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Show oo j " FARMERS WIN, AN ' ; - T I IMPORTANT SUIT '' ! I San Francisco, Jan. 11. On motion , l H of the plaintiff four cases of vitaL lm- J! H portance to the owners of 156,500 F ' L acres of valuable farming land )In t i I 'mW j morthern California counties, were , t L dismissed today In the United States til, ( 1 , district court here. The complaints r ' M wore filed twelve years ago by tho I " 1 H Atlantic, Gulf & Pacific company of til l West Virginia to recover from the I 'IM land owners of the Central Irrigation I H district $576,000 with interest, tho to- I . JLLX tal amount aggregating more than !t!H $1,000,000 in irrigation bonds alleged t iVmmm to have been issued under an act of 11 the legislature approved March -7, It mI 1SS7. j J OH The' suits were resisted by property IIH owners on the ground that the district i i lll had not been properly organized and 1 J jH that there was fraud in tho transfer j f H of thc bonds. It was alleged that the( , i V 1 company was using tho bonds asj al j hH club to compel owners to sell their U M holdings at a low price. . v.-- . 7 f |