Show ROOSEVELT IS IN THE FOREST FORET 9 Slaughter laughter of Black Bear Next on the TRIP RIP WILL BE I PRESIDENT p AND AND HIS ms GUIDES WILL TEE DOGS C MEDES Miss Nov Nor S 0 Roosevelt and aDd his party arrived here shortly before 4 t this afternoon and in hi their Hunting tog started soon oon afterward for fat the camp campon on the he Little Sunflower Suo ower river As 65 the distance is a good fifteen miles ami an anthe the he trail trait is rough and bad the chances s sare are that it was after dark before they th y reached the camp campS Smedes S ds is JS simply a siding aiding on the Yazoo Mississippi Valley railway where cotton is in loaded from the big bis plantations A plantation store and the residence of one of the managers man managers agers are the only oly structures except ex pt negro cabins within sight si h Work W rk ik on the neighboring was wa Ia sus suspended I US this afternoon and several t eral hun bun hundred bundred dred negroes rol were we e at a the th siding eiding when the train tram stopped Most of the men sat on cotton otton bales but the black mammies and the I stood along the track They showed wed their white teeth teen in hard nard grins but made madeno no other demonstration as a the president president president dent stepped step from frou the train He was dad clad ad in hunting costume khaki riding trousers heavy heay leather leggings blue flannel shirt and corduroy coat and wore on his head a brown slouch hat Around his waist was buckled his cartridge belt and at his side aide hung his hunting knife knite The Theother Theother Theother other members of the party arty also wore hunting suits While the guns blank blankets blankets ets eta and other small smaIl baggage were be being being being ing loaded into a wagon the president chatted with Ith the manager of or orthe the estate and two tw ladies who were great admirers rs of him and who had come especially to greet him Entered the Forest When all was in readiness the mem mern members members bers hers of the party except Mr air Fish and Mr rr Dickinson Di mounted small wiry horses and dashed daBbed away for the woods at a breakneck canter The presidents mount was a black blackhorse blackhorse horse He did not look spirited but it was explained that he lie was just the sort of animal needed n eded to force a way through the dense The others followed in a buckboard drawn by two mules Two disappointments met the president dent T The k was that Mr Mangum who h had h d much to do with arranging the hunt huitt bu t was wag too Iii to proceed to camp tonight and the theother other ther th r was the tory t tI ry came me t back ack ck from fron rom camp that t IB la trying tr the pack peek or of h today Jf dogs bad had gone gon off after a deer they had bad jumped while wh e Hoke Collier was on the track or of a bear As there are only dogs in the panic pack k the split is very very disquieting Mr Hr Mangum as soon as he heard of this accident put himself in communication with Bobo Boho a famous bear hunter who has a fine pack of dogs on oI his place about iao miles north of or here at Bobo station If this pack can be secured there will be a great sufficiency of dogs In place of Mr Mangum it has been arranged that Hugh Roote and Hoke Collier will hunt with the president They will start out at daylight to tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow morrow morning Paths have bave been cut through the undergrowth to be used as cutoffs to the river crossing and andon andon andon on these stations the members of the party except the tte president will be stationed The president and his guides will follow the hounds hound through the undergrowth in order to be at hand if a bear is brought to bay Will Se Be Powerful Hard HardIt It will be powerful hard baal ha said Mr rr Mangum and I predict the president will lose at least live five pounds in the next five days I rode through there therea a few days das ago and when I got out my clothes were almost torn off of me I looked as if I had been in a railroad wreck Mr Mangum says the black bears hereabouts weigh from 0 to WO 0 pounds We Ye re have a set of scales at the camp said he and aDd the beasts will be weighed when they are brought in inThe The signs of bear in the vicInity of ot camp are ar plentiful and aDd Mr MI Parker promises the president a shot before tomorrow evening In one water hole bole Hoke Collier Comer on Monday found the prints of nine The train is on tie the sidetrack here and a telegraph station has been rigged up in a box car The arrangements made here to prevent a crowd of cur curious curious ious ions people spoiling the presidents fun will be strictly carried out The people of Vicksburg wanted to torun torun torun run an excursion up here this evening to enable them to see the president start on his hunt but President Fish of the Illinois Central would not permIt per permit permit mit It |