Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-18
President Will Leave Missis-
sippi This Afternoon.
OUT HUNTING TODAY
BUT LITTLE HOPE HE WILL GET
A BEAR
One of the Party Got One Yesterday
The President Not So
Fortunate.

SMEDES, MISS, NONSulDSi MS was
the last day of the Presidents hunting ex-
pedition in Mississippi. messenger from
camp this morning reported that the party
got an early start. The weather conditions
were better than they have been on any
day of the hunting. 1t was cool and cloudy
and the dogs could work without distress.
The hunters who are trying to give the
President a shot are pretty badly discour-
aged, but they were hoping against hope
for better luck today. The President him.
self seems less concerned over his ill-for-
tune than are those who were instrumental
In bringing him here. He is satisfied that
there are bear IN the swamps, and told MS
friends yesterday that he wanted to come
down here again and have another hunt
with Holt Collier.
The party will break camp late this after
noon.
KNOXVILLE, enn., November 1S.-1t Is
announced here that on his return trip
from Memphis President Roosevelt will take
the Southern railway route direct to Wash
ington, and will make stops at Stevenson
and Tuscumbia, Ala, Chattanooga and
Knoxville, Tenn, and Asheville and Mon
roe. n. c. This will be the Presidents
second visit this year to Chattanooga,
Knoxville and Asheville. He is scheduled
W ItdCn ASHeNllie 1llui suoy ot o.iO pun
One Bear Killed Yesterday.
The dogs started one bear yesterday. He
fed in northeasterly direction at the first
cry of alarm and did not stop running until
he reached the canebrakes about nine miles
from camp. There he was overtaken by
Mr.. McDougal, one of the managers Of the
Smede plantation. who killed him at seventy
PAGES. The President who had started this
oiro in tha rai in wi
not hear the dogs after they first struck
the trail.
The President takes his i'll luck good
turedly. He says 1t is simply the fortune
of the chase and that he will have last
try tomorrow.
The bear killed today weighed 225 pounds
Judge Dickinson is the only member of the
party, except Mr.. McDougal, who has fired
a shot The Judge missed a swamp deer at
100 yards. Mr.. McEiheney also had
chance at a deer today, but his gun refused
TO go off.
1t turned colder today, and the rain
which began last night ceased falling short
ly before noon.
Object to Negro sentinels.
A dispatch from Memphis, Tenn, last
night says: The fact that the Roosevelt
committee on arrangements has caused the
exclusion of visitors, kodak fiends, reporters
and sightseers from the camp near Smedes
station during the stay of the bear hunters
has aroused the ire of some of the editors
of newspapers published within short dis
tance of the Presidents camp. One of the
publications near the scene of hunt advises
Its readers that any man would have the
right to shoot down a negro guard who
would try to bar his progress in what is
termed a free country"
The country through which the President
is hunting is about as wild and rough as
any to be found the continent An
African jungle would not be more impene-
trable than the canebrake in which the
President is hunting bear The population
IN this particular county numbers about
ten blacks to one white So far there has
been but one disturbance between whites
and blacks. A son of a prominent Missis
sippi planter was hunting with his own set
of dogs and was accosted by the coored
guards stationed outside the Roosevelt
camp. The guard commanded the hunter
to halt The reply was a shot from the
white man, but the retreat of the guard put
stop to further trouble.
The feeling of the planters and farmers
in the neighborhood of the Roosevelt camp
is intense against the policy of the com
mittee Of arrangements in placing negro
guards to picket the camp of the Presi-
dent against visiting insurgents An effort
was made to get white men to serve as
guards 10 the President, but 1t was not sue
cessful.
Guards Refuse to March.
Local arrangements for the reception OF
the President are progressing slowly After
President Roosevelt concludes his hunting
trip he will come TO Memphis and will
spend a short time here. 1t has DEVELOPED
that at a meeting of the committee on ar
rangements last night the Confederate Vet
erars, the Governors Guards and other
local militia refused to join in the parade
in honor OF the President. The reception
committee has announced that there will be
no military feature of the Presidents
parade.
The committee in charge of the enter
tainment to be given In honor of Gen Luke
E Wright on Wednesday night completed
all arrangements tonight. An additional
feature to the heretofore announced pro-
gram is that the wives of the members of
the committee have been constituted a com
mtttee of arrangements for a breakfast to
be given by the ladies of Memphis to the
President and Gen. and Mrs. Wright at the
Gayoso Hotel at noon on Wednesday
President Roosevelt has accepted the la
dies invitation. Arrangements also were
completed to give Gen. Wright rousing
welcome on his arrival Tuesday night
Main street will be Illuminated and cannon
VIII boom when his train pulls into Poplar
street station.