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fled odd-numbered sections within the primary limits of the Northern Pacific Railway 

 grant, and within the boundaries of the Coeur d'Alene National Forest, until the 

 classification of said sections. The case came on for hearing on May 24, 1911, and the 

 manager of the company appeared and offered to give bond in lieu of a temporary 

 injunction. The court accordingly granted a temporary injunction to take effect 10 

 days from date, unless, in the meantime, the company filed a satisfactory bond in the 

 sum of $20,000 to pay the United States the full value of all timber cut from unclassi- 

 fied odd sections within the Coeur d'Alene National Forest, if the same should be 

 found upon classification to be mineral in character. 



Sale of Timber by State of Idaho from Unsurveyed School Sections within a National 



Forest- 

 United States v. Bonner's Ferry Lumber Co. was an action brought against the 

 defendant company to recover $2,523.36, the value of timber cut by it in trespass from 

 unsurveyed school sections within the Pend Oreille National Forest, under an at- 

 tempted sale made by the State of Idaho to the company. Answer was filed by the 

 attorney general of the State of Idaho, on behalf of the company, setting up the school- 

 land grant to the State and the attempted sale to the company, and also denying 

 certain items of damage. The United States demurred to this answer, and subse- 

 quently filed an amended demurrer. On December 5, 1910, the court sustained the 

 Government's amended demurrer, (U. S. v. Bonner's Ferry Lumber Co., 184 Fed., 

 187), and the defendant, with the consent of the court, filed an amended answer, 

 denying practically all the allegations of the complaint. On May 21, 1911, the assist- 

 ant attorney general for the State of Idaho offered on behalf of the company to com- 

 promise the case by the payment of $2 per thousand for all timber cut in trespass on 

 said sections by the company, and on May 24, 1911, he deposited a certified check for 

 $2,053.90 with the clerk of the court, which was the total value of the timber on the 

 above basis. The case was continued until the compromise could be submitted to 

 the Attorney General of the United States for his approval. In event that the latter 

 approves, judgment will be entered for the United States for the above amount, 

 without costs. 



Law Cases in District 3 



On April 5, 1911, Assistant Forest Rangers Joseph J. Jones and Clinton A. Hodges, 

 of the Datil National Forest, held under bond on a charge of murder, the killing 

 involved having occurred while the forest officers were attempting to arrest one 

 John Latham for violating the stock laws of New Mexico, were released on a writ of 

 habeas corpus, Assistant to the Solicitor R. F. Feagans having assisted the United 

 States attorney in the argument. 



The indictment against A. M. Neal, former forest supervisor of the Alamo National 

 Forest, and six other forest officers, charging them with larceny in removing certain 

 trespassing cattle from the Alamo National Forest, such removal having been made 

 pursuant to the orders of the district forester, was disposed of on demurrer, such 

 demurrer being sustained by the district court at Alamogordo, N. Mex., on March 

 6, 1911. 



On April 13, 1911, the grazing trespass case against J. C. Cady, jr., involving lands 

 within the Alamo National Forest, was settled by the payment of $126. 



