Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1883 — History of Two Vulgar Persons. [ARTICLE]

History of Two Vulgar Persons.

Five years ago this Spring~3enator Taboi was a poor man,keeping a small store in a gulch near Leadville. Two acquaint ances, one of them a shoemaker, persuaded him to a mining partnership. Tabor was to furnish the “grub stake,” that is,a few tools and provisions, and the other men were to do the digging. The shoemaker and his friend went up the hill a little way and began work. Tabor thought the spot selected for operations unpromising, and threatened to withdraw from the combination, but his partners had the tools and provisions and kept on digging. They very soon fonnd ore, and Tabor bought them out. In six months he had sold between $300,000 and S4OO, 000 worth of ore. The mine thus opened is known as Little Pittsburg, and was the basis of Tabor’s fortune, which is said to amount to $10,000,000. In 1889-80 he served as Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, which was his first political honor. Then he became ambitious to go to the United states Senate as the successor of Henry M. Teller, who went into the Cabinet, but the prize eluded him on account of the scandal which was caused by the suit for maintain anoe brought by his deserted wife with whom he lived twenty five years in humble circumstances. The oourt, it is pleasant to know, decreed that she should be supported in a manner suited to her husband’s wealth. Tabofinally got into the Senate for the term of one mouth as the suooessor of Secretary Teller’s successor. Miss Lizzie MoCourt to whom he has been twioe married, is the daughter of a custom tailor living in Oshkosh, Wis. She married Harvey Doe, the son of a wealthy lumber man. They went to Denver to live where her husband lost all he had in an unfortunate mining speculation. It is said to have been for this reason that his wife sought a divorce within a year after their marriage. In the mean time she had become acquainted with Tabor. Since she captured him her parents have moved from th Jr humble home in Oshkosh, and are in the enjoyment of a SI,OOO bed room set Miss MoUourt’s acquaintances refrain from assailing her reputation, but say that she is quite indifferent as to the opinion entertained of her. In the New Orleans eleotion fraud cases, Wednesday, Deputy William Buokney, who was a supervisor of election, swore he could not identify his own signature on a tally-sheet, and was arrested for perjury.