The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-23

when II flowed fran the smesters- viii
not tell the siisgraceful story OF that di-
VERGE salt as II weS brought out IN the
courts Of Colorado. / saw Tabor after
It WAS over. when he brought the dash
ing yourg widow 70 Washington City TO
~ married The wedding took place az
Wifi1rd-s hotel. with q dinner 1T for
LwcuIfgs in a room tnat was almos.
walled and cefied with roses. though the
tine was msdwinter 4 celebrated priest
performed the ceremony. President
Arthur Was az the wedding and gave a
rose 10 the bride The event was the
talk OF the capital, and both before and
after IL Senator Tabor shcae IN the brief
sunshine OF his own notoriety- He even
exhibited 10 the newspaper correspond
snts the embroidered night shirts which
ne had made for the occasion. whisper
iag that the best % them had cost him
sesl spiece. THE marriage was hardly
over however before X was found that
the whole thing was farce. and that the
real marriage had been performed some
months before By Justice OF the peace
En- Il rnust.~ little Office in ST. Louis The
second Mrs. Tabor Is now comparatively
pear. The first Mrs. Tabor Invested the
aiImony which she got from the divorce
sisit ana died with something like s2ooo.-
90. Her fortune belongs 10 her son. who
stuck 10 her rather than his father. and
who. within the past few years. has been
more or less contributing 10 his fathers
support.
shakespeare and Robert EIsmere.
Nearl-- every man / meet here has some
funny story 10 tell about Tabor. ! was
chatting the other day with member OF
the Colorado legislature. He recalled the
time when Tabor was buying votes right
and left In order 10 be elected to the Uni
ted States senate That Was just AT about
the time that Mrs. Humphrey Wards
novel was creating sensation. and one
Of the politicians asked Tabor If he had
yer seen Robert Elsmere," referring, OF
course. 10 the novel.
''f.ismere? Eismere?' said Tabor. mo,
j have not seen him. From what part of
the state does he Gomez How much will
il cost 10 get his vote. anyway"
Tabofis opera house here has long pass
ed out of his hands, and also the Tabor
block. His opera house in Leadvilie is
no longer his. and l am not sure that his
picture Il still left on the drop curtain
1t was Sen the building had been COM
rleted 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 are painting in the center of
that curtaing''
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
Leadviile.''
Nothing that 1 know Of" said the art
fist.
Then paint that picture out and put
ne Ia And that is the way Tabof's pic
ture came TO be on the drop curtain.
Tom Bowcn's Ambitions.
Tom Bowen euchered Tabor out of his
long term in the senate He used Tabor's
Nancy and arranged it so that Tabor only
got thirty days. while he got six years
Bowen came out of the senate poor and
for a time after he got back to Colorado
was almost on his uppeis. Then he struck
good mine at Summitvilie about twelve
miles from Del Norte, In the southern
part OF the state. lie sold this property
for something like s2no,a0o When he was
paid his wife insisted that he put $50 900
Into 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 comfortable for
the balance Of their days. and that he
would not enter politics again until he
had made strike of at least half a mil
Hon dollars To all of these conditions
Bowen agreed He has, I am told. built
the house and made the settlement. He
has sim the senatorial bee in his bonnet
and he makes no bones of his great de-
sire TO so back TO Washington.
Colorado senatorships at Auction.
Just the other day Bowen laughingly
said that ne thought the Colorado sena-
tOTShip should be put up at auction and
sold TO the highest bidder. 1.-The money!
said he, could me turned into the state
treasury and ii would be enough TO make
a lot Of public improvements. This was
Of course. facetious. but IL such a thing
were possible 1t would bring some mighty
bids. There are a half dozen miliionaires
In Colorado. each of whom would give a
fortune Ia be United States senator
There Is n 7. Hill. who has been in the
senate before. and WIN is said To be worth
from three - five million dollars. There
Is Alva Adams, who is now governor and
who is worth a million. He would give
half Of what he has 10 be called mp high
er Tom Patterson. OF the Rocky Noun
tain News. IL another millionaire with
senatorial ambitions. Dave Moffat could
give a million for such an honor and not
miss il. and J. II. Grant the president OF
the omaha-Grant smelling works is
worth millions and is devoured with am
billion. ON the top of all this Senator Ed
WalCotf IS hustlng with all his might
fer reelection. He is a man who cares
unthing for money and who can make and
lose a fortune without batting his eye.
Wcicetfs brother Is rich. and Wolcoft
himself has mines and stocks and gold
galore Whether the thing is put up at
auction or not there viii be n lively con-
test as To who shall be Woico,is success
scr. and from what j can hear Senator
Woicott viii be there.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.