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Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-05-17

idNOI OF tne plalntlH lOT Il sum not
to exceed S2s for each of the three
offenses. The jury brought in a
verdict for IS cents damages
cents for each tresspass-and costs.
From this sentence Lamore is now
appealing. Meantime a temporary
Injunction had been obtained, cutt-
ing off Lamora's fishing, which he
had been steadily prosecuting. On
motion to make the injunction
permanent, both sides agreed to
await a final decision in the Private
Park case.
This is nota all. The Standard Oil
magnate had also brought suit
against Lamora under the common
law for SIS for tresspass. He got
six cents. This was followed by
another suit, this time for exempt
airy damages, which was soon with
drawn. Rockefeller has been max
ing legal action pretty expensive in
time, money, and worry for the OBJ
stinate fisherman.
The campaign against Brandon
now began to broaden. Signs warn
ing off trespassers were put up on all
sides of the roads leading out from
the town. Many of these are high
roads, but the Rockefeller attorneys
assume that they are private pro-
perty. Let the other fellows
prove that they are highways" say
the lawyers.
Old trails were closed, and barred
against the passage of the Brandon
ties. Residents of the little settle
ment, who had obtained employ
ment in a lumber company con-
trolled by William Rockefeller, were
discharged at the behest of the Bay
Pond estate watchers. The word
went forth that no Brandon man
could get a job in that country.
Children going out from the hamlet
20 pick berries on the mountainsides
were driven home by the watchers
and threatened with harm if they
repeated the offense. Undeniably
the berries belonged to Rockefeller,
but in view of the fact that they were
never marketed, and that ninety mine
per cent of them were left to wither
on the bushes, the inhibition is re-
garded by those most concerned as
harsh, though legal enough.
But the Rockefeller employees
have not always kept within the law,
and herein, presumably, they have
gone beyond their instructions. \
Brandon man named Barcumb, while
fishing in the st. Regis, had his pole
shot in two by watcher who is a
crack marksman. At the same time
he was struck by a rock, from the
hand of the watchers companion.
Both assailants were arrested, but
before the case came up for trial,
Barcumb (without any procurement
on the part of the Rockefeller inhu
ences, it is but fair to say) had gone
to the poorhouse. Other charges ot
violence are made against the game
keepers, but most of them lack sub,
sanitation.
Naturally, methods such as these
made William Rockefeller unpopular
but what followed was a sorer eXas
peration to the thinning population
of Brandon.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-05-17
erness was in progress
OLIVER LAMORA

Thus far the pursuance of the
Rockefeller ambition was along legi-
innate lines. Now, however, it en-
countered the first serious obstacle in
the person of Oliver Lamora. La
mora is a French-American; old, ig-
norant, poor, obstinate, and fearless.
A veteran of the civil war, he has
pension enough for a plain subsist-
ence, which he ekes out with trout
from the streams, partridge and deer
from the forest, and berries from the
mountainside. When Rockefeller
forbade hunting and fishing around
Brandon, old Lamora was bitter and
outspoken against the edict. What
did he care that Rockefeller had
bought the land; he had always
hunted and fshed there, and no in
terloping millionaire could stop him
Such was his attitude.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-05-17
ing an estate there.
AS BY A BARBER

Ducey was a practical lumberman
of the sort that is fast stripping the
forest regions of the United States
stark naked. He left no tree that
could possibly be regarded as a log.
There are whole sections about
Brandon where the face of nature
has been shaved as by skillful bar
Der.
Ducey's lumber mill practically
created the town out of what had
been the merest hamlet. When the
last tree had fallen Ducey moved,
and most of the population moved
after him. He left the mill and the
land only because he couldn't con-
veniently take them with him. The
only commercial enterprises that sur
vived him were the sportsman's hotel
and the country store.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-05-17
the agent of devastation.
NOT FOR THAT MONEY

