Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-05-12
NEVADA'S SENATOR.

NEVADA'S SENATOR.
The Domestic Life Of the Sage Brush
Statesman.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 17th.-The
excitement of yesterday over the re-
ported attempt of young "Jimmy''
Fair to lay his Senatorial Pa out in
the cold embrace of death, has some
what subsidized. To-day Colonel Fair
denies that the boy is in town, and
says that he has been at Paso Robles
Springs, $50 miles south of here, for a
week. Mrs. Fair confirms this, but de-
clines to say anything further about
the difficulties in the Fair family. The
scandals thus let loose are not new by
any means, but until the sensation of
yesterday were not openly talked of,
and it is known that the Senator and
his family have been more or less at
Ioggerheads for couple Of years past.
The trouble consists chiefly in the
somewhat open way that "Slippery
Jim," of the millions, violates the
teachings of the seventh command
ment. While the Senator was run.
ming the bonanza mines and lived in
Virginia City, New, these shortcom-
ings were to a degree concealed, but
since he has come out in the world.
and especially since he went to Wash
ington, the Senator is alleged to have
displayed the cloven foot in all its
moral hideousness. Coupled with
countless in6delities, the burly Senator
is said to be especially abusive and
neglectful of his wife, who is a most
estimable lady, but one who does not
show disposition to suffer in silence.
She is portly lady, with flashing black
eyes, and a will Of considerable horse
power, and when the Senator gets
caught in some new pecadillo, she has
way of sultrifying the air about his
head that leads to sulphurous remarks.
On occasions like this the Senator
himself 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
ne even intimates that John Mackav
has more influence about his (Fair's)
house than he has himself. On one
occasion, just after the Senator had
taken his seat in Congress, Mrs. Fair
went to Washington unexpectedly,
and there found, it is alleged, that the
Senator had set up little establish
ment, which, though small, might have
been the envy of lsmail Pasha, ex-
khedive Of Egypt. All it needed
was half-dozen eunuchs and a Chi
bouk or two to make harem complete.
This was the occasion on 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 trustv friend
and several pounds of moral dvna-
mite, she invaded the seraglio, and the
inmates fed to New York with the
fieetness Of wild young gazelles of the
plains. The ferccness of the explos-
ion broke the Colonel all up, but he
fell back on his ancient privilege of
abuse, and adopted a new course, too
He shut down on madame's base of
supplies. The lady wanted to return
to San Francisco and plaster up her
lacerated feelings. The Colonel
swore he wouldn't give her 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 started 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 surprising
that the son, James, Jr., should be a
little hard to manage. OF course
boy like, he stands by his mother, and
be has before shown a disposition to
espouse her cause IN a muscular way
lie is wild youngster, and seems tc
aim at the distinction of being known
rs ''terror." Some time ago his
father, to separate him from some evi
companions of the female persuasion
AJames is chip off the old block y
sent him on tour around the world
with one Joe Marks as tutor and com
pagnon du voyage. Now Joe him
self is chap that forgot to go to bee
years ago. He knows how to line
stomach with chicken livers and cham
payne better than a bricklayer car
line an oven; and as for the fair Sc
he can scent the bouquet of mile
6eurs clear across the Alps. Tn,
boys laughed when Joe set sail witt
young Fair, as chaperone and mora
instructor. But little is known her
OF the tour. The 'old man" drew
checks till even he got tired. and the,
ca11ed the ho,, and he sS&oo%o,,, 49,.