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Show PRESIDENT HAS ILL LUCK. ltoosevelt Has Not Yet Had Opportunity Oppor-tunity to Get a Shot at a I Eear. Smedos, Miss ,Nov, 15 No fresh bearskin bear-skin had been hung up today ut the camp of the Little Hunllowcr up to 4 30 this afternoon. At that hour the President, Pres-ident, Mr. Mcllhennj and Hoke Collier were still out in pursuit of a bear started early In tho morning, but the lemolnder of the party had abandoned the chose und twenty of the twenty-eight twenty-eight dogs had straggled buck to camp, completely tuckered out. Tho President had hard luck today. Twice he narrowly missed a chance for a shot. The pack split ulmoit Immediately Immedi-ately after leaving this morning Hoke Collier, with half the hounds, followed the trull of one bear down the river nnd nothing had been heard of him at 4 o'clock. The other bear went in the opposite direction and gave the President, the oilier members of the party and the other half of the pick of dogs a merry chase He was a big fellow and kept well ahead of tho dogs At one stage Mr. Coote, who wns with tho President, heard the dogs quartering through tho woods about them, nnd by hard riding he and the President managed to reach n cut-off uhead of the pack They waited and Mr Toote felt certain that the President wna at last to have a shot but they were too late. In about five inlnutcH the dogs swept bv 111 full cry within thirty jaidn of them, but old bruin had passed before they got there. Two hours later the President had another unfortuantc experience. Tho dogs vvcio by this time playing out rapidly, owing to the excessive heat, but five of them had hung on nnd finally final-ly brought the heist to bij In a dense thicket. The President nnd Mr. Foote heard the dogs fighting him and got within 100 jnrds of the row on their horses llicro they dismounted and went In. but the bear evidently heard them, und fanning off the dogs turned and lied beforo tho President got Bight of him The fact that he dlspowd of tho dogs so easllj Indicates that he was a large, Btrong brute, nnd this wns proven later when he went Into the Identical water hole where the first bear was bayed jesterday Secretary Corteljou nnd Dr. Lunjr. who were ln the thicket closo by, heard the splash, but the nnlmnl did not stop and neither of them got up In time for ii shot When they examined the queer footprints where he went In which measured eight Inches across, the ex-perls ex-perls figured that this Indlrited that he wns very large, probably vvclghln 400 pounds Tomorrow there will he no hunt The dogs will be resled nnd the pursuit of bear w III be resumed on Monday. The two bears killed jesterday furnished meat for the camp lost night and to-daj. |