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the damagesfand cost of fighting fires was estimated at $36,695, which included 

 $17,900 for young growth, $5,059 for merchantable timber, and $13,736 for fighting 

 fires, has, upon recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture, been settled by the 

 Treasury Department upon the payment of $25,000. 

 Law Cases in District 3 



Suits for the collection of civil damages were decided in favor of the Forest 

 Service as follows: 



Elihu Joy, grazing trespass upon Alamo National Forest, $528.45 actual damages, 

 $322.70 costs of suit, permanent injunction; Sam B. Smith, grazing trespass upon 

 Alamo National Forest, $48 actual damages and costs; Ed Burlinson, grazing trespass, 

 Alamo National Forest, $31.50 actual damages, $81.60 costs, permanent injunction; 

 W. W. Varner, grazing trespass Alamo National Forest, $47 actual damages, costs 

 $29.85; J. W. Jones, grazing trespass upon Alamo National Forest, $145 damages and 



UNITED STATES v. J. W. VANWINKLE (CRIMINAL). Indicted for willfully grazing 

 .stock upon National Forest reserves. On October 23, 1911, defendant entered a plea 

 of guilty and was fined $100 and costs amounting to $35.20 and sentenced to three 

 months in jail, the jail sentence being suspended during good behavior. In passing 

 sentence in this case the court took occasion to remark upon the beneficence of the 

 work done by the Forest Service and the necessity of the citizens complying fully 

 with the law and the regulations governing National Forests, and stated in unmis- 

 takable language that the next violator of the law or the regulations brought before 

 him for sentence on a criminal charge would not escape with such a light penalty. 

 Law Cases in District 4 



Cases reported to the Department of Justice were settled upon payments as follows: 

 Wadley Brothers, two suits grazing, trespass Wasatch National Forest, $70.43 actual 

 damages, $75 punitive damages, $40 costs; Roy Hales, grazing trespass Pocatello 

 National Forest, $31.50 actual damages, $25 punitive damages, $33.50 costs; John M. 

 Pulsipher, grazing trespass upon Dixie National Forest, $62.33 actual damages, $25 

 punitive damages, and $48.50 costs. 



Law Case in District 5 



Indictment was returned by the Federal grand jury at Fresno, Cal., against T. R. 

 Cummings for willfully setting fire to timber and underbrush on the Sierra National 

 Forest. 

 Law Cases in District 6 



The Federal grand jury on November 2, 1910, returned indictment against Taylor 

 Bailey and Dol Moore for lighting a camp fire on public domain. On October 9, 1911, 

 defendants were found guilty and fined $10 each and costs amounting to $45. 



George Filisiano and J. P. Stevens, arrested July 29, 1911, for setting a fire in the 

 Olympic National Forest and held under bond of $500 each, later indicted by the 

 Federal grand jury, were tried September 29, 1911, and sentenced to serve three months 

 in Kings County jail at Seattle, Wash. 



UNITED STATES v. ADAMS DOWLING KING. Indictment returned by Federal 

 grand jury March 22, 1911. Defendants were tried October 9, 1911, found guilty and 

 fined $10 each and costs amounting to $45. 