He don get it for no fifteen hundr'
dollar now, Ole Rockyfellow don, "
said Lamora to me, in his quantity
accented English. He pay me five
thousan' dollar now if he want it. "
Legitimate methods failing to oust
Lamora, Rockefeller now resorted
to measures not so clearly defensible
In March, 1902, he caused the old
mans arrest for fishing in a branch
of the st. Regis river, which the mil
lionaire claims to own. His lawyer,
who is also his partner in several
land enterprises, withdrew the case,
after two adjournments made at his
own request, and brought civil action
in a distant part of the country for
SIS damages with costs, charging
violation of the Private Park law.
The withdrawn case had already
cost Lamora some money, and now
he was hard up to it to appear in the
distant court, but his neighbors, i'll
off as they were, contributed toward
his expense, and the firm of Willard
* Leslie Saunders, of Dickinson
Centre, volunteered to undertake
his defense.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-05-17
HE LED A FIGHT

BY general consent he became the
mouthpeice and leader of the old
Guard" who still stuck to Brandon.
Little by little he saw the numbers
of his companions dwindle. Fauche
who kept the little grocery store,
found his trade so waning that he sold
out. Lamora's two cousins got jobs
elsewhere and were glad to leave.
The family across the street departed
and Rockefeller left the house stand
ing for the purpose of putting in it
Eugene Flanders, one of his
Watchers" as the game keepers and
forest guards are called. To La
morals mind, Flanders was set there
to spy upon him, but Lamora's veiws
must be taken with liberal allow
ance for bias. Probably had the old
man been less defiant in his attitude
from the first, the offer which was
finally made would have come sooner
And right here it is well to note that
Lamora is no yellow journal hero"
defending his home against the dep
edations of a heartless millionaire.
He was willing to sell out if he could
get his price. And he thought that
Rockefeller with his vast wealth
ought to pay roundly. So he asked
81. 500. Now Lamora's house is un-
usually large for Brandon, and is
better built than the average, but |
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-05-17
FOURTEEN FAMILIES

Five years ago Brandon boasted
twelve hundred inhabitants. 1t had
its church, its prosperous hotel, its
hourishing school, and its busy mill.
Today it can muster but fourteen
families and as many more deserted
houses. All the rest is scrub-grown
space. The hotel is burned down,
the mill is razed, the church stands
empty, the two or three hundred
dwellings have vanished. Enemies
of Rockefeller name him bitterly. as
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-05-17
BRANDON MUST 90

Only Brandon stands in his way;
household belongings and their large
families, wandered forth to fell new
acreage of woodland. Behind them
remained few of the older dwellers,
too inert, perhaps, perhaps too OBJ
stinate, or possibly too long-rooted
in habit, to be moved.
These conservatives sat and
watched Rockefeller buy land all
around them until they were COM
pletly inclosed. Most of it he
bought from one Pat Ducey, who
owned twenty-five thousand acres
of timber land around and including
Brandon when Rockefeller came to
the mountains for the purpose of buy
L
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-05-17
THE BUYING
OF BAY POND

To Ducey came Rockefeller's
agents. Would he sell his land2 He
would-at a price. Would he name
the price2 He would and did. Ac-
cording to rumor it was SIoo, 900.
As anamendment the agent suggested
half that amount, and the sale was
eventually concluded on these terms.
Rockefeller built himself superb
country place on Bay Pond, one of
the fairest little bodies of water in
the Adirondacks, some four miles
from Brandon. Other purchases
followed until he owned all the land
for miles around the town, including
both banks of st. Regis river and its
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-05-17

Baker named a pretty stiff price.
Rockefeller's agent laughed at him.
Your hotel isn't worth anything
now," said he. You won't have
any guests after this"
oh, l think they'll stand by me, I"
said Baker, falling to see the point.
Then they'll have to go a long
way for their fun," retorted the
agent They can't cross our prop
erty to get to the ST. Regis river,
and they couldn't fish in our stream
if they could get there. Well prose-
cute if they shoot in our woods.
What are they going to dor
In vain the hotel keeper protested
that the river had been stocked at
state expense, and that, as a stream
used for years for floating lumber, il
was public water.
You'll have to prove it in every
court, right up to the court of APP
peals" said the agent. We'll fight
you to a finish on that point.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-05-17

