SERVICE NOTES FOR JUNE. 



These notes contain instructions and necessary information for 

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

 for reference. 



OFFICE OF THE FORESTER. 



Revised Edition of The Use Book 



The revised edition of The Use Book, containing the new regulations which go 

 into effect July 1, 1908, will be in the hands of supervisors by June 30. Super- 

 visors will be expected to familiarize themselves immediately with the changed 

 and added regulations. 



Minnesota National Forest 



Eugene S. Bruce, Expert Lumberman in the Office of the Forester, has been 

 relieved, at his own request, from the position of inspector of logging done 

 under the Forester's " Rules and Regulations " on the Minnesota National 

 Forest, to which position he was appointed December 31, 1903. 



LAW. 



Legal Proceedings Recommended 



Cabinet (S) National Forest C. R. Weare et al. ; saloon trespass. 



Hell Gate (E) National Forest Fleetwood Sothcott; saloon trespass. 



Little Belt National Forest John W. O'Brien; timber trespass. 



Monterey National Forest Henry F. Melville; girdling trees on his mining 

 claim (criminal). 



Shasta National Forest Trinity Bonanza King Mining Co.; timber trespass. 



Washington (Chelan) National Forest Holcomb and Prewitt; timber tres- 

 pass. 



Conviction Secured 



Hell Gate (E) National Forest Nels Saudberg, illegal enclosure; pleaded 

 guilty and was released upon payment of fine. 



Preliminary Decision, in Case Against Fred Light 



In the grazing trespass case (injunction) against Fred Light (Holy Cross 

 National Forest) a preliminary decision was rendered on April 29, 1908, by 

 Judge Lewis, of the United States circuit court for Colorado, overruling the 

 trespasser's demurrer to the bill filed by the Government. This case was 

 brought in pursuance of an agreement made in June, 1907, at Denver, between 

 officers of the Service and representatives of the Colorado Cattle and Horse 

 Growers Association, for the purpose of testing whether the National Forests 

 are subject to State fence laws. In the meantime the same question was de- 

 cided in favor of the Government in the Shannon case. by the United States 

 circuit court of appeals, at San Francisco. Mr. Light's attorneys argued that 

 the permanent reservation of National Forests in Colorado without the consent 

 of the State was unconstitutional; that the State fence laws applied to National 



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