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When news of the Alaska gold rush reached New Siberia, Welzl caught the fever, mushed across the Arctic ice to get his share. But he soon, like Denver's Horace Austin Warner Tabor, made up his mind that the only golddiggers who made fortunes were the middlemen; he went back to hunting and trapping for a living. "Gold-digging," says he, "is a horrid occupation, but a bit better than begging." In Alaska and northern Canada he met many an eccentric adventurer. Dawson Tom was a cardsharp whose favorite dodge for getting free drinks was to produce what looked...
...yours of Jan. 2 under "New Pictures," you devote a column and a half to Silver Dollar and to H. A. W. Tabor. Commenting on the same...
...Tabor was never spoken of as Haw, but as H. A. W. or as Tabor. Mrs. Augusta Tabor was not a shrew, just a sensible hardworking wife; a mother just a little foolish about her only son, Maxy. A business woman successful until in an unguarded moment she backed Maxy, was thrown against the '93 panic and went broke...
...Tabor was a large-framed, rugged man with little surplus flesh; utterly unlike the nutty-faced impersonation in Silver Dollar. His great weakness was neither whiskey nor women. In these I would say he was normal. His gambling appetite followed him to the grave. When W. S. Stratton gave him a $10,000 present, it lasted only a few days, vanished over the card table...
...Silver Dollar was Baby Doe, now a recluse who lives near Denver in a shack built at the entrance of the disused Matchless Mine. Grown eccentric in her dotage, she threatens to shoot visitors with a shotgun, wears remnants of the dresses she wore in Washington when Haw Tabor seemed to be the richest man in the world. She still believes that her daughter, Silver Dollar Tabor-who died, under an assumed name, in a Chicago brothel in 1925-is alive in a convent...