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Show JOCELYN'S TOUGH LUCK. COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo., Dec. 20. A letter ba hern received by attorneys hi re announcing that the claim of e. s. jocf ivn of this city against tho Government Govern-ment for S1S0O, for deprivation of tho usi of the claimant s farm on the Columbia river In 1896 lfcW and 1S;,7 Is to be paid out of in appropriation to be passed bj the resent Congress Purmg the years mentioned the c laimant s land was used as a military station by United States troops, which were engaged in suppress-lng suppress-lng an Indian outbreak In tho half cen-torv cen-torv thai has Intervened Jocelyn had hep engaged n pushing his claim nt the dav that th lltr announcing that ii would be paid was written Jocelyn died, and the claim will be paid to the W idow . |