The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-15
ONE BEAR KILLED.
Net Result of the Presidents
Hunt to Date.
Animal Was Tied Up and Dis
patched With Knife.
ALL SORTS OF PLANS
Are ResOrted to by Newspaper
Correspondents.
ALL SORTS OF PLANS
Make Frantic Efforts to Pene-
trate to Hunters Camp.


direct messenger had arrived from the
camp on the Little Sunfiower at
o'clock this morning. word drifted back
during the night in the quick but mys-
FERROUS fashion peculiar TO the trans
mission of information through negro
channels in the south that the president
reached camp after dark last night but
with it came no word of the result OF
the chase after the second bear. Ram
drizzled at intervals during the night
and this morning curtains of gray mist
descended from the low, leaden sky.
Gmedes was dismal beyond description.
1t was simply cotton field covered
and shut in by the walls of a circus
tent of mist and bisected by railroad
track. The presidential train and the
boxcar telegraph office on the siding,
the plantation store and a single white
washed negro cabin in the center of the
expanse of cotton comprised compile
ted inventory of the view from the
signboard labeled "Smedes."
A downpour was expected at any
minute. Notwithstanding the threaten
ing weather. it was assumed here that
presidential party was off at daybreak.
FIRST DAYS TROPHY.
Smedes, Miss, Nov. ia lean black
bear which weighs 235 pounds is hang
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 rifle. The bears trail was
struck by the hounds soon after the
party started.
The members of the party, except the
president, Mr.. Foote. Mr.. Parker and
Holt Collier, had been stationed at the
various crossings and as soon as the
dogs gave tongue the president and his
7ne Min IL
derbrush in pursuit. Within a few min
utes 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
the president needless hard riding
through the brush he directed Mr.. Foote
to take the president along the trail to
a certain cut off. This was done and
the president and Mr. FOOte rode to the
assigned station. On their way several
swamp deer jumped up. but no effort
was made to get a shot at them. Then
for several hours the president and Mr..
Foote waited. The trail Of the hear
carried the yelping hounds out of hear
Ing. and shortly after noon Mr. Foote
abandoned hope that the quarry would
come back their way and he and the
president returned to camp for lunch.
Had they remained the president would
nave had shot, as the bear, with the
pack at its heels. crossed almost the
exact spot which Holt had Indicated
About a mile beyond this point the
pear exhausted by his long race ran
into water hole and turned upon the
dogs. They were all over him in an in
stant- The poor beast was too exhaust
ed to make much of a fight, but he
grabbed one of the hounds by the neck
and crushed through its SHINE killing il
instantly. As the bear was making a
swlpe with its paw at another dog Holt
Collier jumped from his horse and. club
ping his rife. knocked the bear over
win blow on the head. Meantime he
blew his horn in token that the quarry
had been brought to bay.
a messenger was sent back for the
president. Then Holt roped the bear
ana tied MN to tree. When the presi-
dent arrived he would neither shoot if
nor permit it to be shot.
Put 1t out of its misery" said he To
Mr Parkel, and the latter ended its life
with his knife Later on the way to
s ssIl,p WIN the dead bear, the dogs
stIuCk another trail, and the president
Mr. Foote, Mr.. Mangum. Secretary
Cortelyou and DR. Lung followed it The
Associated Press correspondent arrived
az the camp just as Holt Collier, with
the pear slung across the horses
launches descended the river hank on
posite. u ''''iN Up
III. the colonel had stayed where 7 NM
nlhl, SAID the aggrieved Holt he would
have done got this we're one "oHiu
MI flsn and Mr.. Parker also returned
70 camp, but at Clark, when the Associated
fress correspondent left thers was no
sign of the president and some anxiafv
was manifested lest the president in his
enthusiasm would get too far 49, ~ lriS
be forced to sleep on the traT away anu
Inc camp is admirably located under
flower Srle n f-, on me edge of the Sun
three sleeping and one cook fent bava
oesn put up The president expressed his
rangements. His tent contains 60 ~ ~ :
WhlcA were occupied by himself Mr. lSjsb
MI DlcklrsoH and Secretary CorteIvnt1
me negroes slept on blankets under ~,
open fly tent. None of in. small srr1,- o. ~
newspaper men and photogra phers W.
1ol1wed the president here slicr.eedo,f -
Isachlng camp. The only newsn7ner 49,,
allowed there were the three rr.ss ass1,.il
aoion representative. who came with the
tempted by the others to get into cam
nut without avail. Every TRAN leadinr
mo me S woods was guarded and no negro
toulu ne lound who cared to risk ma Iii ,
an attempt to guide the visitors Two -
slue, newspaper men did however. sre.
Geo IN getting within halr II mile OF fhs
camp They procured horser ard foilnu,sd
a oiazed tran until they were stopped bv
GU have no legal right to srnr, -, >,
declared the correspondents P u.s.
rms Is the only law we know" replied
negro tapping his gun. The lewspnDer
men started back and then trieI The rl,se
OF iiohS around the guards but the lar
Ter VINO mad mules, knew the woods bet
teI anu Sut them off almost in sighr 81
camp. This time Freedman WALLACE or,e
OF the guards. turned the discounted 90
rsSpondents at the point of his shotgun
Inc correspondents left with vague thrssts
OF lsSal proceedings against Wallace hui
as the camp and country for miles aro,nc
Is the private property of the Illinois -.
trial, It is not probable that a legal ac-ior
would stick. Beside. Mr. Maneum s-br
Is managing the hunt. is the magistrate
before whom the case would be tried.
one newspaper man tried to bride q
darkey to show him the way to the nf-es
idents camp. He offered the NEGRO s.r
Deed. Mistah.' responded the negro
Il wouldn't take you out there for a nil
lion dollars. Mistah Mangum told us any
OF us who took white men there would he
chances" ~
Thirteen Drowned at SEQ