very much doubt whether as a real
estate proposition il is worth 81, 500.
Whether il was worth that to Rookie
feller to tear down was for the maker
of wilderness to determine. The
agent asked for two weeks in which
to refer the matter. Lamora gave
him three. That is the last he heard
from the agent. But some weeks
later one of the watchers, meeting
him, told him that he'd better get
out while he could sell his place for
something or they'd law him out, "
as Lamora quotes the warning. To
the ill-paid woodsman of the Adj
rondacks, who have had or heard of
experience with suits brought by alb
sentee landlords, involving expen-
sive defense, the law is not protec-
ton, therefore Brandon must go.
Not in any spirit of vindictiveness
has Mr.. Rockefeller reached this de-
termination, but because he wants
the land upon which the population
now lives for the deer and foxes, the
partridges and the quail of his do
main. To that end he has brought
every measure in his vast power for
several years, from damage suits for
trespass in which sterile victory
brought him six cents. to making the
government of the United States,
through the postofice department
his instrument of persecution. But
the town is still on the map.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-05-17
HE HAD NO MONEY

Baker had no money to undertake
an expensive legal campaign. He
sold his hotel for s5, 900, went away
and died shortly after. In Brandon
one hears that he was bounded to
death by Rockefeller but such is
the local feeleng in the matter that
had Baker fallen overheard in mid
Atlantic or been butted to death by
a pet goat. some way would be
found to lay the responsibility at
Rockefeller's door.
Then came a move which startled
the inhabitants-the letting in the
Jungle" Like a destructive horde of
ants came the money-king's meal,
and soon the little cluster of human
remnants looked out upon the place
where their neighbors had once lived
to see only the swift-growing brush
drawing its mask of warm and kindly
green across swept ground and raw
excavations. The making of Wild
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-05-17

A story of absorbing interest, in
which the annihilation of a COM
munity to serve the selfish ends of
William Rockefeller, one of the lead
ing directors in the Amalgamated
Copper company, is told in Golfers
Weekly. The story, which deals
with much that has never before been
touched upon in the newspapers, is
told in graphic and attractive style.
1t is in part as follows: Butte Even
ing News.
To buy a wilderness and make a
community Of it is within the OPP
portunity of any moneyed man.
To buy a community and make a
wilderness of it may well be beyond
the powers of the greatest of million
aires. William G.. Rockefeller, vice
president of the Standard Oil com
pany. is making the experiment on
the little hamlet of Brandon in the
heart of the Adirondacks. By meth
ods that are always within the law
or what his attorneys interpret as the
law-he is patiently striving to dis
lodge the remnants of the populace
that still hold root inside the circle of
his great game preserve. All the
land about them is his; he has bought
it and paid for it thousands upon
thousands of acres, more than two
whole townships, comprising lakes,
rivers, forest and mountains.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-05-17
tributary streams.
GUESTS WILL 90

But Ducey couldn't sell the town
of Brandon entire, because he didn't
own it all. For instance, Harrison
c.. Baker owned the little summer
hotel. Being in the center of rich
fishing and hunting country it was a
paying enterprise. But to have
lot of summer and fall fishermen and
gunners tramping over his property
was nopart of Rockefeller's program.
He undertook to buy the hotel.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-05-17

his defense.
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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-06-17
SWEDISH LABOR UNIONS
FAVOR NORWArS POSITION

! Stockholm, June 1.-THE attitude
Of the laboring GLASSES il likely to prove
q potent factor in overcoming any pos
sible disposition on the part Of q Sec
ton Of the riksdag to suggest the adop-
ton Of coercive measures toward Nor
way and in Influencing the chamber
in favor Of accepting the dissolution Of
the union of Norway and Sweden.
Swedish labor unions are daily tele-
graphing to Norwegian unions, saying
they will refuse to take up arms, and
the Social Democratic party has issued
a proclamation to the working GLASSES
reading:
''It becomes more apparent daily
that the upper GLASSES and reactionary
newspapers are attempting to cultivate
q sentiment hostile to Norway with
the view to calling the people to arms
against her in her struggle for liberty. -
The proclamation goes on to say it
is the firm decision Of the workingmen
not to respond to q call to arms, and
asserts that they intend to 60 out on
strike over the whole country il the
riksdag comes to such decision. In
conclusion the proclamation calls upon
the laboring classes throughout Swed-
en- to manifest their opinion Of the sit
uation at public meetings.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-06-17
BooDLrRs CONFESS.
rive Officials OF Milwaukee Said to
Admit BOodlina.

