Suits Against Ninety-seven Farmers

New Yokk, May 23. - A Kansas City special says: Suits have been begun in the Uuited States court at Denver, Col. , against ninety-seven farmers in the best part of the San Luis valley, the lands being claimed by a Dutch company called The United States FreehoM Land and Emigration company. The suits inyolve half a dozen villages, including San Luis, the eounty seat of Costilla county. Tho company bought 500,000 acres of land in the Beaubein grant flfteen years ago froni Governor Gilpin for $500,000. The grant was originally made to Charles BeauBien by the governor of New Mexico for a team of liorses aud a buggy.