New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-16

President Roosevelt is a hunting trip in the
Yazoo Delta region in Mississippi. Hoke Collier a
negro guide IN his party. is old bear hunter Of
repute. When the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley
Railroad built through that region he fur
nished the laborers with bear meat under con-
tract. He averaged eighty bears winter The
Gazoo Delta is strip Of territory. near Nicks-
burg. Miss, hundred miles long and sixty miles
wide formed by the alluval deposits Of the Missis
fippi River II Is being rapidly cleared up by
pioneers. but there are still several thousand
squares miles Of forests. mostly Of cypress
A sportsman Of this city has hunted all over that
region. and tells OF his adventures as follows:
I was invited autumn join a party OF
mississippi men for hunt IN the Yazoo Delta
raj. Here we were met by our host. and caTted
community OF shepardstown. in lie Flore County
At this point the party took TO horses. followed by
hounds and one ice dog The camp equpage was
1salea n wagons and there was large train , OF
AFTER riding twenty-five miles through solid
I1.esl We emerged IN an opening on some lahes. ..
took camp stool and seated himself comfortably
driver took his dogs made detour and sent a
eLq o. aeer scIrrsIng thTough camp as resadat ~
shot, and every day much deer meat was strung
each ''eentleran' desired 10 forward to his home
During each day there a bear hunt. but Of that
something will be said later on Al the conclusion
q TWO weeks exciting hunts. accompanied % two
siet toresIs on as sahage a oeI num- os Oi -.
eqgid desire our little party haa Two dogs 10 20
The guide and hounds went ahead and the guide
b. bis horn signalled the direction Of the deer
IN flight. As a signal came through the forest de-
noting the presence Of a stag we made a mad dash
for stream by. assuming that he would seek
10, esesPe across me AS we pp95e25TsS
9ehnd as turned and ss% huge stag going n
range, If We had not been moving swiftly the
other way. Desperate. ] swung my gun over my
ar and fell dead with the spine OF his neck cleany
severed II was clearly an accidental shot. and
n ia fafCA a. ehO q
me then and thereafter. | couldn't do it delber-
this BELIEF might have been more effectual but for
Nv horse was tethered in a dense cIump Of
bushes and stood beneath A tree waiting for the
guide 10 iush something ! had-bsen warned 10
could fee for my life. Death shots or nothing"
ana wondering how true It might be. a stag came
numbering straight a. me- ms Dig antisTs Proudy
The frontspiece of a stag presents no vital spot.
while I got around for a broadsde. He didn't
stop. bur came straight at me on three legs Quick
ly 1 sprang one side and LEI him crash INTO the
Tree As he did got his frontal yeTtesGS and
ings When the denouement so abruptly resulted
dental shot the previous indictment. ..
The black bear OF 1azoo y niue osSst 0I aoP1 I
hunting. IN Mississippi with knife and In the
ne mounted after breakfast and rode an day The
always under control. When they scented the prey
az last The bear always tooA I esuse ~ ueso
witt br!ers No one allowed 10 shoot a bear
Tor fear OF killing bear hound II Is me un-
written law OF Mississippi You pursue him on
horseback until The hounds get him eornered and
hold him surrounded. Then you oismount. crawl
on your face through the jungle where the bear
and dogs have disa appeared. ana IN me pain mace
By the animals II a guest. Il - your turn nrst.
! made my first crawl and arose an a little clear
Ing my clothes torn and NY flesh Singing, 10 nno
the bear surrounded saVagely swapping at MS f0es
and occasionally knocking dog win loTeP.a@
anywhere from twelve 10 twenty Ieet remember
noting a email tree with RELIEF. Drawing my nunt-
ng knife. / seized the first opportunity ala Grove
the steel the hilf his breast then shlilhed UP
&c tree fast as legs ana arms @os s sios ;
arriving 81 a safe vantage, glanced Gown ano
saw that my climb wasted ana tiolcn.ous- ine
slfe bad done fits deadly work Iher 49, ls
FORMED and never again sought a tree. Inc nesYoes
same IN and dieembowelied the carcass orss6eo ~
/" NE open and threw IL over TIC baeE OK aa''s'