The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-11
Horace Tabor.

than was accounted FOR IN the press
dispatch of yesterday afternoon. an
nouncing his death. His full name was
Horace Austin Warner Tabor In the
mining and capitalist world he figured
for season. m the political realm his
chief distinction was that he was for
twenty-nine or thirty days a member
of the senate of the United States.
Horace Tabor was one of the Colo
radans whom the famous Little Pitts
burg made rich. Born in Vermont, in
1890 after a season in the common
school he learned the stone-cutter's
trade. When he was twenty-five yeas
old, he became citizen of Kansas.
Three years later he was a Colorado
pioneer--in the spring of 1860 he SET
tied in the gulch where Leadvile now
is. Luck came his way in 1878. In All
gust of that year, a mining partner OF
Tabors discovered the Little Pitts
burg" Tabor had one-third interest
he sold it year later for round
million.
With this money for a starter, Tabor
went into many large schemes. 1t was
popularity understood that most of his
ventures were prosperous. and he was
rated to be a very rich man. In 1878
he became lieutenant-governor of Colo
RADIO. He held that office until Janu-
ary, 1884 when he was chosen to fill
part of the unexpired term Of Mr.. Tel
Ter Mr.. Teller's career in the senate
began with the admission of Colorado
to statehood. He has served continu-
ously in the senate since then. except
during the period when he was secre-
tary of the interior in the Arthur cab
met.
In these years of Tabor's passing
prominence, gilded stories about his
wealth were widely circulated. There
was talk about his purchase of IT'S, 000
acres of copper lands" in Texas and
of something like five millions of graz
ing lands in Colorado. Vast irrigation
schemes were associated with his name
He was reported to have obtained from
the republic of Honduras a grant Of
each alternate section of land border
ing the Patook river for a distance of
a region rich in mahogany, ebony, gold,
silver and fruits. Besides this it was
told of him that he had another grant
in Honduras of $50 miles square, all
rich in mineral. He figured in Denver's
undertakings-Ta Dor opera house had
fame.
In fact. Tabors real estate invest
ments in Denver were very large. He
was deemed to be one of that city's
staunchest friends. That gave him
popularity at home, but this he threw
away. by the manner in which he
treated his wife. She had taken her
full share of hard work when Tabor
was poor and was devoting his time to
the often-fruitless occupation of the
prosppctor She drudged for years. AS
soon as Tabor became rich this wife
wasn't good enough for him, and could
not shine, he thought, in the circles in
which he proposed to move. His con-
duct drove her to the securing of a di-
vorce. She received generous amount
of property, took good care of it. and
left an estate when she died. In this
matter Tabor's conduct made enemies
for him who never forgave him. In
| fact he had severe critics who took
| great pleasure in pointing out the fact
| that the tide turned for Tabor after his
| gross unkindress toward his wife; they
liked to point the moral that the wo-
| man he afterward took up with, to
shine in his set, had the miserable
privilege of living with him in poverty.
The incident is simply one factor in o
career that was ridculously vainglor-
ious and boastful during it's little hour
The only fact that Is to-day in the mind
of the public, in reference to Tabor 5
| brief senatorial career. is that the news
| papers of the country got out of his
grand airs several amusing paragraphs
about Tabor's celebrated six-hundred-
| dollar night shirts.
Doubtless Tabor had wealth. It all
left him in a little while Then he fell
| to poverty almost as rapidly as he had
| stumbled into wealth. His property
| vanished. In recent years he has been
pointed out TO the visitor in Denver as
one of that city's poorest men. Indeed,
it was said of him. on occasion, that
he felt the pinching of poverty. For
years he flattered himself that the tide
would run his way again, and he had
schemes, bur by very sorry expert
enCe he learned that the mill vii
never grind again with the water thai
has passed" Months ago the name o,
Tabor again came to public attention
the announcement being that he haC
been appointed postmaster of Denver
Yesterday, at the age Of sixty-nine, i,
died.