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The Attorney General has filed a petition of intervention in a case 

 brought by the Boise Lumber Co. against the Oregon Short Line and 

 the Pacific & Idaho Northern Railroad Co., asking the Interstate Com- 

 merce Commission to reduce freight rates on logs from points in the 

 Payette and Weiser National Forests into Boise, Idaho. A petition of 

 intervention has also been filed by the State of Idaho on behalf of the 

 public utilities commission of that State and also on behalf of the State 

 board of land commissioners, the State being the owner of a consider- 

 able body of standing timber which would be affected by the rates. 

 The hearing is set for about June 15, 1914, at Boise, Idaho. 

 Law Gases in District 5 



A timber trespass of the Verdi Lumber Co., on the Tahoe National 

 Forest, was settled by the payment of $318.60. 



A timber trespass of the Swayne Lumber Co., on the Plumas National 

 Forest, was settled by payment of $303.88. 



Payment in full in the sum of $111.48 was made in settlement of a 

 timber trespass of J. J. Potter on the Modoc National Forest. 



R. M. Diggs settled two grazing trespass cases by the payment of the 

 respective sums of $68.75 damages and $9.50 costs and $47.12 dam- 

 ages and $23.35 costs. A decree of perpetual injunction was also 

 entered in both cases by consent of the defendant. 



Do Ohtart and L. Lopeteguy settled their grazing trespass, on the 

 Kern National Forest, by the payment of actual damages in the sum 

 of $12.34. These parties previously plead guilty to a criminal charge 

 in the same trespass and were fined. 



Settlement for grazing trespass on the Mono National Forest, in 

 amount $86.40, was made by F. W. Simpson. 



Settlement for grazing trespass on the Mono National Forest, in 

 amount $82.80, was made by C. E. Wedertz. 

 Law Case in District 6 



On February 4, 1914, the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth 

 District reversed the decision of Judge Wolverton in the case of the 

 United States v. E. J. Cowlishaw et al., and held that in this case the 

 State of Oregon took title to the school section involved, which was 

 embraced in national forest withdrawal subsequent to the survey in the 

 field and approval thereof by the surveyor general for Oregon, but 

 prior to the acceptance of the survey by the Commissioner of the Gen- 

 eral Land Office, Judge Gilbert dissenting. The decision was not based 

 upon the nature of the grant, but it held that a sufficient survey had 

 been made at the time of the withdrawal to except it therefrom and 

 vest title in the State. Appeal is now being prepared to the Supreme 

 Court of the United States. 



