SERVICE NOTES FOR OCTOBER. 



These notes contain instructions and necessary information to forest 

 officers, and will therefore be carefully read and kept on file for 

 reference. 



LAW. 



OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR. 



Law Cases in District 1 



On July 9, 1912, George Robinsor. was indicted in the district court 

 of the United States for the district of Minnesota for willful injury to 

 a Government telephone line. He entered a plea of guilty and was 

 sentenced to 10 days' imprisonment. The judge administered a severe 

 reprimand and stated he would have imposed a sentence of six months 

 if the defendant had not already spent approximately that length of 

 time in jail awaiting trial. 



On September 5, 1912, in the cases of the United States v. Wm. D. 

 Nelson, Arthur J. Kulp, and John E. deary, the United States district 

 court for the district of Idaho overruled defendants' demurrers to 

 iridictments for perjury. The indictments charged that the defendants 

 had applied to enter certain lands upon the Coeur d'Alene Forest and 

 had filed with their applications affidavits containing false and fraudu- 

 lent statements with regard to settlement and residence. The indict- 

 ments each contained two counts, one charging an offense under section 

 5 of the act of March 3, 1857 (11 Stat., 250), and the other perjury 

 under the Penal Code of March 4, 1909. The court held that the act 

 oi 1857 had been repealed by the revision of the United States statutes 

 in 1873, but that the indictments were good under section 125 of the 

 Penal Code. 



Law Cases in District 3 



On preliminary hearing before the United States commissioner Fran- 

 cisco Arballo was held for the grand jury under bond of $500 for graz- 

 ing trespass on the Coronado National Forest ; Juan Espinoza waived 

 preliminary hearing and was held for the grand jury under bond of 

 $100 for grazing trespass on the Crook National Forest, the civil suit 

 being settled for $78.85, the value of the forage consumed ; on pre- 

 liminary hearing before the United States Commissioner Looch Jones 

 and Ira Corder were held for the grand jury under bond of $250 each 

 for fire trespass on the Arkansas National Forest. 



Suit for timber trespass on the Alamo National Forest was brought 

 against J. H. McRae and R. A. Barrett to recover $1,200, the value ot 

 the timber on a willful basis ; and for timber trespass on the Florida 



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