Show says say the bicycle kill hill saloon collector mize of the internal revenue office estimates that there will be a falling off in the number of chicago saloons for the coming year the annual prepayment of the special tax on saloons Is due july 1 for the last week there has been quite a run on the collectors office but not nearly as aa many applicants as in former years the indications point to a dropping oft off of about 1000 saloons from the number carried on the books last year the brewers trust by the weeding out pro cess it adopted some time ago is said to have had considerable to do with the falling off but the bicycle craze the collector thinks has affected the saloon trade to the closing up of several hundred saloons |