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Timber Tre*pa«**r» In *1 inn#**ot».The Secretary of the interior has transmitter! to the? attorney general paper* j of the United State* district attorney of ImMinnesota in relation to theeuit pending against t*e Gall River Lumber Com- j pany of Minnesota for tin; cutting of 704.000 feet of lumber from the public land s of Minnesota. The districtAttorney says that the company offer* to;ompromise by paying per 1,000 feetThe weeret ary, \n his letter to the attorney jeners), says;1 ri view of all the facts in the case, an no me concession to the company's claim that it did not intend to approprate the government timber, and to avoid delay and litigation in the settlement of the cane, this department will eonsider favorably a proposition by the company to settle the trespass upon the payment of $5 p**r $1,000 feet for the tim-tier, amounting to 7‘.*4, 000 feet, if thisium in not paid, then the law had better take its course, if this case of trespass were the only one in which this companyw w msere implicated, and the amount of tim-aer mere not so large, more favorable terms might be considered; but the fact shows a great and continued disregard for the property rights of the government.The Ramsey county democrats have
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Brainerd Dispatch
Brainerd, Minnesota, US
Fri, Oct 22, 1886
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