Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-11-11
HYDE FRIENDLESS
IN SOUTH DAKOTA
CITY HE BUILDED
Indicted Millionaire Lives Like
a Laborer and Cannot At
ford an Auto.

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| city. has occasioned considerable dis
cussion here as to his guilt or inno-
| cence. Many people shake their heads
and say too bad, too bad" His bust
ness associates say that the prosecu-
ton against Hyde is the work of enc
mics and those actuated by malice.
Whatever inspired the proceedings,
Pierre people are a unit in expressing
the hope that Mr.. Hyde may be able
to clear himself Of the charge and put
an end to the rumors circulated against
him for these maGg years.
A Remarkable Career.
Mr.. Hyde's bushes career has been
most remarkable. Coming to Pierre
In the early sos with but small means,
he has amassed n of the largest
fortunes in the state. His wealth is
estimated all the way from 81, 000, 900
to $4,000, 600. He vas educated for a
physician, but falling health compelled
him TO give up this career and seek
a new climate. He chose Pierre for
his home and settling here began to
operate in real estate. He built a fine
home 20 years ago, nearly two miles
from the present business center of
Pierre, and Early prOphesied that in
time 1t would be in the very center Of
Pierres residence district. He had I'M
bounded faith in South Dakota and un-
measurable faith in Pierre, and he in
vested every dollar he could get hold
OF In Pierre property.
Always on the Buy.
In the times Of depression he never
lost faith and VIXEN other people weTs
discouraged and selling their property,
Hyde was on hand to buy. He bought
nearly all the vacant corner lots in
Pierre; he bought entire blocks on what
is known as the hill district" and
when Congressman Burke secured an
appropriation for a federal building at
Pierre, Hyde, with keen sagacity, tied
up all the downtown locations and
succeeded in locating the postoffiCe
building on the hill. in q location where
he owned all the vaCant property. This
commenced the moving of the business
district from the fats to the hill.
In the meantime Hyde had Invested
money in Kansas City real estate, in
Duluth, in Denver, in Portland, in Win
nipeg and in acre property in Seattle.
In this state he bought property in ABB
erdeen. His Investments were made
when the entire country was in the
depths Of business stagnation. He held
on to his property until the hard times
were over. until the real estate boom
was on in every city in the country.
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vestment in Winnipeg. He pulled down
nm ever 800, 600 from his Aberdeen in
| vestment and so on in all the cities
where he bought real estate. He woke
up one day and found hat the wheel
Of fortune had made him a million
aire.
Begins TO Build Pierre.
Their he commenced building IN the
hills OF Pierre. His first venture was
a $4,000 opera house. This was fol-
lowed by a three-story brick block
named the Hyde block" with a front
! ase OH one street ~ n%af q block. Then
he built another two-story brick ad-
joining the opera house property on
Pierre street. Not content 60 step With
this, he built on ar adjacent corner
another three-story brick known as
Pierre Street block with a frontage
on Pierre street of half the length of
the block and with a frontage on Cap
itol avenue of 100 feet. He filled all
these buildings with tenants n start
ed another block on Capitol avenue,
Then he planned for a big hotel and
this year broke the ground for the
finest hotel west Of Minneapolis. 1t is
of concrete and brick construction, six
stories high and covers a quarter or
O. block facing on Capitol This
manificent structure Will cost a quar-
ter OF a million and 1t is Hyde's in
tenLlOn 10 serve NEW rear > uliluSI III
his new hotel. So Hyde, while he
builded for himself, has also builded
for Pierre. He has plans for a six
story office building and expects to
commence building in the spring. He
also has plans completed for a resi-
dence which is to cost $4,000. And ne
pays cash for all as he goes along. NO
| mortgages incumber any of his prop
erty. His success has been remarkable.
He is president OF the American Ex-
| change bank OF this city, president OF
the First National Life Insurance COM
! many. Of Pierre. Both institutions are
strnng and healthy, dividend payers
and stock In them way above par. His
associates are the lfyeliest business
fdence in his integrity and unmeas-
ured faith in his ability to do things.
No Social Friends.
Socially, MIR. Hyde has no friends.
No one likes him, no one knows him.
He is retired, not given to any of the
ways OF life which bring pleasure. His
only recreation is in hunting, and he
does his hunting in Canada, where he
shoots mere ducks and geese than he
knows what to do with. He goes on
a. shooting trip twice a year n goes
alone. He may join others elsewhere,
but If he does no one knows it. He
drives an old horse and an old surrey.
scouts the idea Of an automobile and
says he can't afford n sue a con-
veyance. To his family he is entirely
devoted, and he Is proud OF his boys
and Of his girls. His oldest son is In
an eastern college, where ne is working
his way through, Not that Mr.. Hyde
is stingy with the boy. but he told him
TO ".go 10 college, work your way
/, through and then when you graduate
/ will make IL worth YOU while" In
this Mr.. Hyde believes he is going to
make q man out of the boy, while If
he loades him with money he might
turn out as many millionaires' SON
do. Such is the man. Hyde, who has
just been indicted for fraudulent use OF
the mails. How do Pierre people take
It? 1 can't tell. 1t is safe to say that
| Mr.. Hyde Is the best hated man in
Pierre, yet in this extremity I think
that generally speaking the Pierre peo-
pie hope that he will be able to clear
himself, not for Hyde but for what he
may be able to do for Pierre.
TETANus CLAIMS VICTIM.
Iowa City, Ia, Nov. 2.-Adolph Grish,
aged 20, died Of lookjaw yesterday, de-
| spite the use OF antitoxin injected Inn
| mediafalv after his arrival here. He