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Show HUNTING GROUNDS HUGE GAME PRESERVE t ROOSEVELT WILL HAVE A TAME TIME IN AFRICA. Capt. Smiley, Who Has Hunted Over Same Ground Many Times, Is of This Opinion. San Francisco. March 15. Captain A. J. Smiley, who is said to havo served with the Irish brigade In tho Boer war, say that hunting grounds where ex-President Roosevelt plans to spend his vacation, are nothing but a huge preserve, and that the hunter will hive a tame time. The captain claims to have hunted over this ground many times, and he aseerts that the Hons havo been shot at so often that they havo become gun shy. The Duke of Manchester, according ac-cording to Captain Smiley, is said to have shot over the country which Roosevelt will traverse without ba?-gins ba?-gins anv game. Smiley claims to havo written "a letter to Roosevelt suggesting suggest-ing that he go to a portion of Africa where elephants could be met in j droves instead of pairs, as is ?aJd to be the case in the Mombosa district. Roosevelt's reply to this letter was a ourt intimation that the itinerary had been made out and could not bo, changed. ' |