The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-15
LEAN BLACK BEAR RAGGED
 t> President Did Not Kill It,
 However. <
 --< HAD TIRED z WAITING -< Went toL' ,ed Before the Ar
 l. l of Bruin. After the Animal Had Been Roped and Tied to e Tree MT. Roose-
 welt Declined to
 Shoot It..

Smedes, Miss, Nov. IA lean black bear which weighs 235 pounds is hanging up at the Presidents camp on the Little sunfower, but to the regret of all the
 members of the party the first trophy Of the hunt did not fall to the Presidents Winchester. The bears trail was struck by the hounds soon after the party
 started this morning.
 The members of the party. except the
 President, Mir. Foote. MT. Parker and
 Hoke Collier. had been stationed at the various crossings as soon as the dogs gave tongue the President and his oogs plunged through the dense underbrush in pursuit. Within a few minutes the
 dogs showed the direction the quarry was
 taking and Holt Collier with the instinct of an old bear hunter. immediately made up his mind where the animal would come out.
 To save hhe President needless hard rid ing through the brush he directed MT. Foote to take the President along the trail to a certain cutoff. This was done and the President and Mir. Foote rode to the assigned station. On their way several
 swamp deer were jumped up, but no effort
 was made to get Q shot at them. Then | for several hours the President and Mr. | Foote waited.
 Went to Lunch. The trail of the bear carried the yeip- | ing hounds out of hearing and shortly | afternoon MT. Foote abandoned hope tnat | the quarry would come back their way | and he and the President returned to
 camp for lunch. Had they remained the | President would have had a bear wiln
 the pack at its heels crossed at almost | the exact spot which Holt had indicated. | About a mile beyond this point. Bruin
 exhausted by his long race ran into 3
 water hole and turned upon the dogs. 1 They were all over him in an instant. | The poor beast was too much exhaustsq | to make much of a fight but he grabbed
 one of the hounds by the neck and crush | ed through its spine, killing 1t instantly. As the bear was making Q swtpe with its paw at another dog, Holt Collier Jumped | from his horse and clutching his rifle l knocked Mir. Bear over with blow on head; then he blew his horn in token that
 the quarry had been brought to bay. A messenger was sent back for the Presi- | dent. Meantime, Holt roped the bear and tied him to tree. When the Presi- dent arrived he would neither shoot 1t nor permit 1t to be shot.
 Put it out of its misery" said he to | MT. Parker, and the latter ended its life | with his knife.
 Struck Fresh Trail. On the way back to camp. with the dead bear, the dogs struck fresh trail and | the President, Mir. Foote, Mir. Mangum, | Secretary Cortelyou and Dr. Lung fol- | lowed it. The Associated Press correspon- | dent arrived in camp just as Holt Col | Her, with the bear slung across the
 horses launches, descended the river bank opposite. If the Colonel had stayed whar I put
 him., said the aggrieved Holt, The would CT done got this we're one."
 MT. Fish and Mir. Parker also re- turned to camp but at dark. when the Associated Press correspondent left. there was no sign of the President and some | anxiety was manifested lest the President | in his enthusiasm would get too far away and be forced to sleep on the trail. The camp Is admirably located under some big oaks on the edge of the Sun | flower. The brush has been cleared away and three sleeping and one cooking tent | has been put up. The President expressed
 his satisfaction over the simplicity of the arrangements. His tent contains four
 cots which were occupied last night by himself, MT. Fish. MT. Dickinson and l Secretary Cortelyou.
 The negroes slept on bankets under an | open tent fly. None of the small army | of newspaper men and photographers who followed the President here succeed
 ed in reaching camp today. The only
 newspaper men allowed there were the
 three press associations representatives
 who came with the party. All kinds of expedients were attempted by the others | to get to camp but without avail. Every l trail leading into the woods was guarded ani no negro could be found who cared | to risk making aa attempt to guide vis- ltors in.
 Newspaper Men Turned Back. Two outside newspaper men did, how l ever succeed in getting within half a | mile of camp. They procured horses and
 followed a blazed trail until they were
 stopped by two negro guards with guns.
 You have no legal right to stop us, '' | declared the correspondents.
 This is the only law we know" re- piled the negro, tapping his shotgun.
 The newspaper men started back and then tried the ruse of riding around the | gurads, but the latter, who had mules, | knew the woods better and cut them of
 almost within sight of camp. This time | Freedman Wallace, one of the guards. l turned the discounted correspondents | back at the point of his shotgun. The correspondents left with vague
 threats of legal proceedings against Wal | lace, but in the camp and country for miles around is the private property of | the Illinois Central 1t g not probable that
 a legal action would stick. Besides Mir. | Mangum. who Is managing the hunt, IS | the magistrate before whom the case would be tried. Some of the negroes of | the surrounding plantations have knocked | off work at cotton picking since the ! President arrived and are spending their
 time hanging around the telegraph office
 in the box car on the siding. That and the special trains. are the only attrac- tions. It Is decidedly dull. but they do
 not 80 regard it. When one Of the plan | them he replied:
 "'Deed. Marsa. I can't work till dis | excitement is over"
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