The track was torn up. AS a
result the railroad people cot busy
and by Monday evening had arranged
matters with the Camps ana il was
announced that work would begin
again Tuesday morning. With a rail-
! road, possession is nine points al law
and it is pretty generally conceded
| here that the Camps got there at
about the right time to project their
/ interests.
| H. w. Stalker. the gentleman who
has been building the depo' for the
! Seaboard here, rented the Withlacoo-
chez Hotel and assumed charge Mon
day morning. Mr.. and Mr.. Stalker
| were boarding at the Central House
and on learning that it was going TO
| close down decided to go into the no
| tel business and live at home. 1t will
! be continued 50 a day house, but
! Mr.. Stalker starts in with q nice lot
: OF bOarderS, a very necessary feature
! to the success of a hotel in a town of
this size. He is a pleasant gentleman
and a hustler and starts in with a de-
! termination to make it win
! Among those who We're over from
! Ocala Tuesday We're K. Z. Thagard. q.
c. Crom, Ed Carmichael, John Spencer,
| r. L. Heating, c. L. Bittinger Henry
Gordon, L. V. Leavengood and Sheriff
! John Z. Galloway. There We're others
whose names we did not ascertain.
/ making quite county-seat appear
anCe in DunnellOn
| Odd Fellows meet Tuesday night.