The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-15
TUCKERED The BEAR ALL OUT.
StCH 4 CHASE As mo" COLLIER
GAVE, MT ALL ~ VAIN.
Roosevelt Had Lcf, Mudhoir. After . Long
Wait, When Bruin Game Painting Up
Ready 10 he stabbed. Not Sho,
Plight OF Insurgcnt Correspondents.

SMEDEs. Miss. Nov. IA bear was
brought into the Presidents camp on Tho
Little Sunhower this afternoon, but the
President did not kill il. greatly to the dis
appointment OF his hosts.
The party started out early this morning
and at once struck the trails of three bears
They .oemed to be moving together. The
President and Mr. no" Collier and Mr..
Mac a. Mr. McDougall Of Snedcs is uni
vcrsally known hrrcabOu,s, followed the
hounds. while Major Helm and Hugh Foot
undertook to guard he side trails which
might he crossed by the bears in their efforts
TO escape.
The chase soon narrowed down To the
trail Of on" bear. which was apparently far
ahead Of .hc hounds. -Ho" ollier after a
whi.u decided that the Presideu, would
have the best chance az shot by waiting
beside certain water hole, for which the
bear seemed To lie making by long detour.
He got Major Helm and left him beside
the water hole trail with the President
and then himself went on after the bear
The Prrsiden; waited long past noon.
Then the Major decided that the bear was
not going 10 follow the route Collier had
expected and that the chance wa gone.
The President and Major Helm returned
TO the camp. They had not been gone
from their post more than half an hour
when along came the bear with the dogs
and the hunters close behind him exactly
over the road Collier had said he would
come. The bear had shown tire mt q love
bursts of speed. but. as the event showed
lacked staying powers
In cNtcuuation for the bear il should
h. said that it was mighty hot out in the
bush wood fiat between the Little and the
Bag Sunfower rivers his morning
After running some ten miles he stumbled
over log into Il mud-hoe and lay there
quite exhausted. The dogs came up and
closed i'll. They had reached the bear
several times during the morning. as had
MIR. Parker and Collier. who forebore shoot
Ing because they wanted the Presiden to
have the shot. Now, however the bear
declined TO run further
lie reached out AMI gathered one of
Collier, best dogs into his arms Collier
dubbed his rifle and dealt tn beast a mighty
blow over the head. The bear was stunned
and let 60 of the dog. which was dead.
Then Collier ruped the bear and sent a
messenger back to camp The messenger
n negro, rode into camp with wild Ina lloo
shouting:
They done GOT a boar out yonder about
ten miles and 'Ho' he wants the Colonel
to come on out and Kill him"
Il would be unkind 10 dwell on the Presi-
Tents feelings when he reached the mud
hoe and saw what he had come for. At
~, request Mr. Parker put the bear to
quick death with long knife.
just then the hounds sounded on new
trail and the President with Frank Dorsey,
negro guide. Major Helm and Mr. Foote,
went out after them with glad hurrah
hoping for more inspiring killing. Tbs
time when THE SUN reporter left camp AT
4 o'clock they had not returned, but
negro brought in the report that the dogs
which had been chasing deer for Secretary
| CortelyOd and DR.. Lung had crossed the
| trail of the same bear that the President
was after, and thar there were hopes for
the successful ending of the hunt before
| nightfall.
The bear which was killed was brought
| in and weighed. He made ESQ pounds oud
| had on his breast the white patch which,
| according 10 "Ho" Collier tradition, de-
notes extreme ferocity. When the bear
was trussed up Collier. who was very weary
| approached II and made "A few remarks
to the carcass which may not lie repeated
here, but were to the effect that the bears
| anteCedents were of low moral grade
and that he had dishonored the State of
| Nj, sissippi and the entire race of bears.
The deceased was asked why he had
!
races there for which he was far better
! fitted than 10 be the centre of a Presidcn, ial
| bear hunt.
The efforts of some newspaper cores
| pondents who came here in spite Of the
repeated announcements of President Fish
| and other hosts Of the President that the
public would have TO rely on the press
associations for news Of the hunt unless
| the Presidents outing was TO be made into
a farce hv the presence of a great audience.
| 4 l,l IL, az
After yainlv attempting to bribe Mr..
| Narpup,'s regroes TO guide them to the
! camn. the insiirgent reporters left Smedos
Ills morning I'll great ostentation. de-
clarinr thai they we're going 10 Vicksburg
| Valley Park RIO next station below, and
told freeman Wallis. Mr., Mangum's man.
aoor ,bara ,hat Mr. Nan0um had .ep,