Rive Officials OF Milwaukee Said to
Admit BOodling.
Milwaukee, Wis, June 12.-On June
80 the grand jury will begin sitting
the official life Of Milwaukee, city
and county. It 10 conceded that the
jurors just sworn in will laud on big
game, it being admitted that the three
grand juries which have made inquiry
will prove to have been but prelimi-
naries to the one that goes to work
probing graft this month. The other
grand juries got the small grafters,
the present one is expected to get the
big grafters.
There have been all sorts of rumors
afloat as to what the grand jury will
do, but none Of them originate on any
authority from District Attorney Nc
Govern or his ocffie.
It is known, however, that the five
men who have grated as officials have
confessed and that their confessions
will be placed before the grand jury az
soon az it settles dewn to business.
Who will be caught depends upon what
the men who have confessed have
owned mp to.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-06-17

ervoir, tank, box nume or other re-
ceptacle. and allow it to remain there
for use when needed, thereby proper
~ exemplifying the correct definition
Of irrigation? He should provide his
head ditch with gates wherever later
ais occur, irrigate to-day i've or ten
acres Of his land. refill his box, ditch
or reservoir by again setting his pump
at work while he sleeps, and to-mor-
row look after the irrigation Of some
other part Of the land. BY pursuing
some such policy one Is not required
to invest in large and expensive
plant capable Of discharging enough
water to food all the land at one
time and can accomplish the proper
irrigation at minimum cost. IF. w.
Wilsey, in Denver Field and Farm.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-06-17

the Dutch settlers at the Cape being
divided In their sentiments, some be-
ing sullenly loyal to the crown and
others hostile. After the war his DIFF
ffculties began to multiply. The reset
Element Of a wartorn country, the rep
aration Of the Boer exiles, the reorgan-
ization OF the entire English section Of
South Africa and reviving Of arrested
business these and many other prob.
lens confronted Lord Miner. He
leaves South Africa with these prob
lens either solved or in process. Of 90
LUTON, thus opening up relatively
easy pathway for his successor.
Lord Selborne was born In 1860 and
succeeded his father, the famous
statesman and chancellor, in the earl
dom in 1895. He has filed the post Of
first lord Of the admiralty with entire
satisfaction and has earned Tor him
self great popularity.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-06-17
THEY THINK DIVORCE RIGHT.

New York women Say II Gives TheiA
Sex Freedom from Bondage.
Rather a novel phase Of the divorces
discussion has appeared In New York,
where a society for political study COM
posed Of women listened with approval
to a declaration that divorce from an
otherwise helpless and unfair subordi-
nation. Said the New York dispatches
concerning the matter: S
The largest patch in the mental
crazy quilt which Mrs. Belle Gray
Taylor presented to the New York So
ciety for Political Study Tuesday re-
lated to the question Of divorce, and
in it Mrs. Taylor took particular ex-
cepuon to the assumption that men
and women who have entered into the
marriage contract have been Joined to-
gether by God.
sThis theory will not stand intelli-
gent scrutiny" said Mrs. Taylor, for
IL It be true we must assume that the
great Creator Of all good ID very poor
matchmaker. The increasing frequency
Of divorce does not prove that man
kind Il growing worse, but rather. that
it il xrowing more intelligent"
81 think that most married couples
are bound together by man, and NOT ~
God . said Mr.. Thomas b. Slack. and
believe in divorce. Divorce - to
many women Just what Canada used
ia be to the negro. It II freedom
from bondage. New York Tribune.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-06-17
nANY ELECTRIC ROADS.
Westminster, B. C., to Be Center. OF
Extensive Systems.

