Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-04-08
FOR THE LADIES.
Life OF Poverty Of Tabor's First
Wife.
THE DUTIES OF THE ENGAGED GIRL.
The Tragic End Of Aaron Bun's Beautiful
Daughter-A Pleasant Romanee-A
Fashionable English Wedding
Conjugal companionship.
CHICAGO Inter Ocean.

Chicago Inter- ocean.
Senator Tabor has had remarkable
matrimonial experience, and its sensa-
tiopsl denouement only recently gave
a great deal of material to the public
tongue, He married in Maine when
young man, and in 1859 was seized
with the Pixies Peak fever and went to
Colorado in a prairie schooner, accom-
panied by his bride, who shared with
him the perils and exposure OF that
long and tedious journey. They camp
ed for time at the present site Of Den
yer, which was then a bleak prairie,
where he kept sort of eating house
and supply store in which Mrs. TABOR
participated as his chief assistant ana
cashier to the establishment.
He then moved on to Pixies Peak,
joining the innumerable caravan In
search for gold. He settled at Colorado
City, which is now town of deserted
shanties at the base of the mountain.
He there opened a supply store, which
his wife kept while he Joined the pros
pectors in the gulches of the mountains
hunting for treasures. When the Pixies
Peak excitement died out Tabor took up
the line of march and went over the
mountains, following the prospectors.
his wife driving one team of mules and
be another. After twenty years Of drift
ing about from one mining camp to an
other, enduring all sorts of hardships,
even reaching the lowest ebb Of poverty
and sometimes threatened with starva-
ton, he settled down in log cabin
near the present site of Lesdville,
where he kept a store and boarding for
miners, his wife acting as cook, clerk
and pOstmistress tor the camp. Tabors
cabin was 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 mountains.
- Mrs. Tabor was q sort of daughter of
the regiment" among the miners, being
the only woman for miles around, and
possessing the confidence and regard of
everybody. She was sort OF bank
deposit for the rusty old fellows who
did not spend their dust as fast as they
washed il out, and it is said that she
often carried many thousand dollars in
gold dust in her bosom, wrapped
IN little buckskin bags with their
names of the owners attached. During
all this time, and up 10 1875, her hus-
band was prospectOr, meeting with
little or no luck while she kept the
wolf from the door selling supplies,
keeping bOarders and acting as laun-
dress in general for the camp at Car
Donate hill.
Good luck came at last and fortune
strike made Tabor one of the richest
men in the West. His name was one
of the first of the famous group of Cor
bert bill, and he soon became the pos
SCISSOR of others quite as rich, from
which he has taken millions of dollars.
He now owns In Ieadville 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 $500 q month. Others
pay nearly as much, and it is estimated
that his annual income from his min
ing property cannot be less than $780,
900, and his entire fortune is estimated
as high as Sl0,0O0,0O0 He has used his
money in buying real estate in Denver
and erecting upon it the handsomest
business blocks west of the Mississippi.
His opera house, which cost 500, 900,
is no doubt the finest in the country,
and is surpassed in its appointments by
lew in the entire world. His residence in
Denver is one of the most conspicuous
and costly in that city, and is one of
the sights for tourists who visit his
buildings as a simple of Western enter
prise.
having tired of the companion of
his poverty and humble life,
endeavored TO secure divorce
from her in one of the back counties of
Colorado, using methods which the pa
pers of Denver claim were not strictly
honorable. Mrs. Tabor went into
Court and asked for a division of prop
erty and a separate maintenance. Asa
compromise the husband offered her
S250,O00 and his residence in Denver
provided she would consent to the di-
vorce. This she refused to do for some
time, but finally the divorce was
granted on terms that there
were much more advantageous to
Ter and appeared to be satisfactory to
him. This family difficulty affected
his candidacy for the United States
Senate, occurring as it did during the
canvass before the Legislature, and he
was compelled to content himself with
a short term of thirty days in that dis.
tinguished body, but secured the title
of Senator and now has ''HOnOrab!e'
urittpn before his mama