Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-30

taf. r lEt 1Aa1z4-A-s-s4a-1 the house of Swope and made it a house of death. of misfor- tune, Of tragedy?
 In the east the name of Swope means not so much; in the west it has ring such as the name of AstOr or Goelet has in New York; for Col. Thomas H. Swope, either through cal eulatiug shrewdness or ignorant luck sat himself down On cheap-bought acres upon which Kansas City was to rise.
 The story of money-getting ia al- ways more real than romantic. People came and lifted Colsnel Swope out of his coWhide boots and stood him in patent feathers; they touched his hard-grubbed two-bit piece and 1t be- came gold. There's talisman in gravel as well as in ether things.
 If you ask griEzled pioneer Of the Sni Hills-river bluffs where Kansas City rises--to tell the story of the curse, he works back Go 1t, noting the Incidents on knotted fingers. And it runs this way:
 Roll Of Death and Disaster.
 Logan o. SHope, only brother of the millionaire. died in Independence, Mo, tn the prime of life.
 Moss Hunton, confidential agent and adviser of Colonel SYope, died nys- teriously two years ago.
 Col Thomas II. Swope, head of the house, alleged to have been poisoned with cyanide of potassium admins tered by Dr. Bennett Clark Hyde, died two weeks after Hunton's death.
 Gbrisman Swope, nephew, died Of typhoid fever contracted from germs alleged to have been administered ayYodermicaliy by pr. Hyde
 Lucy Lee Swope, nieCe, was barely saved from Geath by typhoid contract ed, 1t is charged, while journeying from. New York to Ka1sss City with Dr. Hyde Hyde was accused of ad- H1lnisterfng. germs in drinking water on the tEsia.
 Thomas Syoie, nephew. arm blown off by accidental discharge of shotgun while bunting.
 Mrs. Margaret o. swope, widow of Logan 0. swope and sister-in-Iaw or Colenel swope, nov suffering from neIvous prostration and general break down. -h~fE
 Dr. BennStt Clarke Hyde, husband of Frances SEope. niece Of dead mil lionaire, indicted on eleven counts for the murder Of Moss Hunton. Col Thomas H. SEope and Christmas 5wope and for administering typhoid germs to Lucy Lee Swope and other ueDbeEs of the Swope family: once found gp.lty and sentenced to life i'm prisonmont. on the ColouoI SwUpe ia- dlctment; in jail for one year; yer dict reversed and case remanded for new trial; now out on S5O,0O0 bail.
 Frances Swope, wife of pr. Hyde estranged from her family because sbe has stood steadfast for her husband ard has spent much of her share Of the Swope millions in trying to prove his innocence.
 Son of Lr. and Mrs. Hyde and grand nephew of Colonel Swope died a few hours after Birth while Hyde was in jail. The doctor was permitted 10 visit bls wife during her sickness, but arrived some time after the child had died
 Foundation of swope Fortunes.
 Elmer Swope of Virginia, who claims to be a son of Col. Thomas H. Swope by a marriage contracted while the millionaire was in east in 1881, is suing for tho bulk of what is left Of the Swope fortune. The case goes 10 trial ia a few weeks.
 Tn the hfties Tom Swope came to Kansas City, then dot on the Mis- souH river known aS Westport Land ing Reared on a farm in the east, he soon. for a few dollars, acquired one Of his own in the new country, He bought with no eye to the future great city. He planned only for a farm, but he wanted big one. Hay ing laid out @ homestead he began looking about for multiples of his orig iuaI 1C0 acres. Ready money was scarce in that country to all save Swope. Wa!st-high prairie grass stretched for miles and TO one knew the real value of the land. This gave Swope the opportunity he wanted. He bought on all sides until # was half an hours sallop across his holdings.
 4sEl feA AIS Adl lli anu a AEACt u- A-eAu purchased lay many acres 10 which an Indian girl held title, which had descended to her from ancestors. Young swope coveted this ground and finally secured t. Whether a few beads and blankets and gavdy shawls were the purchase price or whether the maid vas induced by boneyed words spoken while~ the loyelight blinded her eyes to sign away her rights is not SO important. They did business both ways half @. century ago. Anyway, he got it, and a bar gain is a bargain.
 The Outraged Indian Maiden.
 Thus. according to the story which is made authentic by many coufrm4- tory neds of heads, Tom swope made the one real mistake of his life. Red si-ns were zs numerous as palefaces - in the border country when he set tied there. and 1t would have been to his advantage to have steered- clear faf Hra-=. .rsH