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LAW. 



OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR. 



Law Cases in District 1 



At the May term of the United States district court for the district of Idaho in- 

 dictments were returned against Fred Danke and George, alias Fuzzy, Reed, for 

 having unlawfully conducted a saloon business upon an unperfected mining claim 

 within the St. Joe National Forest. Danke entered a plea of guilty and was sen- 

 tenced to pay a fine of $150 and serve 60 days in jail. Reed was found guilty and 

 sentenced to 60 days in jail. 



At the May term of the United States district court for the district of Montana, 

 in the case of the United States v. G. D. Gorus, timber trespass on the Bitterroot 

 National Forest, the court directed a verdict for plaintiff to the amount of the value 

 of the timber after it was cut at the place where cut. The court based its instruc- 

 tions on the case of U. S. v. St. Anthony R. R. Co. (192 U. S., 524; 48 L. Ed., 548). 



Law Cases in District 2 



Suit was filed in the United States district court for Colorado for an injunction 

 to restrain the Central Colorado Power Co. from occupying certain land in the Holy 

 Cross National Forest with tunnels and pipe lines without first obtaining a permit 

 from the Secretary of Agriculture. 



T. H. Vance paid to the district attorney, on account of the United States, the sum 

 of $150 in settlement of a timber trespass on the basis of willfulness, the punitive 

 damages being waived. 



Ben Rishor, charged with obtaining from the United States mails a letter addressed 

 to another, containing a check of the district fiscal agent, then cashing it and appro" 

 printing the proceeds to his own use, was tried in the United States district court on 

 May 23, at Deadwood, S. Dak., and acquitted. 



The case of the United States v. the Newcastle Land & Live Stock Co. for damages 

 resulting from grazing sheep without a permit on the Sundance National Forest, was 

 tried at Cheyenne, Wyo., May 1C, and resulted in a verdict for plaintiff for $351.29 

 and costs. 



On May 23 William Oliver, George Ackerman, W. O. Wilbour, Louis Foolovich, 

 and J. P. Lipsey, on their plea of leaving a fire unattended on the Black Hills National 

 Forest were fined $10 each and costs. 

 Law Cases in District 3 



Barney Oberto was fined $200 and his herders, F. Figueroa, D. Garcia, and P. 

 Lente, $1 each for grazing trespass on the Tonto National Forest; Miguel Cruz was 

 sentenced to 20 days in jail for cutting firewood without permit on the Coronado; 

 C. H. Brown was fined $200 and his herder, Bonifacio Duran, $25 for grazing trespass 

 on the Tonto; John Revello was fined $50 for maintaining a saloon on an unperfected 

 claim on the Prescott; judgment for $472.35 was rendered against Margarito Romero 

 for timber trespass on the Pecos; for grazing trespass on the Alamo, J. J. Mills con- 

 fessed judgment for $91.64, Eugene Joy for $101.60, and W. F. Montgomery for $169.55. 



William Brashears, charged with presenting a false claim of $2.70 against the Gov- 

 ernment, Ozark National Forest, was tried and fou not guilty. 



