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SPECIAL-USE PEBMIT HELD OF FULL FORCE AND EFFECT. Le Roy and Wilson 

 brought suit against H. F. Swanson in the county court of Clear Creek County, Colo., to 

 eject Swanson from land in the Pike National Forest which Swanson was occupying 

 under a special-use permit. The plaintiffs had located mining claims and a mill 

 site covering the land so held by Swanson subsequent to the issuance of the permit. 

 In January the United States attorney filed with the court suggestions setting out 

 the interests of the Government and the court held that the special-use permit was 

 in full force and effect, and that the defendant Swanson was entitled to the use, 

 possession, and occupation of the land described in the permit. 



A bill was filed in the circuit court seeking to enjoin the Henrylyn irrigation dis- 

 trict, Inter-Mountain Water Co., and J. A. Mcllwee from constructing a tunnel on 

 the Pike and the Arapaho National Forests, through the Continental Divide, without 

 a permit. 



On March 7 complaint was filed in the Federal district court of Colorado seeking 

 to enjoin the Wagon Wheel Gap Improvement Co. and Ellwood Bergey from closing 

 a public highway to timber purchasers from the Government. 



Suit formerly instituted against J. G. La Sarre in the northern district of Illinois 

 for starting a fire on the Sundance National Forest was transferred to the district 

 of South Dakota, and the United States attorney authorized to accept $116.10 offered 

 by defendant in full settlement. 



In November the Secretary transmitted to the Postmaster General the facts in 

 connection with the use, by C. J. Patton, of the United States mails in furtherance 

 of a fraudulent scheme in connection with lieu-land selections in the Harney National 

 Forest. 



Law Cases in District 3 



On January 16, 1912, a temporary injunction was issued against George W. Hance 

 restraining him from grazing cattle on the Prescott National Forest. 



On January 15 the United States grand jury at Fort Smith, Ark., indicted William 

 H. Brashears for making and presenting a false claim against the Government. 



F. L. KIRBY, CHARGED WITH MURDER, RELEASED. On February 1, F. L. Kirby, 

 assistant forest ranger on the Crook National Forest, was arrested for murder. At 

 the hearing, February 3, it appeared that the killing was done in self-defense while 

 Kirby was engaged in the performance of his official duties. Kirby was released. 



On March 18, 1912, the United States attorney, East Las Vegas, N. Mex., reported 

 that the referee in the case of the United States v. Margarito Romero, timber trespass 

 on the Pecos National Forest, had filed his report recommending an injunction, 

 together with damages in the sum of $100. 



Law Cases in District 4 



George Bostas, charged with grazing trespass on lands reserved for the Pocatello, 

 Idaho, watershed, pleaded guilty March 14, and was fined $25. Elmer Lapray, 

 charged with grazing trespass on the Pocatello National Forest, pleaded guilty and 

 was fined $25. Andrew Ross, jr., a minor, charged with fire trespass on the Fillmore 

 National Forest, was fined $5 and costs by a justice of the peace. 



In the suit against Philip Walston to recover damages for fire trespass on the 

 Weiser National Forest the jury returned a verdict for the defendant. 



