The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1914-04-08
ROCKEFEFLERS
LONG FIGHT WON
Against Lone Trapper In
Adirondacks.
OLD FELLOW WAS HARRASSE0
For Years BY Agents or The
Oil King-SOn Suceumt-
ed At Last.
ONCE GOT Is-CENT JUDGMENT


ezs received here to-day that the
celebrated observation-disclosures feud
azs been ended by the action OF
william Lamors in selling the cabin
and grounds left to him By his faith
". the hunter and trspper. who
ssesdfsstly refused to surrender his
property 10 make up a portion OF
gillian Rockefeller's vast Adiron-
lacks game preserve. The old
nan's dying declaration was that
Rockefeller would never get the
property.
In 1902 William Rockefeller set
sa1t ~ acquire his Adirondaeks
zane preserve. and out Of it arose
he legal battle Of the oil magnate
and the old trapper and fisherman.
Diver Lamora. Rockefeller bought
g2.OO0 acres around the town OF
Brandon. Oliver LamOra's cabin
md clearing were in the way, but
40 sieadfastly refused all offers
p : s
property. And the old trspper re-
used TO obey the signs that Rookie
seIIer caused to be nailed TO trees
fOrbidding any one to trespass on
ne property, TO FISH in the streams.
md even prohibited the children
from picking berries.
Three thousand OF these signs
zsre posted and Rockefeller had so
-@ntirely bought up the village OF
Brandon that you could not 90 to
-hurch nor the children 10 school
asithout committing technical
sresspsss every time ii happened.
The Indignation OF all the old
,attlers grew warmer and warmer.
Rockefeller had purchased five miles
III property on both sides Of the st.
tegis river, a glorious woodland
.1ream that flows to the st. Law
as.nce famous for more than CEN
uary for the magnificent trout in its
eaters. IL was the desire TO pos
,eSs this stream that brought about
ne wholesale Rockefeller purchas-
-
Oliver LamOra was rugged old
-lan Of French Canadian descent,
md he could look upon Rockefel-
,er'S advent in the country as moth
ing but rank invasion. Save for
In
she Civil War, Lamora had lived
along the lakes and river of this
SECTION his whole life. He had made
rs living from the trout streams
and woods. He regarded the Rookie
r.ller signs OF prohibition as ride
ulOus.
He went on shaking his fist in
rtne faces OF the Rockefeller keep
RS and pulling trout out OF the ST.
Regis
Rockefeller had LamOra arrested
,,n charges OF trespassing, but twice
~. beat Rockefeller in the courts by
showing that the fish In the Rookie
TELLER streams were supplied by the
State hatchery and that the Park
LaV Of 1910 forbids the setting aside
II such waters as part OF any pri-
xatr estate. Lamora even found
nimself accused of trespassing be-
cause he had to go through Rookie
seller grounds To get 10 the Bran
son pOst-oiiice.
On the third occasion, when
Rockefeller got Lamora In the
courts, II was In civil suit for
damages The old inhabitant was
charged with trespassing and the
unlawful taking OF thirty-six trout.
iamora's old friends and neighbors
In Brandon rallied around the old
irapper. who had very little money.
and raised by subscription the f.
,lancial armament with which to
battle with the Rockefeller high
priced lawyers.
The case went through several
courts, and finally the Appellate
'court decided in Rockefeller's IA
eor. He got damages in the stag