Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-10-19
MARVELLOUS CAREER
OIL Ex-senator labor Whose Millions Creditors
Are Seeking,

DENVER, Col, Oct. lS.-The assignees
of the Tabor Amusement Company and the
Tabor Real Estate Company. assigned by
ex-senator II. A. w. Tabor, Monday, were
busy today preparing an inventory of the
property. The assets of the estate are hard
TO estimate, SIS they consist of buildings and
realty that is mortgaged or pledged for
various advances, or as security for inter-
est. Interest has eaten the heart out of the
estate and by the inrosds Of the money
ls nderS MIR. Tabor has been forced 20 sue
cumb.
His fight against the result extends over
period of five years, during which be met
with reyerses on every side and everything
he possessed seemed TO dwindle in the scale
of values. First of sll the opera house, of
which so much has been written, was neg
lected and others came in and built opposi
ton theatres before the owner realized that
he no longer had the control of the smuse-
ment business here and could not do as he
pleased with msusgers. Then the block,
which cost 81 500 0O0 In the days when all
material had to be brought from the East,
went TO wreck and the tenants deserted.
The revenue, estimated at $4,000,
dropped until it failed to meet interest de-
mands, snd other property went in the same
was. Money was borrowed at , per cent.
per month, III hope that the mining interests
would yet redeem the reality. Then the
Vulture, big paying gold mine in Arizona,
was flooded, and the demonetization of sill
yer threw the Matches silver mine of
LeadyIlle out of the market. Driven to
bay, the ex-senator took up a property in
Mexico with money borrowed from the
bap MI nf IN for
the stake of his life. The Santa Ediwego
was reported to be producer of 500 900
month, but delay in getting machinery aud
the first mortgage of the Mexican bank alb
sorbed the earnings which were relied upon
to rescue the Denver property.
When il became apparent that no money
would be derived from this source for a
y ear at least, MIR. Tabor looked around for
some one to tide him over his troubles. He
met Mrs. Swinkheimer owner Of fortune
which, like his, WAS the ouigrowth of luck
in mining. She had graduated from coun-
try storekeeper to banker by the sale of the
Enterprise mine for the sum of million
and half in cash. and had lots of money
to spare for investment There must have
been fellow feeling, the public thought,
in such a woman helping the hero of the
$1,000 night robe, but there was no senti-
ment in The deal for the lady forced the
Senator to ss;ign-something which preyi-
GUS creditors who wanted their pay could
not succeed in doing.
At q rough guess Mr.. Tsbor's property
might be put at $4,000 coo, mostly of an
unconyertible nature. If the Santa EAi-
wego mine in the Jesus Maria district OF
Mexico is able to produce what is clsimcd
for it, then another two million of assets
msy be c0nnted. On this mine no one has
much information, and its value ia shaded
freely by competent authorities. The sew
eral Tabor companies are composed of Mr.
Tabor, his wife ard his brother-in law,
Peter McCoutt.
Mr. Tabor was at one time the most
famous of COlorado's bonanza kings, and
his life history is one of the striking
romance of mining. lie is a New Eng
lander and his early training on his fathers
farm in New Orleans county, Vermont,
well ri;ted him for the hardships he encoun.
tered in his early manhood. lie learned the
trade of stonecutter in Maine. worked on
the dams and canals in Lewiston when they
were built, married q Lewiston woman ard
then moved to Kansas and engaged in
farming. He gave considerable attention
10 pOlltlCS, was aCufe IN lnC free SOil
movement in that state, and participated in
the exciting struggle against border rutlian-
ism. lie was a member of the Topeka
Legislature that was dispersed at the point
of the bayonet by the order of the Presi-
dent.
MIR. Tabor next moved to Colorado and
Vas among its esrist settlers, and went to
Clear Creek county. Ia the following
winter he went TO Denver and located the
xt spring in California Gulch now Lead
yille). Senator Tabor was seen last even
ing, but had nothing to say beyond the fact
that the assignment was made for the pur-
pose Of unrayeling the complications into
which bis companies had fallen during the
financial stringency. He did not consider his
affairs in hopeless condition, but init
mated that the courts would straighten out
the tangle. Many persons who have kept
an eye on the declining years of the sens-
tor are or different opinion.
As Mrs. Tabor No. 2 il financially well
fixed and occupies an elegant Capitol Hill
residence, the senator will not want here
after for the necessities and comforts of
life.