The daily sentinel., 1905-08-07
Big Day for Registration
Continued from Page L.

AAph AiA'A
The total registration for the five
days at the four points is as follows:
I Grand Junction, 6,O3O; Provo, g.
/ l63 Nernal, $40; Price, SOL. Provo
I leads Grand Junction by only 1872.
The Line This Morning.
1 Yesterday the trains coming in
/ from the east brought many people
| and last night the Denver e Rio
/ Grande No. came in in two sec
! tions, while the Midland was com
/ posed of a long string OF cars, each
l heavily loaded In the neighbor-
! hood of 500 people came in on these
trains.
This morning by o'clock the no
taries We're busy filling out affidavits
and all morning these officials had
their hands full.
Shortly after 6 am. the line began
forming at the Auditorium. Just as
soon as man or woman secured his
or her papers a break was made for
the line and by O'Clock over 500
people We're in waiting. The lines
continued to increase and $50 an
actual count made by The Sentinel
reporter showed that COL people We're
in line. 10 is probable tnat when
the doors opened at . o'clock nearly
700 anxious men and women were
waiting to enter their names as ap-
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tab.
All sorts of People.
The line was almost as long as
that of the first day. Il stretched
from the Auditorium doors to the
corner OF Fourth and then down the
latter street to the Windsor cafe. It
was a merry crowd, and everybody
seemed to be getting big share of
fun out of the occasion. There were
D Loo g.. s-H.
dudes, stalwart youths, stately mat
rons. winsome lassies, old maids, wild
ows. both grass and otherwise. There
were Yankees from way down east
colonels from Dixie and old settlers
from the plains OF Kansas, planters
from southern California, mmbermen
from the great northwest and miners
from the great camps of Colorado
all imbued with the hope of securing
piece of fine land in the Uintah.
If "A man was looking for good Op-
portunity to study mankind in all
its phases, he should have given his
attention to that long waiting line
this morning. Some sat on camp
stools and read the daily papers, 9th
ers guyed the map vendors and the
| lemonade men, many kept their
neighbors laughing with jokes while
others lounged on the ground and
said nothing.
Quite a number of the men had
great big bottles filled with soothing
sunshine seasoned fluid that was run
through moss-covered log on a hill
side in old Kentucky fifty long years
| ago. To keep these bottles cool they
we're placed in the irrigation ditch,
and every now and then a strenuous
draft at sight was made upon them.
A registration line is the source of
| hundreds OF amusing incidents.
Thirty men were admitted into the
| Auditorium at time and that big
| line diminished rapidly. However,
a line was in formation until noon,
and the clerks We're kept exceedingly
busy all morning.
About 800 Registered To-day.
At II O'Clock this morning there
| was still a line of waiting people in
! front of the Auditorium The clerks
! had all they could do between the
| hours of O'Clock until about 11:3O
o'clock. From IL o'clock until about
/ half past / ? the rush died down, al
/ though there was pretty steady
stream of people entering the Audi
torium during that time. However,
the noon trains, the Denver & Rio
Grande and the Midland brought in
about 200 people and another line
] quickly formed. At O'Clock about
100 people were in line, and addi-
tions were constantly made How
ever. by pm. the rush for the day
was over, not over 100 registering
after that hour.
AT - O'Clock .019 people had reg
istered, as shown by the count made
by the clerks Chief Clerk Wahly
stated that the total for today would
in all probability exceed that of the
second day and that 1,3OO would
probably be a fair estimate. Several
of the men who have been at the Au-
ditorium during the day think that
the total viii run to 800.
As the excursion rates go on today
and tomorrow in Denver, Colorado
| Springs and other points IL is certain
that the crowds in town tomorrow
and Wednesday will be great. Four
or fve hundred people VIII come in
at midnight tonight The registra-
tion tomorrow viii doubtless equal
/ that of today.