The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-11-03
HYDE FRIENDLESS
IN SOUTH DAKOTA
CITY He BUILDED
Indicted Millionaire Lives Like
a Laborer and Cannot AT
ford an Auto.

Pierre, S. D., Nov THE indict-
ment returned against Chas. l.. Hyde,
the millionaire rea estate man of this
city. has o~ccasioned considerable dis
cusSion here as to his guilt or limo
cence. Many people a their heads
md 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 ms be able
to clear himself of the charge and put
an end to the rumors circulated against
him for these many 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 one of the largest
fortunes in the state. His wealth is
estimated all the way from 81, 600, 900
to So, 000, 900. He was educated for a
physician. but failing 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 Is years ago, nearly two miles
from the present business center Of
Pierre. and early ~prophesied that in
time it would be in the very center of
Plerre's residence district. He had un-
bounded faith in South Dakota and I'M
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 w}'2n other people were
discouraged and selling their property.
/ HV1a va 9 M ho nd 70 b,Ir IL L1,.uIs
nearly all the vacant corner lots in
Pierre: he bought entire blocks on what
is known az 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 postofice
building on the hill. in q location where
ne 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 estatc. Il
Duluth. in Denver, in Portland, in Win
nipeg and in acre property in Seattle.
In this state he bought property in Alb
crdeen, His investments We're 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
soFo oi IA cNSIS city III lit COulllFy.
He pulled out S140, 900 from a 5000 in
Nestment in Winnipeg. He pulled down
an even 500, 900 from his Aberdeen in
vestlnent and SO on in all the cities
where he bought real estate. He woke
up one day and found that the wheel
Of fortune had made him a million
aire.
Begins to Build Pierre.
Then he commenced building on 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.'
age on one street of half a block. Then
he built another two-story brick adj
joining the opera house property on
Pierre street. Not content to stop with
this. he built on an 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 and start
ed another block on Capitol e
Then he planned for a big hotel and
this year broke the ground for the
finest hotel west of Minneapolis. It is
of concrete and brick construction. six
stories high and covers a quarter Of
q block facing on Capitol avenue. This
manifcent structure will cost a quar-
ter of a million and 1t is Hyde's in
tention to serve New Years, dinner in
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 q resi-
dence which is to cost $4,000. And he
pays cash for all as he goes along. No
mortgages incumber n 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
pany, of Pierre. Both institutions are
strong and healthy dividend Mayors
and stock In them way above par. His
associates are the l~,velieSt business
men of the state. They have con-
fidence in his integrity n unmeas-
ured faith in his ability to do things.
No Social Friends.
Socially, Nj. Hyde has no friends.
No one likes him, no one knows him.
He is retired, not given to any of the
only recreation is in hunting, and he
does his hunting in Canada, where he
shoots more ducks and geese han he
knows what to do with. He goes on
q shooting trsp twice 9 year and goes
alone. He may join others elsewhere,
but II he does no n knows it. He
drives an old horse n an old surrey
scouts the idea of an automobile and
says he can't afford any such 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 he is workine
his way through. Not that Mr.. Hyde
is stingy with the boy, but he told hin
to 'go to college, work your way
through and then when you graduate
I will make it worth your while" II
this Mr.. Hyde believes he is going tt
make q nan out of the boy, while Il
he loades him with money he nigh,
turn out as many miIlionaires, son.
do. Such is the man. Hyde, III ha.
just been indicted for fraudulent use o
the mails. How do Pierre people tax,
1t? I cant tell. 1t is safe to saw tina
Mr.. Hyde is the best hated man ii
Pierre, yet In this extremity I thinl
that generally speaking the Pierre PEG
pie hope that he will be able to clea
himself, moi for Hyde but for what h,
may be able to do for Pierre.
TETANus CLAIMS VICTIM.
. Iowa City, Ia, Nov. 2.-Adoiph Grish
aged 20, died of lockjaw yesterday. de
spite the use OF antitoxin injected i'm
Haedtately after his arrival here. II