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jury returned a verdict of not guilty. The court instructed the jury 

 that in determining claimant's jjood faith they might take into considera- 

 tion the fact that he had pend'iig before the Interior Department a peti- 

 tion for the exercise of the supervisory authority of the Secretary. The 

 court instructed the jury, however, that the claimant had no right on 

 the land after service of the decision of the Secretary of the Interior 

 denying his motion for a rehearing. 



United States v. James York : Occupancy trespass, Tongass National 

 Forest. December 8 received notice from the United States attorney, 

 Juneau, Alaska, that the case had been closed on payment by the 

 trespasser of the fine of $25 a year for four years, during which time 

 defendant had occupied Sumduni Island as a fox ranch. 



United States v. Hartford & Eastern Railway Co. : Rates on logs, 

 Snoqualmie National Forest. September 10 petition was filed with the 

 Public Service Commission of Washington to require defendants to 

 establish a rate on logs from certain points on its railroad to Hart- 

 ford Junction witfi the Northern Pacific. Hearing held at Monte Cristo, 

 Wash., December 1, and the defendants directed to establish rates 

 requested. 



United States v. Elmo Neil : Grazing trespass, Crater National Forest. 

 November 9 trespasser paid $9 actual damage and $50 punitive dam- 

 ages. Case closed. 



United States v. S. P. Beecher : Fire trespass, Wenatchee National 

 Forest. December 10 trespasser plead guilty in the superior court of 

 Chelan County and was fined $10. 



United States v. Thomas Nolan, Bob Solen, and E. A. Matson : Con- 

 spiracy to destroy property of the United States. The defendants 

 were indicted October 31 by the Federal grand jury for the western 

 district of Washington for conspiracy to violate sections 49 and 52 

 of the Penal Code and were tried before the United States court for 

 said district December 13 to 18, inclusive. The jury returned a 

 verdict of guilty. Sentence has not yet been passed. The action was 

 instituted by the supervisor of the Snoqualmie National Forest and 

 the Snow Creek Logging Co., purchasers of National Forest timber 

 on the Olympic National Forest. The testimony showed that the de- 

 fendants, members- of the I. W. W., went to the Snow Creek logging 

 cainp August 22, where a severe fire had broken out July 14, and made 

 such representations to the men who were fighting the fire that about 

 one-half of the 40 men who remained after the strike of July 18 dis- 

 continued fighting fire and left on the following morning, after which 

 the fire continued to burn for several weeks, destroying additional 

 Government timber. The defense was that the men went to the camp 

 for the purpose of informing the men that they should remain there 

 and continue fighting the fire. 



