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Injunction 



On October 29, Judge Lewis, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Dis- 

 trict of Colorado, granted a temporary restraining order against the Telluride Power 

 Company, of Telluride, Colo., enjoining the construction of a ditch across the 

 Montezuma National Forest without permit. By agreement of counsel the tem- 

 porary restraining order remained in effect pending the final decision of the court as 

 to the right of the Government to require such permit. By agreement the ease will 

 he submitted to the court on an agreed statement of facts. 

 Fire Trespass 



The sum of $6,71)1.90 has been deposited with the Secretary of the Treasury by the 

 ('hie-ago, Burlington and Qnincy Railroad in settlement of a suit begun June 3, 1910, 

 fur the recovery of timber and young growth injured and destroyed on the Black Hills 

 National Forest in 190S by a fire set by the engines of the Railroad Company. This 

 sum includes special damages on account of services of oflicers and enlisted men in 

 fighting the fire and ?M.!M) as costs in the case. 

 Timber Sale: United States Intervener 



The United States Attorney for the District of South Dakota has been authorized 

 by the Attorney (leneral to appear for and represent James Berryman, a timber-sale 

 purchaser of certain timber on the Black Hills National Forest, in a suit brought 

 against him by James Brodie, a mineral claimant, on whose claim part of the timber 

 soldto Berryman was located. The timber sold to Berryman was fire-killed. Brodie 

 brought suit against Berryman for the value of the manufactured form of the timber 

 taken from his mining claim. 

 Indicted for Fire Trespass 



At the October term of the District Court of the United States for the District of 

 Oregon the Grand Jury indicted Taylor Bailey and Dol Moore, of Gold Hill, Oreg., for 

 setting fire on the Crater National Forest. They were promptly arrested by the 

 United States Marshal and subsequently released, bail being furnished in the sum of 

 1760, 



OPERATION 



Political Activity, and Political Assessments or Contributions 



In General Order No. 142, dated October 1, 1910, the Secretary of Agriculture 

 called attention to the following rules and regulations of the Civil Service Commission 

 peri aining to partisan political activity or political assessments or contributions by 

 oiliceholdejs, and enjoining all employees of the Department to adhere strictly 

 t hereto: 



1. POLITICAL ACTIVITY. Rule I, section 1, of the Civil Service Rules reads as 

 follows: 



No person in the executive civil service shall use his official authority or influ- 

 ence for the purpose of interfering with an election or affecting the result thereof. 

 Persons who by the provisions of these rules are in the competitive classified 

 service, while retaining the right to vote as they please and to express privately 

 their opinions on all political subjects, shall take no active part in political man- 

 agement or in political campaigns. 



