Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-01-22
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toriety. He even exhibited to the
newspaper correspondents the EN-
broidered night shirts which he had
made for the occasion. whispering that
the best of them had cost him 5000
apiece. The marriage was hardly over,
however, before it was found that the
whole thing was a farce. and that the
real marriage had been performed
some months before by a Justice of
the peace in n musty little Office in
st. Louis. The second Mrs. Tabor is
now comparatively poor. The first
Mrs. Tabor invested the alimony
which she got from the divorce suit
and died with something like $4,000
900. Her fortune belongs to her son,
who stuck to her, rather than to his
father, and who within the past two
years has been more or less contrib
uting to his fathers support.
SHAKESPEARE AND ROBERT ELS
MERE.
Nearly every man / meet here has
some funny story to tell about Tabor.
i was chatting the other day with a
member of the Colorado legislature.
He recalled the time when Tabor was
buying votes right and left In order
to be elected to the United States SEN
ate. This was Just at about the time
that Mrs. Humphrey Wards novel was
creating a sensation. and one of the
politicians asked Tabor II he had yet
seen Robert Elsmere," referring of
course. to the novel.
"Elsmere? 3lemere?" said Tabor.
mo. have not seen him. From what
part Of the state does he come? How
much viii it cost to get his vote any
howe"
Tabors Opera house here has long
passed out of his hands, and also the
Leadville IL no longer his, and / am
not sure that his picture Is still left
on the drop curtain. 1t was there for
time, at any rate, and the way in
which 1t was put there forms the sub
tect OF the story heard yesterday II
was when the building had been COM
pleted and the artist was painting the
drop curtain that Tabor came in. AS
he watched the progress of the work,
he asked the artist: Whose picture
is that which you're painting in the
center OF that curtain?"
Shakespeare" replied the artist
who is Shakspeer?" asked the
future senator.
why" said the artist .'he Is the
man who has written the greatest OF
plays-the Bard Of Avon, you know"
''Shakspeer?" said Tabor. Seems to
me I've heard the name somewhere.
But what In thunder has Shakspeer
done for Leadvllle!"
Nothing that know Of" said the
artist.
Then paint that picture out and put
me in And that is the way Tabor's
picture came TO be on the drop cur
tain.
TOM BowEN's AMBITIONS.
Tom Bowen ouchered Tabor out OF
his long term In the Senate. He used
Tabors money and arranged 1t so that
Tabor only got thirty days, while he
got six years. Bowen came out of the
senate poor, md for time after he
got back to Colorado was almost on his
uppers. Then he struck n good mine
at summitville, about twelve miles
from Del Norte, in the southern part
Of the state. He sold this property for
something like S200,0OJ. When he was
paid his wife Insisted that he put $50
900 into n house In Pueblo and that this
be left in her name. She also made
him promise that he would settle
enough on her to make them both COM
Portable for the balance of their days.
and that he would not enter politics
again until he had made "a strike OF at
least half a million dollars. To all OF
these conditions Bowen agreed, He
has. am told. built the house and
made the settlement. He has sun the
senatorial bee in his bonnet and he
makes no bones OF his great desire to
go back to Washington.
COLORADO sENAToRSHIPS AT
AUCTION,
just the other day Bowen laughlingly
said that he thought the Colorado sem
atorship should be put up at auction
and sold 20 the highest bidder. The
money" said he, could be turned in
to the state treasury and II would be
enough To make lot of public i'm
provements." This was, OF course.
facetious, but II such a thing were
possible 1t would bring some mighty
bids. There are u half dozen million
aires in Colorado, each OF whom would
give a fortune 10 be United States
senator. There Is n. p. Hin. who has
been In the Senate before. and who is
said 10 be worth from three to five mil
lion dollars. There is Alva Adams,
who Is now governor and who is worth
a million. He would give half OF what
he has to be called up higher. Tom