The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-14
READY FOR
 BLACK BEAR The President Camped in
 Mississippi. HARD WORK BEFORE HIM
Says That is What He Has
 Been Seeking.
Bobo, q Famous Hunter, is Asked for His Pack of Dogs-The Hunt Will Begin at Daylight
 Today.

smedes, Miss, Nov. 1s.-President Roosevelt and his party arrived here shortly before o'clock this afternoon and in their hunting togs started for the camp on the Little Sunfiower River. AS the distance is about fifteen miles ana the trail is rough and bad. the chances are that it will be after dark before they reach the camp.
 Smedes is simply a siding on the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad where cotton is loaded from the big Smede plantations. A plantation store and the residence of one of the managers are the only structures except negro cabins with in sight, Work on the neighboring plan tations were suspended this afternoon and veveral hundred negroes were at the sid ing when the train stopped. Most of the men sat on the cotton bales but the black mammies and the pickaninnies stood along the track. They showed their white teeth in hard grins. but made no other demonstration as the President stepped from the train.
 Tn Hunting aarb.
 He was clad in hunting costume, kaKa- line riding trousers. heavy leather leg gings, blue flannel shirt. corduroy coat and wore on his head brown slouch hat; around his waist was buckled his cart ridge belt and at his side hung his ivory handled hunting knife. The other mem- hers of the party also wore hunting suits. While the guns, blankets and other small baggage were being loaded into a. four- mule wagon, the President chatted with the manager of the Smede estate and two ladies, who were great odmirers of him and who had come especially to greet him.
 When ali was in readiness. the mem bers of ths~ party, except. Mir. Fish and MT. Dickinson, mounted small. wfry tough-looking horses and dashed away tor the woods at breakneck canter. The Presidents mount vas a black horse. He did not look spirited but 1t was ex- plained that he was just the sort of an imal needed to force a way through the dense undergrowth. MT. Fish and MT. Dickinson were too heavy to ride horse hack ard followed the others in buck board drawn by two mules.
 Two disappointment met the President here; the first one was that Mir. Mingum, who had mucn to do with arranging the hunt. was too Ill to proceed to camp to- night and the other was the story which came back from camp that in trying the pack of hounds today half of the dogs had gone off after a deer which was Jumped while Hoke Collier was on the trail of bear. As there are only twen- ty-two dogs in the pack the split is very disquieting.
 MT. Mngum, as soon as he heard of this accident, put himself in communica- ton with Bobo a famous bear hunter who has a fine pack of forty-five dogs on his place, about a hundred miles north of here, at Bobo Station. If his pack can be secured, there will be great sufi1cien- cy of dogs.
 Presidents Partners.
 In place of MT. Mingum 1t has been ar ranged that Hugh Foot and Hoke Collier will hunt with the President.
 They will start out at daylight tomor- row morning. Paths have been cut from the underbrush to be used as cutoffs to the river crossing and on these stations the members of the party. except the Pr esident, will be stationed. The Presi- dent and his guides will follow the hounds through the turf of underbrush in order to be at hand If bear is brought to bay.
 Tt will be powerful hard" said MT Mingum, and I predict the President will lose at least five pounds in the next i've days I rode through there a few days ago. and when got out my clothes were almost torn off of me. I looked as if l had been in a railroad wreck"
 MT. Mingum says the black bears here- abouts weigh from 300 to 800 pounds ''We have a set of scales at the camp" he said and the beasts will be weighed when they are brought in."
 The signs of bear in the vicinity of the camp are plentiful. and MT. Parker prom. ises the President a shot before tomorrow evening. In one water hole Hoke Collier on Monday found the footprints of nine,
 The Presidents train is on the sidetrack here and a telegraph station has beer riRged up In box car on the siding.
 The arrangements made here to prevent a crowd of curious people from spelling the Presidents fun were admirably car ried out. The people of Vicksburg want ed to run an excursion up here this af. ternoon to allow them to see the Presi dent start on his hunt. but President Fisf of the Illinois Central would not permit 1t