Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-07-22
read this Endorsement and swygart cut
another tooth.
planked Down the Cash.

another tooth.
rlanked Down the Cash.
Then the nephew and Uncle George
Swygart came back to town, and Swy-
CART made IL note to the bank for 81, $40,
which was Endorsed by u merchant.
Swygart had III ready money ut hand,
but it was never any trouble for him to
raise money here. AS the hour was late,l
the banker who cashed the note askedl
What are you going to do with So
much money at this hour"
The old man cooked up his ears and
replied:
That's my business"
The banker begged his pardon.
Then the nephew and uncle" drove
back to the picnic grounds, and the
game took another turn, for the sucker
had not been ctfcrtunliy landed. The
"%assaycr" said he had concluded to buy
the bricks himself. and had offered tho
Indian Sl1. 100. The nephew" became
excited. abused the %"assaycr" for taking
advantages OF his kindness, and talked
about the mnprofcssional conduct of q;
hired assaycr. While this wranyle was
going on, old Swysarl's desire WAS
sllarpcned nj every breath. and he
stepped over TO the Indian, > paid him
81. 0no, and took tie bricks. Then, with
the consciousness of having done somc-
thing smart, he called To his nephew:
Come on. I've got Tho bricks.." And
the deal was over.
The TWO men drove back To town. Tho
old man drove io his house and sent his
nephew I" Il restaurant To get Il square
meal. saying he would come ovcr and
pay for it. When Swvgart called AT tho
restaurant for that purpose he VAS told
that ll" young man had paid for his own
meal and was gone.
\ Terrible Moment,
Swygnrt probably felt IL sensation i'm
his gums al that moment. Walking up
To Mayr's store. he said to the ieweler:
You saw the bricks, did you? How
much are they wurth."
\ recollection passed Owe the jew
cler's mind. a woman had called in
tho morning, and asked him for one of
his business cards, and he had given it.
He kncw Swygart was the sort of a man
To be on the lookout for anything that
promised money, and he asked him:
How much did they do you fors'
Swysart called ON City Marshal Rose
and told him all, and he and the official
Went to the picnic grounds, but the In
dian and the assayer were gone. Swy-
CART returned to town II sent away
enough kilograms to Indiana points in
the course of nm hour to- melt the copper
wires.
The woman in the case had hired Il
buggy i'm the morning, paying for it in
advance, saying she would return the
rig late in the evening. She waited on
the edge of the picnic grounds for the
Indian IL AS sayer," and drove then
to Mishawaka, IL station near by, and
then drove back, tying the horse to a
tree in front of II physicians house,
Then she disappeared. What direction
the nephew" took is not known.
"fic Laughs Best litc.
Swygart sticks to it that the Young
was his nephew, and that the shrewd
way in which he played him tthc old
nam proves it. The reason why South
Bend people are embracing each other
over this event arises from the following
incident: Several years ago IL man
came here and met Swygart's partner,
Rockefeller, and called him uncle" and
so on The young man had IL scheme
and wol aid let his uncle in for $4,000.
Rockefeller did not have the ready cash,
hut borrowed it from Swygart, who took
II mortgage as security on twoof Rocka-
feller's lots. When the swindlc dawned
on Rockefeller nobody laughed rs
vchemrntly as old Swygart, and when
the mortgages fell due he forcclosed on,
his old friend and partner, and later On
when he began building on the lots
Swygart used to stop people and tell