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Show AH IMPORTANT LAND CASE. i ' Secretary Me Smtth Renders Ills Decision. urn uiorstMis or aches In Southern California Opened for Lulry and Settlement. Olnr Items. WASltlNOTOi, Hutch 24 Bectclury Hoke Bmlth today rendered 111- '' land decision. It was tho case of tbo Houthern l'aclflo railroad Involving ttia question of tho Unlit of that com. puny to lands wllliln IU granted limits ndthe limits of the grantto the At-lantlo At-lantlo and l'aclflo railroad, basing lt claim on tho ground that the latter company never compiled with tho requirement of the grant, In the matter of locating III road, and thus forfeited III grant. The Mcretiry holes, however, 'that the Southern l'aelfls company hud acquired no title I to the landa In question under lt Crant. Thin decision operatea to open tueie laudf, aggregating tunny thou sands of ncrea In Houthern California to seltlemeot and entry. The commla-aloner commla-aloner of tho general land cilice 11 accordingly directed to tako tho steps necessary to restore them lu the publio domain. |