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...evening of March 1, 1883, President Chester A. Arthur left the White House, stepped into his carriage, rolled around to Washington's Willard Hotel. There that New York dandy witnessed the wedding of Colorado's U. S. Senator Horace Austin Warner ("Silver Dollar") Tabor and Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt ("Baby") Doe. Diplomats and Congressmen were present. The beauteous young bride wore a pearl necklace for which the groom had that morning paid a fortune; it had, the guests were told, been part of the jewelry pawned by Queen Isabella to finance Christopher Columbus. The air was loud with...
Next day the Catholic priest who officiated, discovering that both bride and groom had been divorced, refused to sign the marriage license. President Arthur and the rest of Washington learned that the happy pair had been secretly married in Missouri some months before. The agents whom Tabor had sent abroad to find Queen Isabella's jewels, it developed, had never left the U. S. And on March 4 Tabor's 30-day term as Senator ended and he returned with "Baby Doe" to Denver...
...time "Silver Dollar" Tabor counted his fortune at $100,000,000, was reputed the largest landowner in the world. Ten years later came demonetization of silver and panic. Tabor, in the belief that his silver mines would produce unending wealth, had squandered or gambled away some $12,000,000 in 14 years. Now he was ruined. Followed five years of humiliating poverty-"Baby Doe" stripped of her gorgeous gowns and jewels, "Silver Dollar" working occasionally with pick & shovel. In 1898 he was appointed Denver's postmaster, held the job a year. died. But only last week came...
...Vermont stonecutter, Tabor went West in 1855, opened a general store, made $1,300,000 out of a $64 grubstake to two German prospectors who struck silver. He bought the Matchless silver mine in Leadville, Colo, for $117,000, made $10,000,000 out of it. Coarse and lusty, he spent his money with equal pleasure on a million-dollar opera house in Denver, a $1,000 silk & lace nightshirt with gold buttons. Dazzled by his wealth was the belle of the mining camps. "Baby Doe," daughter of an Oshkosh, Wis. tailor. When the great Tabor began eyeing her blonde...
...attempt to avenge the 2-1 defeat suffered at the hands of the Andover booters last year, the Freshman soccer team will fight the Blue on Andover's field at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Last Saturday the team waded through the raud to win its opener against Tabor Academy...