Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-09-04

Walter W. Vrooman, son of Judge h.
p. yrooman, of Topeka, and, being fifteen
wears old. will lecture on phrcnology to-
night at Asks Hail. He lectured on Satur-
day night at Newton to a crowded house.
He charges TWENTY-FIVE cents admission.
While the rest of the city has been rather
quiet for several days, the police judge has
been doing rushing business. The cases
brought before him yesterday embraced four
saloon keepers, who paid in fines S26o, nine
inmates of bawdy houses, each fined $40; one
case Of drunkenness S. and one fine for car
rying concealed weapons. In all aggregat-
ing $500.
Col. Dyer, the L. S. Indian agent for the
Arrapahoes and Cheyennes. who is in the
city attending the IS. court, made US a
pleasant call yesterday morning Quite a
number Of the colonel's red wards tricked
out in their gay blankets, feathers and beads
are here also. Col. ID. before returning will
90 to Topeka and Kansas City on business
connected with the affairs of his agency.
The giant Indian, Washefishe, is quite a
dude with his white eagles wing fan and
cigarette. He said Yesterday on the witness
stand that if he told lie or broke his oath,
that the.Great Spirit would scold him. He
| is brother TO the chief, Black Bird, who
smiles when his name is spoken, that being
the extent of his English education. He
parts his hair in the middle and wears it
flowing over bis shoulder.
J. ID. Houston, Esq, who has been urged
by large number of his friends to become
candidate for county attorney, finds it
practically impossible to take the field.
Such step would not only disturb his pres
ent professional relations but seriously COM
promise the business of the legal firm Of
which he is a member. As we understand
il, 30 far as he is concerned, he leaves the
field but stands reays to put in his best ticks
for the Republican nominee, whoever he
may be.
The people Of this city are promised to-
night an unique entertainment in the way Of
lecture by iifteen-year-old boy on a sci
entific subject. This lecture is no committed
to-memory, parrot-talk affair, but genu-
inelv instructive discourse. w. w. Nroo-
man, son of Judge Nrooman, Of Topeka,
at the age of five years took to the science of
phrenology just as Blind Tom took to music.
He feels heads, and reads character as read
lily as you read book; gives charts. answers
questions etc. He holds forth at Asks Hall.
Adults - cents, children II cents. He tool,
ia the Mormons and Chinese heads at Utah
hast .pring and the papers speak highly of
bis genius.
The Sedgwick county fruit exhibit for the
state fair, and the Cincinnati exposition, is
assuming mammoth proportions. Mr..
Mosor, assisted by Gilman, Blood and Cary
Davis, have been at work for week solicit
ing aud collecting fruit. About half of the
entire amount 10 he exhibited is now at the
real estate office of Jocelyn Il Thomas. The
size Of the fruit viii be surprise TO anyone
not familiar with the products of this coui-
". The finest fruit Is packed away out of
sight, but one apple laying on top--a scrub,
So to -peak-measurcd fourteen inches in
circumference. Mr. Mo,er SAYS he has nine
apple in the collection. which will fill a
peck mcasuIc 'heapcd mp and running
over
Mr. Charles Snitzlcr feels very much az
grieved over an item appearing in ye,ter-
day evenings Beacon, which he thinks re-
fleets upon hi, manhood The horse was
not beaten nor in any way cruelty treated,
nor did any neighbor threaten arrest, for his
neighbor and one Of the Root brothers help
ed him get the horse up, which being young
and unframed. had got down in his harness.
Mr.. SwitZler j. "a humane man, and would
abuse no dumb brute, much less very val
liable colt, for which he paid one hundred
and eighty dollars. and he desires a correc-
ton Of any misapprehcnsion to which the
article alluded to. may have led those who
heard that il was his horse which was re-
fcrred TO-
Miss Julia Barwise, who goes To take
charge of her school ten miles south Of
town Monday, gave a farewell party to her
Presbyterian class Of Sunday school schol-
Yesterday. The afternoon was devoted to
such pleasures as are highly enjoyable to
little ones, none of whom ever seemed hap
pier than on this occasion. At about five
O'Clock they all repaired to the dining room,
where a very nice supper was spread for
their disposal, and to which they all
did hearty justice. About nm hour later
they bade their kind hostess an afiectionate
adietl, deeply regretting that they must part
with So faithful Il teacher.
The two cottonwood bushes or sprouts
which are growing side by side on the top of
one of the street sprinkling tanks, attract no
little attention. They might be classcd AS
coming under the head of a..freak. so tenac-
iously do they hold on and flourish and
grow, as they are daily hauled up and down
the street from carly morning till night.
They are but another evidence of how trees
of all kinds, and vegetation of every charac-
ter grow in this valley. Some people think
that they are simply a couple of limbs stuck
up there for ornament. But that is a mis-
take. The trees are growing. The seeds
Were blown there by the spring winds, and
lodged and terminated. The rootlets laid
hold Of the wet wood, and ran down into the
seams of the turks: and in wear or two
more the tops will reach to the hight of the
buildings upon either side, and the roots
viii have, no doubt, absorbed the tank:
tracks and maybe horses and driver.
Many inquiries have been made concern
Ing the prospects for building the Wichita,
Mcpherson X Denver railroad. Upon max
ing inquiry of one of the projectors our re-
porter learned that the company is now
proposition made by ST. Louis
parties for the building of the first section of
the line: that several propositions have been
made them, and tina; probably one of them
viii be accepted. Matters have been some
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