The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-23

mans voice say, shut up.' He ran
the faster.
and heard the cries for help coming
from the inside. He ran up the front
stairs, opened the door at the top and
rushed in. There was no one there. He
heard the screams down stairs and he
rushed back down the stairs.
He burst into the front room of the
building. He heard the cries in a back
room. He could not force the door. He
rushed out into the street and around
the building. The back door was locked
and he could not break it open.
All this time the cries of agony and
threats in a deeper voice could be
heard from the inside. He ran to the
front again and blew his police whistle
long, loud blow. He received assist
ance quickly from the officer on the
next beat. Together they threw their
combined weight on the front door but
it would not yield. The cries were be-
coming weaker and weaker
They rushed to the back door and
could only hear the means of the vic
tim. They tried to force the back door
and failed. A crowd had gathered and
one suggested a battering ram. A
wagon tongue was lying in the back
yard. A rush was made for it. Willing
hands grasped it and rushed with it
toward the door.
with a crash and the officers heard a
fendiSh chuckle and looked toward the
corner of the room just in time to see a
parrot fly out the door that had been
broken in. The bird perched on a tree and
laughed. The mistress of the house
came home and instead of blaming the
bird wanted the officers to pay for the
door and all this time the parrot was
saying, "Smarty, left me locked up,
didn't your
Whoever said this was the first time
golf was ever played in Kansas is de-
rrf1s mt
nights ago as he sat on the top of
post on the edge of the Keith tract and
watched the golfers send the little
white balls sailing through the air.
Years ago when the Indians We're
roaming over the country here they
played game called bufaole and they
used crooked limbs from trees for golf
clubs. The balls were round stones ia
ken from the creek beds. III tell you
right now those balls used to get all
broken up too. The eaddies rode on
ponies and had to make pretty good
time to keep from losing sight of the
balls altogether.
1.-THE links were the finest course I'll
bet that were ever laid out in this coun-
try. They commenced at Sawbuck
creek near Lawrence. The 18th hole
was out near Larned. The holes used
were the old buffalo wallows and when
a wallOw was not in just the right place
the InJunS used to go out and get a buff
falo and make him wallow one out
the Shawnees and the Osages and it was
hot match too The worst hazards
of the course was to cross the Arkansas
river and clear Pawnee rock but those
old bucks used to make it right along.
OF course if the ball landed in the river
the caddie had to dive after it.
"The two tribes Joined in the prelim-
mary rounds but the real match finally
settled down between Chippewappaway
of the Osages and White Blackbird of
the Shawnees. They went out over the
course in $500 strokes apiece. 1t was
tie. Coming back they were about two
miles from the last wallow and were
even on 5,2S7 strokes Chippewappaway
was bound to make his approach to the
putting green, which was three miles
square in one stroke. He frightened his
girt and made a mighty swing. If that
stone hasn't stopped it is going yet for
he lost the match because it was never
found and White Blackbird took the
match in three more strokes That was
what called playing golf for the tribes