| Show NO BEARISH TROPHY FALLS FALLS' TO TIlE THE PRESIDENTS PRESIDENT CENTS CENT'S S GUN One Lean Member of Bruin Family Is Roped but Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt Declined to Pull the Trigger o 0 0 e e eC I IONE C 0 ONE LEAN BEAR IN ROOSEVELT'S CAMP 0 t 0 0 S SMEDES Miss Nov Now 15 A A lean black bear which Weighs 35 5 CD pounds is Js hanging up at the Presidents President's camp on th the Little Sunflower ner but bit to the regret of at all the members of ot the party the first trophy of oC the i hunt did not fall CaU to the Presidents President's rifle The bear exhausted by his bis ri i 0 long race ran into a water awater L hole Just before beCore dark last night and turned fiJo 1 o on the dogs docs one of which he killed Collier Comer roped the bear and tied It to a a. tree but the President who was summoned declined to shoot it 0 and Mr Parker dispatched it with a n. knife On the wa way to camp with the dead bear hear tho the dogs struck n a fresh fresn trail trU and the President nt Mr Ir Foote Mr Mangum Secretary Cortelyou and j Dr Lung followed owed it 0 1 0 0 0 0 SMEDES Miss Nov No 15 Although Although no direct directs messenger mes had arrived from the camp on the Little Sunflower at 9 o'clock this morning word wOld drifted back during during- the night in the quick but mysterious mysterious mysterious mys mys- fashion peculiar to the transmission trans trans- mission of oC Information through negro channels in the South that the President President President dent reached camp shortly after aCler dark last night but with It came no word of oC the result of th the chase after the second ond bear Rain drizzled at Intervals during the night and this morning morning- curtains of oC gray mist from descended the low leaden load lead en sk sky Smedes was dismal beyond des de dc- de- de s It was wag simply Imply a a cotton l covered and shut up by the walls o ot of p l circus tent of mist and bisected by a a. railroad track The Presidential train and the boxcar telegraph office on the siding the plantation store and a a. single whitewashed negro cabin in th tho center of oC the the- expanse of or cotton comprised a complete Inventory of oC the from tram the signboard labeled Smedes A downpour was expected at any minute Notwithstanding Noh the threatening threaten threaten- ing weather It was assumed here that the Presidential party was waa off at day day- break |