Westminster, B. C., to Be Center. OF
Extensive Systems.
New Westminster, B. c., June Ia
II present arrangements are carried
out, this city will soou be the center
Of network Of electric railways trav-
ersing the rich farming lands of the
Fraser river delta.
The British Columbia Electric Rail-
way Company, which operates the
electric lines in Vancouver, Victoria
and this city, has leased from the Cam
adian Pacific railway the twelve miles
Of track between Vspcouver and Ste-
venson.
As an Offset to this move, which will
divert the Stevenson trade from this
city to Vancouver, the city council has
offered to bonus q line from this city
across Lulu island direct to Steveston-
The Canadian Pacific railway off,
cials who were here last week went
into the proposition, and it is more
than probable that the big corporation
will construct the new line and turn it
over to the British Columbia Electric
Railway company for operation.
Then the matter Of the Canadian Pa
cific branch line which connects this
city with the main line was discussed,
and the proposition was mooted of
handing this line over to the electric
company for operation, they to agree
to operate an hourly service.
The big MacLaren-Ress mills, at
hillside, four miles from this city, on
the line of the Canadian Pacific rail-
way, will be opened in about two
months and employ 200 men. The
British Columbia Electric Railway has
been anxious to get line to this mill,
and if the present idea becomes real
ity they will be able to crafty their
wish.
Still another electric line is to be
constructed this year. This will be
from Chilliwaok, the rich farming dis
trict at the head of river navigation
on the Fraser. to this city. The COM
pany is now purchasing right-of-way,
and the line will soon be in course Of
construction. It will connect at this
city with the British Columbia Elec-
trio railway systemes.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-06-17
ilIITY TOO GREAT
ot,f1AND WRITES OF fIDUCI.
AIRY HONESTY.
.,xe, Our Pace Than to
In, our Old Simple Amer
49,, standards of Honesfy-Per.
,,,vse of Trust Interests No
ost,er Than Stealing.

yorL lime I3.-Former Presl-
New ",aroland. has written a letter to
dent o.s + RYAN concerning the trus-
InO aa Of the stock of the Equitable,
tessh'tb 10 accepts. The letter has been
MADE public, and says IN part I'll. "a
D' while the hope that l might aid
;mnroving the plight of the Equita-
!, NJ ls society has led me to accept the
o Die s you tender, l cannot rid
'lus s"It Of the belief that what has
nss staten this company is liable to
p Own to other insurance companies
Dod rtduciary organizations as long az
s au' IDEAS of responsibility in places OF
. ~ are tolerated by our people.
Tvs. nTbe high pressure of speculation,
l.. madness of inordinate business
Blaming -. and the chances taken in
sau and uncertain enterprises are con-
. up presenting temptations, too OF
~. .' successful in leading managers and
S-acrors away from scrupulous loyalty
sDd fidelity to the interests of others
confded to their care.
I'VE can better afford to slacken ou1
,oca than to abandon our old, simple
american style standards Of honesty
.nd We shall be safer If we regain our
I'D habit of looking at the appropria-
t;on to personal uses of property and
interests held in trust in the same
lipht as other forms of stealing. Yours
very truly,
GROVER CLEVELAND"
Nine policy holders yesterday filed
.uits of intervention in the United
States circuit court asking to be
made party plaintiffs with J. Wilcox
Browne, of Baltimore, who recently
fled suit in the federal courts asking
that receiver be appointed for the
surplus of the Equitable Life Assur.
ance Society.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-06-17
TIVE THOUSAND LevlSeS.
s Family Day will Brine rlanS
Relatives of EXPLORER.

Ieu G.'isnd, Or. June 12.-The local
abon. nociety is sending invitations to
Lewis ~ s'ooo persons Of the name Of
sttsns throughout the United States to
on Tue .ne Lewis and Clark expedition
n. %s fsmily day, Augustl 3.
liera =. Iooai Lewlsea have reason to be-
bsrs suas nearly 5000 Lewises win be
speech W. august IL. A program Of
4 com rs ana music is being prepared.
to Tsnn l'eee Is to be appointed 70 20
Aeniwse.sssee and decorate the grave OF
the con Lewis Immediately after
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-06-17
WILL RULE IN SOUTH AFRICA
Lord 9elborne Transferred to the Post
Of High Commissioners.
After eight years Of arduous rule In
South Africa Lord Miner, who at one
time was one Of the most severely crit.

icised men In the
e m pire, relin-
quishes the post
there and II sue
ceeded by Lord
Selborne, rst
lord Of the admir-
atty. Lord Miner
was commissioners
at the Cape dur
ing the period Of
tho Boer war and
had q difficult sit