Show HOTEL GOSSIP C M Wellman the expert delinquent tax collector who hails from the Hoosier I state was at the Walker last evening He had just rotumext from a sort of Sher I lock Holmes expedition into the wilds surrounding sur-rounding Motvtpeiler Ida and was rue sc cefastul in locating the recipients of small I fortunes loaned bv a faxdodger in In diana It Is Mr Wellmans vocation to ctrJ I make contracts with f state boards tgr tax I commissioners to look up property that is I escaping taxes and bring the evading I genius to terms I is a good paying business busi-ness but the duties are onerous and fatiguing I fa-tiguing and there are more than a thousand thou-sand ways in which to become embroiled in trouble while pursuing the whio pUruing squirming nontaxpayers guns and threats of extermination I I ex-termination are a frequent In the course of a years work as mosquitoes arc said I I to be in Jersey i Mr AVellman tcok in the agricultural I conditions il > the vicinity of Montpelier I between whiles ojid had this to say about I I them The tovWi Is situated in a rich tecUon which extends for n good many i miles down the Bettr River valley In tho Immediate vicinity of Montpeller the soil I I Is under cultivation ant makes a fair i return for tho time and labor expended upon It but farther down ar valley the abandoned look due to absence of irriga I I lon is evident on all sides A little attention I atten-tion to It would soon produce wonderful leoults The peoplo arc not over enthusiastic enthus-iastic about the qountry They claim that I I tho winter season begins too early and continues too long I TV H Turner tho feather man of Chicago Chi-cago Is at the Knutsford Mr Turner I Is an authority on plumage and knows an I about the business from the combination I cf feathers wIth tarwhich he I tar says is the I most effective method of removing objectionable objec-tionable characters from a neighborhood to the waving ostrich plumes that betoken I be-token the approach of a devotee of fashIon fash-Ion Ip Mr Turners opinion fine feathers I may not make fine birds but they do maRe fins hats for womenfolk and depleted I de-pleted bank accounts for the men who are I cajoled and wheedled into paying for them Feathers come from all over the world and the principle supply houses employ superintendents ant natives in to lively I pastime of sprinkdng salt on birds tails th Ji they catch the bird extroc this tall I decorations treat them with arsenical preparations to keep the plumage Intapt and ship them to the d > e houses Otvnch plumes are tho most popular and quite expensive because they come from great distances The ostrich IsTeported as b lnr the biggest fool bird alive They gay ho sticks his head In the sand and consoles con-soles himself with the reflection tnat because be-cause he cant see the hunters they cant see him Mr Turner thinks that there are human piototypes of the fool bird that some people arc everlastingly fooling themselves In the same way Thomas RIley of Omaha is a the Cullen Cul-len Mr Riley dispenses good cheer in small flasks and large bottles and sometimes I some-times he ships It by the barrel full The sale of whisky is keeping up with the procession duo to prosperous times and In most towns it Is rlgnt along with the band wagon The Walker R F JulKson Ogden C C Green Silver City Mrs g LI Peck ham and son Blackwell Okla Mrs H Weldon Tucker Nov J P Rellly Potts yule Pa H A Ayers Chicago J rJ Pots Greenfield Intt J B Wing Wood side P C Rasmorse San Francisco J B Taylor Blugham A D MomJock New York J A Barton Boston Thd Knutsford W I Alexander Omaha L A Soollleld New York M J Maloney S1 Joe C R Kelsey Mountain Home Ida W H Turner Chicago Ernest Nosworthy Denver Air and Mrs R K Marshall NOT York Mr and Mrs W R Korrell Chicago Mr and Mrs E < J Scharps Isew York B H Goddard < Ogden Mr and Mrs P P Van Vloet Memphis William E Hill Now York F W Calkins R D Hunter Denver D O Anderson St Louis A E > De Rlcglea 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