Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-30


 Y with 1t puff of the pipe of peace
 By and by the girl set up the plea that she had been duped and asked that the land of her fathers be re- turned 10 her. But as he laughed she l cursed hin and all his house;
 May fortune smile upon him only to blight him and his. Hear the prayer Of an Indian maid who has lost to this man the land of her fathers" Swope's neigbbors knew the anger of the girl They knew of the curse But if he ever heard 1t he never by any act betrayed the knoyledge.
 Millionaire Without Effort.
 The years rolled by. the people came. they built a great city around the swope farms. His pastures were ! cut into streets. his wheat fields into building lots. His homestead became Ia business center. 4 bank rose on ths site of his cowshed. He became ! a millionaire almost without the turn of hand.
 | Landless. farnless, the result of a city's growth, he seemed scarcely to know what to do with his vast for tune. Almost in sadness he walked | the streets where once he had ! ploughed and sown and reaped. 1 WGslth appeared to bring him no hap ' pines5. Always a hard working man, he found little joy in a fife Of idle ness Apparently he longed for the strenuous years of his youth. What few times he came downtown in his [ later years he found himself in a city | of strangers. Old friends were gone; he made few new ones. His 7as a solitary figure that not many recog- nized
 Kindly Of heart, he gave thousands away, but without much system or 1 reason. He had too much money. It worried him. It was a burden. Thlr- teen hupdred acres. lying along the T5iUe riveT- and adjacent to Kansas City, he gave to the people for a park, which bears his name. He gave to charities and to ell public funds. Yet he kept in the back ground and appeared to gain no hap plness even from philanthropy.
 He was Q sOnbre man, gloomy, alone. The curse had begun to work
 His brother was dead, leaving large family in a beautiful home on Pleasant street in Independence, nine miles as the crow flies and the trolley car runs from Kansas City.
 Thither went Colonel Swope to live, and thither he took Moss Hun ton. his friend and counsellor.
 It was in Independence that trou- bles began 10 crowd upon the gen. erous old colonel. One day in turn ins the calendar he came 10 a sum- uler month illuminated with the draw ing Of an Indian girls head. The colonel looked at it from different angles and then tore it from its place.
 Enter Or. Hyde. | Dr. Bennett Clark Hyde, well-known physician of Kansas City, had wooed and won Frances Swope, niece of the millionaire, against -the wishes of the girls family. This arrangement was patched up and Hyde was the family physician of the Swopes when Hun ton died suddenly and under circum- stances later termed suspicious and mysterious" 4 few weeks later . Colonel swope. apparently overcome by the death of his companion, passed away. And then Chrisman SwoRe, the nephew.
 These three deaths, followed by an epidemic Of typhoid that threatened to wipe out the entire SwoPe family. sre- suited in a rigid investigation. Dr. Hyde's name was dragged into the in- quiry and he promptly sued the ex- ecutors of the Swope estate for s100.- GOO damages.
 While the damage suit was pend ing ed while small fortunes were going for attorneys fees Hyde was indicted on the charge of poisoning Moss Hunton and Colonel Swope. Lucy Lee swope and others with typhoid germs.
 A Trial and counter-Trial.
 Hyde dropped his damage suit for the more important labor of saving himself from the gallows or the peni- tentiary. The dollars began to pour out. The exccutors employed the best legal talent in two etetes Co assist the prosecution. Mrs Margaret Sw0De