The Ocala evening star., 1911-04-03
AUCTION OF BARRY'S EFFECTS
The Gallant Captains Colonization
scheme Went Up Like a Rocket
and Came Down Like stick

The trial of lot of dusky Sunday
crap shooters created some of a rifle
this morning before Judge Bell. but
the auction sale of a carload of mer-
chandise belonging to Capt. W. c. Bar
ry. veteran of the blue, from Butler,
Pa, on an attachment, By Sheriff Gal
loway, at II a m. eclipsed every other
interest for the day. Here is the
cause of the trouble. Captain Barry
is one eyed promoter. He is not new
to Florida sunshine nor TO Ocala- Has
been here on several occasions and the
old timers remembered him II years
ago when the present gas plant was
Installed when the captain blew into
the Brick City breezily accompanied
by two immense mastif dogs, admired
by every one. Just what his mission
was then we have forgotten. His next
remembered call was before Christ
mas, when he came down from the
north and registered at the Ocala
House with forty, more or less, others.
He made the Star a call and informed
US that he was a colonizer, had
crowd with him and would locate on
lands between Dallas and South Lake
Weir and that the squad he brought
along would be augmented with a
could be selected and houses erected
on same for the occupancy of the new
corners. A month or two later we
We're informed the captain was in
| trouble. not serious however, by buy
ing several carloads of lumber in this
| city and not sending a check for it as
promptly as promised. but later il was
amicabIy and satisfactorily adjusted.
| Then came rumors of dissatisfaction
/ of some of the parties he brought
with him. That the land and the
prospects not so bright and glowing g
as induced the purchasers to invest.
| When the captain was questioned. ne
said you know there are some people
who never can be satisfied and who
expect to buy a bearing orange grove
at the rate of $50 an acre, etc. Later
on came further trouble. which landed
| the gallant old veteran in the Marion
Jail and came about on the plea of
plaintiffs that the captain had sold
| them for 500 an acre which the cap
tain even didn't own and positively re-
! fused to return the money. 1t is on
| these charges that the captain now
languishes in the dungeons vile. There
are half a dozen complainants. We
met a Mr.. w. Henry Burech of Butler,
ests of a Mr.. Anderson Parvis at
| Weirsdale. The attorneys in the case
are the DevantS of Brooksville and w.
K. Zewadski of Ocala. The sheriff an
nounced the nature of the sale and
said if the carload of merchandise
consisting of about everything to
build a house and equip it. did not
bring the price he thought il was
worth, he would reserve the right to
accept or reject the bid. The first
thing sold on the sidewalk of the west
side of the court house door were four
lots somewhere in Marion county. for
Newman Furniture Co, fernando
county, then a wardrobe for $5 to a
Mrs. Sweetspeaker, followed by
Jumping small carload of miscellan-
eous stuff the bidding being confined
to G. Y. Miller, Jim Howell and Ed
Carmichael, which ended in Howell
becoming the owner of the lot for
/ $240. Sale was then adjourned until
this afternoon and all the merchandise
could be brought from the depots. If
Jim Howell had secured a license to
conduct a. second hand esta blishment
he could have retai1ed the stuff off at
several hundred per cent. He had
calls for mattresses, water spouts, ci-
gars. shawls, Budweiser beer. etc. but
Jim said the latter was a reserve fund
for irrigating purposes on the Anthony
| Farms is case Of another drouth, and
then the thirsty ones had a severe
case of the doggrins