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full settlement of the trespass against them. The company had previously paid 

 $440.65 in part payment. 



United States v. F. A. Gaylord, grazing trespass, Wallowa National Forest; closed 

 February 6 on payment of $45 by the trespasser, the amount being a compromise of 

 suit instituted for $23.43 actual and $50 punitive damages. 



United States v. Antone Kestner and wife, fire trespass, Olympic National Forest. 

 Defendants were indicted February 5, 1913, under sections 52 and 53 of the Penal 

 Code. February 24 Mrs. Kestner pleaded guilty and the case against her husband 

 was dismissed. The court fined Mrs. Kestner $75 without costs. The civil case for 

 damages to the amount of $1,629.94 is still pending. 



OPERATION. 

 Notice of Reward 



OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, 

 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 



March 1, 1913. 



Hereafter, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1913, and thereafter, unless other- 

 wise ordered, provided Congress shall make the necessary appropriation or authorize 

 the payment thereof, the Department of Agriculture will pay not exceeding $100 and 

 not less than $25, for information leading to the arrest and conviction in any United 

 States court of any person charged with destroying or stealing any property of the 

 United States within the custody of the Forester, Forest Service, United States 

 Department pf Agriculture. 



This reward will be paid to the person or persons giving the information leading to 

 such arrest or conviction upon presentation to the Department of Agriculture of satis- 

 factory evidence thereof, subject to the necessary appropriation as aforesaid or other- 

 wise as may be provided. 



Officers and employees in the Department of Agriculture are barred from receiving 

 such rewards. 



The Department of Agriculture reserves the right to refuse payment of any claim for 

 reward when, in its opinion, there has been collusion or improper methods used to 

 secure arrest and conviction, and to allow only one reward where several persons have 

 been convicted of the same offense or where one person has been convicted of several 

 offenses, unless the circumstances have entitled the person to a reward on each 

 conviction. 



Applications for reward, made in pursuance of the above notice, should be* for- 

 warded to the Forester, Washington, D. C., but no claim will be considered unless 

 presented within three months from the date of the conviction of an offender. In 

 order that all claimants for rewards may have opportunity to present their claim 

 within the prescribed limit, the department will not take action with respect to 

 rewards for three months from the date of the conviction of an offender. 



JAMES WILSON, 

 Secretary of Agriculture. 

 Schedule of Supplies for Ogden Supply Depot 



The Forest Service Supply Depot, Ogden, Utah, will have its own contract schedule 

 of supplies for the next fiscal year. Bids for furnishing these supplies will be opened 



