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Eailway Co. against a purchaser of National Forest timber to restrain 

 him from cutting timber from the land which the company claims 

 by virtue of an alleged selection, and one against a Forest Service 

 special-use permittee to restrain him from occupying land which is 

 alleged to be embraced in the plaintiff's mining claim. One case 

 involving the falsification of accounts resulted in conviction and a 

 fine of $60. In a bribery case the grand jury returned no true bill. 

 An indictment has been found and is pending in one forgery case. 

 Four cases involve larceny of Government property. There were 

 two cases involving personation of employees of the Forest Service, 

 one resulting in conviction and sentence to 30 days in jail, and the 

 other in a pending indictment. Three cases of destruction of Govern- 

 ment property resulted in conviction and sentence to 60 days in 

 jail in one, in an indictment in another, and in preparation for pres- 

 entation to the grand jury of the third. One case of an assault 

 upon a forest ranger resulted in the acquittal of the defendant. 

 Another defendant was acquitted of the charge of killing a Govern- 

 ment witness. Four appropriations of water for the Forest Service 

 under State laws were pending in various stages at the close of the 

 year. 



COURT DECISIONS OF INTEREST. 



In Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. v. United States 

 (218 Fed., 288) the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit 

 affirmed the decision of the district court decreeing specific per- 

 formance by the company of an agreement to execute a stipula- 

 tion for the protection of the Coeur d'Alene National Forest and 

 for the payment to the United States of $68,489, the value of timber 

 cut by the company in constructing its right of way across the 

 forest. 



Following the decision of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the 

 Eighth Circuit in United States v. Utah Power & Light Co. (209 

 Fed., 554), the United States District Court for the District of Utah 

 entered decrees restraining five hydroelectric power companies from 

 further occupancy of national forest lands in Utah without per- 

 mission from the Secretary of Agriculture. 



In Boise Lumber Co. v. Pacific & Idaho Northern Railroad Co. 

 and Oregon Short Line Railroad Co., in which, at the request of 

 this department, the Attorney General intervened in behalf of the 

 Government, the Interstate Commerce Commission (33 I. C. C, 

 109) ordered a reduction of 2 cents per hundred pounds in the rate 

 charged by the two companies for transportation of logs on their 

 lines into Boise from territory embracing the Weiser National 

 Forest. By this reduction it is expected that timber theretofore 

 unmarketable on account of high freight rates will now be avail- 

 able for sale. 



In Cameron v. Bass, a suit to enjoin a special-use permittee of this 

 department from occupying certain lands within an alleged mining 

 location, the court overruled plaintiff's motion to strike parts of 

 defendant's answer setting up the cancellation of the location by 

 the Secretary of the Interior, and held that, where the Interior De- 

 partment rejects the application for a patent and annuls the location, 

 it is proceeding fully within its poAvers. 



United States v. Hodges (218 Fed., 87) involved the occupancy by 

 defendant of land which had been reserved by the President for the 



