The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-09-01
TABOR AND WIFE.
A Choice Story of Life in colorado

Mr.. Eugene Field passed tn1Ousn
this city last evening en- route from
Denver to Chicago. At the Coates
house he talked to an EoentRg Star
reporter for All hour or more about
Colorado people.
"Your paper" said he, "paid a
good deal of attention to Tabor and
his Oshkosh bride at the time OF
their wedding in Washington last
March. 1t may please you to learn
that they have set up housekeep-
ing Until quite recently they
have occupied at the w indsor
hotel in Denver those apartments
arouI d which in every hostrlry so
many thrilling negotiations cluster
the bridal chambers. 1t was the
intenGon of the fair and gentle
Mrs. Tabor No. 2 to remain per-
manently in these quarters in fact,
she told me about two months ago
that she proposed to convert one of
the rooms into "boOdoyer," what
ever that may be, and she described
the character of the dados and fres-
Goes she had in view. This was at
time when she INDUCED sweet
dreams and pleasant fancies of
social conqueSts. She had returned
from Washington with the glories
of swell wedding and presidential
attentions intoxicating her brain
a I'd she fondIy imagir ed that in
consideration of her luscious per-
sonal charms and her succulent old
bridegroom's alleged wealth, she
would at once bring to her feet in
slavish homage the best elements of
Denver society. She was very
much chagrined when society, so
far from fastening to worship at
her shrine, Stunned and ignored her
with italicised emphasis. Even Col
onel Bill Bush, Tabor's old friend
and confidential adviser, declined to
permit his family to call on the
buxom bride. This was the secret
of the scandalous quarrel between
Bush and Tabor which the papers
have talked so much about, and
which, by the way, is not yet done"
"Not yet done?" asked the re-
porter.
mo, nor hardly begun" replied
Mr.. Field. "Bush is determined
upon revenge, and it is his purpose
to expose every scandal connected
with Tabor's fragrant career, a
prominent feature being the odor>
Gus Durango county divorce case,
which may result in criminal pro-
ceedings against the waning bonan-
"a king. But to return to the bride
After being ilcontinently snubbed
by Denver society she proposed to
carry the war into Africa, so to
speak, and proceeded with much
pomp and ceremony to LeadvilIe.
Now, Leadville, to use trite but
beautiful expression, is Tabor's best
holt, and l may remark, en- PEASANT,
that in days bygone it had, if well
authenticated traditions be true,
been Mrs. Tabor s (nee McCourt) best
holt, too. Old man Tabor had
assured his glowing spouse, with all
that enthusiasm and ardor peculiar
to and characteristic of the happy
not to say satiated-bridegroom, IN
precedented in the history of the
social creme de la creme. The
gushing pair were serenaded at their
hotel by a military company, which
Tabor had provided with regimen
tails, and fire brigade, for which
Tabor had bought 800 yards of rub
Der hose At the grand reception
Immediately subsequent, there were
present eighty or ninety male beings
but not a solitary woman. The
amiable bride WaXed hot as a cook
ing stove and bitterly reproached
her tender groom. You promised
me big social BOOM she said tear
fully, sand all l find is a lot of greasy
mlnersp What had the old man to
do but suck his thumbs and look
sick?"
This remarkable BRIDE" contin-
ued Mr.. Field, returned to Den
yer with a big scheme to build a
palatial residence. She was going
to purchase four blocks of ground
in the heart of the city and erect a
palace. She would make society
sick with envy, since she had failed
to make it sick with admiration.
She had all the plans and specifica-
tions printed in the local papers,
and for a week or more Colorado
people held their breath in anticipa.
tiun of the threatened architectural
circus. But the bottom fell out OF
this scheme, too, for in due time il
was announced that the Tabors
would not build for the present,
but would be contented tc
abide in a rented house. They
hired residence in a good part OF
the city and moved into it a fort
night ago. There, day by day, the
relatives of the beautiful and ambi-
tious bride began to arrive from the
east. Every train brought in Osh-
kosh refugees-in fact, [ believe
there were several special train
loads brought in over some of the
railway lines. Talk about you1
grand army reunions Why, they
weren't marker or a circumstance
to the cohorts. battalions, brigades
regiments, corps, gangs, and armies
of McCourts that hove in sight as
soon as Tabor's bride pulled the
string. They rained down, blew in
crawled under the canvas, fioated il
} with the tide-in short, invaded Den
} yer in one vast, seething, tumultuol
mass. The woods are full of them
To-day you can't throw a stone any