The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-21
MRS. TABOR NO. |.

Something About the Woman Whom sena-
tor Tabor Has Discarded for One fairer
To Look tpon-The Gray Mare Was by
Par the Better Horse-EsIthful In Pov.
erty, Aniuenoe brought Her Only a Cup
OF bitterness
Sentor Tabor has had remarkable mat
rimonial experience, and lis sensational
denouement recently gave great deal of
material TO the public tongue. He mar
ried in Maine when young man, and in
1859 was seized with the Pixies Peak fever,
and went to Colorado in prairie schooner,
accompanied by his bride, who shared with
him the perils and exposure of that long
and tedious journey. They camped for a
time at the present sight of Denver, which
was then bleak priirie, where he kept
sort of clearinghouse and supply store, in
which Mrs. Tabor participated as chief as
sstant and cashier of the establishment.
He then moved on to Pixies peak, joining
the innumerable caravan In search Tor gold.
lie settled Colorado city, which is now a
town of deserted shanties at the base of the
mountain. He there opened a supply store,
which his wife kept while he joined the
prospeciors in the gulches of the mountains,
hunting for treasures.
NhtA iiN AhN INhh NASlNNiAOhN hieh
out Tabor took up the line OF march and
went over the mountains following the
prospectors, his wife driving one team OF
mules and he another. After twenty years
of drifting about from one mining camp to
another, enduring all sorts of hardships,
even reaching the lowest ebb of poverty,
and sometimes threatened with starvation,
he settled down IN log cabin near the
present site of Leadville, where he kept
store and boarding house for miners, his
wife acting as cook, clerk and post mistress
| for the camp. Gabor's cabin was a famous
resort in those days, and was the scene Of
many incidents that are now part Of the
! history of mining life IN the Rocky noun
| tains.
Mrs. Tabor was u sort of daughter of the
the regiment" among the miners, being
the only woman for miles around, and pos
sessng the confidence and regard of every
body. She was a sort OF bank of deposit for
the rusty old fellows who did not spend
their dust as fast as they washed it out, and
it is said that she often carried many thou
sand dollars in gold dust in her bosom
wrapped in little buCkskin bags with the
names of the owners attached. During all
this time, aud up to 1919, her husband was
a prospector meeting with little or no luck,
while she kept the wolf from the door sell
ing supplies, keeping boarders and acting
as laundress in general tor the camp at
Carbonate hill.
Good luck came at last. He now owns in
Leadyile and other portions of Colorado
more productive mining property than any
other man, and from some of his mines his
income is AS high as $4,000 month.
Others pay nearly rs much, and ii is est-
mated that his annual income from his
mining property cannot he less than $780,
900, and his entire fortune is estimated as
high as $40, 100000.
Several months ago Senator Tabor, hay
ing tired OF the companion of his poverty
and humble life, endeavored to secure a
divorce from her in one of tho back cOun-
ties of Colorado, using methods which the
papers of Denver claim were not strictly
honorable. Mrs Tabor went INTO court
and asked for division of the property and
n separate maintenance. As n compromise,
her husband offered her $25O0OO and his
residence in Denver, providing she would
consent to the divorce. This she refused to
do for some time but finally the divorce
was granted on terms that were much more
advantageous to her, and appeared to be
satisfactory to him. This family difficulty
affected his candidacy for the United States
senate very seriously. occurring as it did
during the canvass before the legislature
aud he was compelled TO content himself
J with short term of thirty days in that dis
tinguished body, but secured the title o.
senator, and now has honorable writer
before his name. Chicago lnter-Ocean.