The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-05-01
THE FAIR FAMILY.
A Senator's Wild Ways Raise q
Storm in his Household.

san Francisco Special to Chicago Herald.
The excitement yesterday over the
reported attempt of young Jimmy"
Fair to lay his senatorial pa out in the
cold embrace of death has somewhat
subsidized. To-day Col. Fair denies
that the boy is in town. and says he
has been at Paso- Robes Springs, $50
miles south of here, for week. Mrs.
Fair confirms this but declines to say
anything further about the difficult
ties in the Fair family. The scandals
thus let loose are not new by any
means, and until the sensation of yes
terday were not openly talked Of, but
it is known that the senator and his
family have been more or less at lag
gerheads for q couple Of years past.
The trouble consists chiefly in the
somewhat open ,wav that "Slippery
Jim" of the millions violates the teach
ings of the seventh commandment.
While the senator was running the
bonanza mines. and lived in Virginia
City, New, these shortcomings were
to degree enc. aled, but since he
hos come out in the world, and espe-
cially since he went to Washington,
the senator is alleged to have display
ed the cloven foot in all its moral hid
eousness. Coupled with countless in-
fideli.ies. the buriy senator is said to
be especially abusive and neglectful
Of his wife, who is most estimable
lady, but one who does not snow a
disposition to suffer i'm silence. She is
a portIy lady, with flashing black
eyes, and will Of considerable horse
power, and when the senator gets
caught in some new peccadillO she has
a way of sultrifying the air about his
head that leads to sulphurOus remarks.
On occasions like this the senator him.
self turns accuser and charges the
good lady with unseemliness of con-
duct, which all who know her believe
to be false. When the senator gets
very wroth, and very reckless of
speech, he even intimates that John
Msckey has more influence about his
(Fairis) house than he has himself.
On one occasion, just after the senator
had taken his seat in congress, Mrs.
Fair went to Washington unexpected
ly, and there found, it is alleged, that
the senator had Sc. up a little estab-
lishment, which. Though small. might
have been the envy of Ismail Pasha,
cx-Khedive of Egypt All it needed
was half-dezen eunuchs AMI a Chi
bouk or two make it harem COM
plete. This was an occasion in which
the gossips say the excellent lady rose
equal to the emergency. She didn't
say anything to the Colonel Just then,
but she laid her plans. and in few
days with the aid of a rusty friend
and several pounds of moral dynamite
she invaded the seraglio, and the in
mates fled to New York with the
fleefness of wild young gszelles of the
pla;us. The 6erceness of the explo-
sion broke the Colonel all up; but he
fell back on his ancient privilege of
abuse. and adopted new course.
too. He shut down on Madame's
base Of supplies. The lady wanted
to return to SanFrancisco and plaster
up Ler lacerated feelings. The Col
onel swore he wouldn's give her a cent,
and he didn't. Then she said he
needn't; she would borrow all she
wanted from his friends. She had
some money, and with that she start
ed with her children and servants.
Her money took her to some point in
Nevada. There she tackled the first
friend of her husband she met and
got money to bring her home.
With such relations existing be-
tween the parents, it is not surpris-
ing that the son, James, junior,
should be little hard to manage.
Of course, beylike, he stands BY his
mother. and he has before shown q
disposition to spouse her cause in .
muscular way. He 10 q Wild young
ster and seems to aim at the distinc-
ton eff being known ~ q "terror."
Some time ago his father, to
separate him from evil companions of
the female persuasion DANES is chip
of the old block, sent him on a tour
around the world with one Joe Marks
as tutor and compagnon du voyage.
Now Joe himself is q chap that forgot
to 90 to bed years ago. He knows
hew to line . stomach with chicken
livers and champagne better than a
bricklayer can line an oven and as
for the fair sex, he can scent the bou-
quet of mile fleurs clear across the
Alps The boys laughed when Joe
set sail with young Fair as chaperope
and moral instructor. But little is
known here of the tour. The "old