The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-02-28

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his life, of his marriage in a justice of the
| peace's Office in St. Louis TO a divorced
woman, and the joke which he perpe-
trated upon President Arthur and Wash
| lngton City society when he brought this
| woman to Washington City and here mar
| fled her, as II was supposed. for the frst
! time, would make one OF the most inter-
| e5tlng FLAPS that could be based on ATneri-
| can history. For thirty days Tabor was in
| the senate. | don't know how many thou
| sand dollars his life here cost him. His
wedding dinner ct Wizards hotel was
most gorgeous one. and the day after the
| wedding he sent out cards bound in silver,
| and then came out in that gorgeous coach
Whlcn was the laughing stock OF Wash
/ lngton City. Mrs. Tabor No. was very
| pretty. She was as plump as a miik-maid,
/ ana her dark liquid eyes were full OF ire.
| sa" her ID the Senate gallery regal in
| diamonds, looking down At her new hus-
Dand. who was trotting about among his
| brother senators with big mOrOcco-50und
| autograph album. getting their signatures
| Tor his pa-lor table IN his mansion IN Den
| yer, and saw her later on in q box in Ia
| Dor opera-house with two very pretty
| little children beside her. and I noted that
she had grown little more Aeshy and that
| she was losing much of her beauty.
And what has become of the first Mrs.
| Tabor? Any Denver man can tell you,
| and not few OF them will saw that she
/ got the best Of the bargain after all. In
| the suit for alimony which she entered
| against Tabor she was granted with her
| divorce something like $4,000 worth of
| Denver real estate. This was decided over
| 70 her, and with the growth of the city it
has so increased in value that she is now
worth more than a million. She is
| woman Of high character, and she i'm
| presses you as being kind, intelligent and
motneriy. | saw her on the streets of
DenVer several years ago. She has high
| forehead, dark brown hair, black eyes,
and she looks like a lady. She moves
| ABOUT IN the best society of Denver, and
| she Is wrapped up in her son, who Is a
| DFight, intelligent young man. | do not
/ know that Senator Tabor and she
| ever meet together, but if they do
he must OIush for his actions
! towards her. He married her in
| Name, you know, when he was a young
! man, and the two crossed the plains to-
| gether before the DAYS of the railroad
| When they established their little store in
| one OF the mining camps she took in wash
| ing 10 keep the wolf from the door, and
| the little hoarding-house which they ran
| was Kept by her and the store from which
| the grub-staking was done was kept
stocked with goods through Mrs. Tabor's
edIAAH5S- Cue was more tnan LABOR, II -
| fa!r TO say. the author of his fortunes. and
| 1t would have been less than fair if Tabor
| had given her the half of MS millions at
| the time he got his divorce. Had he never
/ had anything TO do with Mrs. Doe or d.
| vorce. and had brought Mrs. Tabor No. L
/ here to Washington, she would not have
| disgraced him, and doubt not if he had
| stuck to her he would be richer man to-
| day than he Is. As it IS, she is said TO be
! a good business woman, and she under
| stands how TO take care of and increase
! her fortune.
| understand that Tabor is crazy to get
| back to the Senate, and this recalls the
story OF mis- first election, and how he fur
| nished ell the money, and Tom Bowen,
| who was elected 81 the same time, got the
long term and gave him the short one.
| Bowen has often been represented as be-
| ing very rich man. The truth is he has
never been worth 81, GU. 600, and though
| he has had $4,000 or SO once OF twice, his
| assets have never been represented by
| seven figures. He is man who always
| puts the best side outward. and his san
| guine heart would make q $1,000 mine
! worth 81 00o, 900, and his clustering swag-
! ger would make every one believe he was
/ right. | heard curious story of ex-Sen-
/ atCr Bowen Yesterday. He lives, you
| know, al Del NOrte, and he has one OF TWO
! good mines. which have been noted for
| their pockets rather than for valuable
| quartz veins. The trouble with such
| mines is you can never tell when they are
| going to play out. Sometimes you strike
| it very rich, and it seems as though you
| were going TO make fortune in month,
/ but before the week IS out your pocket
l may be exhausted. Bowen had struck
some very valuable finds OF this kind: He
| had made about $4,000, and with his
| hopeful heart he supposed the profits
| would steadily continue and his visions
| were those of Monte Cristo or of Alladin
| when he first tried the lamp. He took his
| 10000 and came to New York TO show
| the brokers Of the eifete East how to do
/ business, and while here in the city he
| made one or two successful turns AMI was
more happy and more hopeful than ever.
1t was during this time at the Gilsey
| house one evening, it must have been
| after dinner. that he met a Colorado fel-
| low citizen who during the conversation
asked Mr. Bowen as 20 who was the richest
! man in Colorado. Bowen. so the story
goes, drew himself up, to his full six feet
and putting one hand IN his vest
| and waving the other, said i'm
| pressively, My friend, you see before
you the richest man in Colorado. and in
all probability the man who will eyentu-
ally be the richest man in the whole
! world. \ snort time AFTER that senator
! Bowen's luck turned. He found the effete
East little sharper than he had supposed
! it 10 be, and with dropping of OF his
/ income from his mines he discovered that
/ his total assets were made up Of mineral
possibilities as yet practically undiscov-
cred in the wilds Of Colorado. He has |
! am told, since owned other mines. ana he
sold one short time ago which brought
/ him in in the neighborhood OF 500 600
He has investments in the new mining
/ fields. and when he was here in Washing
ton City q few days ago his friends say he
was more sanguine than ever. He is .
sh-ewd business man and has unlimited
faith in himself and Colorado.
Speaking of mining kings. the creates:
/ Of them has been spending the past week
| at Washington City. He has lived quietly
! at Cham berlin's, and has rot tried 10 pose
! as 4 social figure. nor IS one of the little
great men who hang about congress and
! the White House. This man Is John ".
Mackay, who nov, at the age of -. is as
active physically and intellectually as
when q boy Of l., in 1872. he sailed around
Cape Horn to Try his fortune in California.
He had a remarkable series OF ups and
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