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ant's testimony that he did not know the contents of the instrument, that if he pre- 

 sented it to a public officer and was sworn as to the truth of the contents, he should 

 be bound by the statements contained in the affidavit. 



United States v. Addie Thompson: Civil suit for $51.60 for grazing trespass. Case 

 was set for trial at June term of United States District Court for the District of Montana 

 and settled by defendant before trial for amount asked and costs. 



United States v. W. W. Ferrell: Suit to enjoin defendant from interfering with the 

 occupancy and use of the North Fork Ranger Station at Avery, Idaho. The defend- 

 ant claimed title by virtue of a mining claim, located subsequently to the withdrawal 

 for administrative purposes. On June 9, 1913, the District Court of the United States 

 for the district of Idaho granted a temporary restraining order enjoining the defend- 

 ant from interfering with the occupancy and use of the said ranger station and ingress 

 and egress thereto, during the pendency of the suit. 



Law Cases in District 2 



On May 21, 1913, S. J. Dixon pleaded guilty in the United States District Court at 

 Deadwood, upon an information charging the unlawful grazing of horses upon the 

 Harney National Forest and a fine of 825 was imposed. 



The case of the United States v. C. C. Fliniau, involving the unlawful grazing of 

 cattle upon the Routt National Forest, was tried before a jury in the United States, 

 District Court at Denver on June 19, 1913, and resulted in a verdict of acquittal. 



The citation of Andrew Norell, charged with contempt for violating an order of in- 

 junction issued out of the United States District Court at Denver, by grazing cattle 

 without a permit upon the Routt and Arapaho National Forests, was heard by the 

 court on April 29, and the order to show cause why the defendant should not be pun- 

 ished as for contempt was dismissed. 



In the case of the United States v. W. E. Taylor, filed in the United States dis- 

 trict court for Wyoming, in which damages in the sum of 1274.35 were sought on 

 account of the unlawful grazing of cattle on the Bighorn National Forest, the Secre- 

 tary of Agriculture on May 31, 1913, recommended to the Attorney General that the 

 compromise offer of $120.45 be accepted. 



The case of the United States v. Goemmer and Goemmer, a suit filed in the United 

 States district court at Denver, Colo., asking the cancellation of a patent for timber 

 and stone lands upon the ground that the land was most valuable for coal, was 

 settled and dismissed June 14, 1913, upon the reconveyance to the United States of 

 the coal which might be found in the land. 



Indictments were returned at the May term of the United States district court at 

 Deadwood, S. Dak., against Frank Corns, James Riley, Amos and Thomas Smith, 

 and John H. Woodford upon the charge of leaving fires burning unattended near Na- 

 tional Forest land. The defendants were arrested and released on bonds given to 

 insure their appearance at the September term of court. 



The fire trespass of the Lanphere-Hinrichs Co. upon the Black Hills National 

 Forest, which resulted in damages of $3,469.72 to the United States, was settled by 

 the tender of $3,000 and the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture on May 

 14, 1913, that the sum be accepted. 



