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tion on technical or administrative activities of the Service which may 

 interest the States. It will be understood that information contained 

 in such letters will not be published by the States, so that tentative 

 results can be given. 



All branches and offices will send to the Office of State Cooperation 

 monthly reports and other material of special interest suitable to be 

 included in such letters, with suggestions, preferably in the form of 

 memoranda, as to special features therein which should be men- 

 tioned. Such material will there be abstracted and incorporated into 

 the letters, together with similar material collected from the States. 



Information on district activities obtained from monthly and other 

 reports will be used from time to time ; and district foresters are asked 

 to aid the Office of State Cooperation by suggesting or forwarding other 

 material whose use in the periodic letters would be desirable. 



LAW. 



OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR. 



Law Cases in District 1 



United States v. Harry I. Babbitt : Timber trespass, civil, Helena 

 National Forest. Case closed upon receipt of $115.80, value of timber 

 cut. 



United States v. Fred C. Burks : Timber trespass, civil, Missoula 

 National Forest. Case settled upon payment of $40, value of timber 

 cut. 



United States v. Fischer & Hample : Grazing trespass, civil, Beaver- 

 head National Forest. Case closed upon payment of $7.15, value of 

 forage consumed. 



United States v. Great Northern Railway Co., Winston Brothers 

 Co., and C. W. Werdenhoff : Fire trespass, Lewis and Clark National 

 Forest. Government's motion to strike from defendants' amended an- 

 swer overruled by Judge Bourquin May 5, 1916. Government's reply 

 brief to amended answer filed May 26, 1916. June 20, 1916, defend- 

 ants filed demurrer and motion to strike from Government's reply to 

 amended answer. 



United States v. Philip Link : Occupancy trespass, Coeur d'Alene 

 National Forest. Letter prepared for signature of district forester 

 advising Link that he would be required to vacate the premises by 

 July 1, 1916. Complaint prepared for institution of injunction pro- 

 ceedings. 



Law Cases in District 2 



United States v. C. M. Boyd : Fire trespass, Holy Cross National 

 Forest. Case closed upon payment of $39.48. 



United States v. John H. Burnside : Grazing trespass, Kansas Na- 

 tional Forest. Settled by payment of $13.25. 



