The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-06-08
FORMAL VISITS EXCHANGED
MRS. w. o. GRIGSBY WANTS TO
AVENGE HER WRONGS.
A Beautiful Army Wedding Solemn.
lied Yesterday in the Chapel at
the Presidio-Batery B
Soon to Be Here.


companies is at an end. In a short while
these two companies will have returned
TO them by the Government two trans
/ ports. The vessels in question are the
! CITY or Puebla and the Zealandia. The
tate OF these two. transports has been
| hanging in the balance for the past ten
days, and the companies believed the
Government would still retain them In
a short time the vessels will again be
ready for their regular runs with their
respective lines. Yesterday Lieutenant
Colonel Long, the depot quartermaster,
received instructions from the War De-
partment to discharge both transports.
The Puebla belongs to the Pacific Coast
and the Zealandia to the Occidental and
Oriental Company. Majors J. NJ Thomp-
son and Hugh ]. Gallagher and First
Lieutenant John P. Hams have been ap-
pointed a board Of survey to act with
the owners of the two ships in connec-
ton with the removal from the trans
ports of all property of the United States
that the Government has placed upon
these transports as fittings. The board
will see that the vessels are in the same
condition as when chartered before turn
ing them over to their companies.
Formal courtesies were exchanged yes
terday between Captain BetbeGer of the
Argentine Republics trainingship Pres
idente Sarmiento and the officials of this
department. In the morning Captain No
bic, representing Major General Shafter,
formally called upon Captain Betbeder.
He was in full dress uniform, and was
received with all due honors when he
boarded the Presidente SarmientO. He
was received by Captain Betbeder, and
spent some time with him in his cabin.
Promptly at o'clock in the afternoon
the visit was returned by the captain,
who was received by Lieutenant Colonel
a n of no To-
partment. When General Shafter returns,
which will be tomorrow, captain Betbe-
der, being his junior, will call upon him
and pay his respects, and the general will
return the call.
Mrs. Mary Grigsby, the first and legal
wife of Sergeant Willis o. Grlgsby, who
is held by the authorities for having more
than his lawful share of wives, called at
department headquarters yesterday, &C
companied by her brother, w: II. Cast
ner. They came from St Helena, Napa
dence against the sergeant which will
only serve to make ii warmer for him.
Cashier says that his sister married
Grigsby in Sacramento in 1872. Last April
the sergeant went to st. Helena to visit
his wife He then came to this city and
sent his wife $50. A few days later he
wired her that he was sick at the Golden
West Hotel and requested her to send
him $50 The money was sent by tele-
graph and Mrs. Grigsby also requested
10 be allowed to come down in order that
she might care for her husband. The
sergeant wired her that 1t was not neCes-
sary, as he was better, and the same
evening he used the borrowed money in
order TO marry his third wife Cashier
says that Grigsby has borrowed money
from his aunt-in-law, and he believes
that he owes a great deal of borrowed
money to many persons. He also thinks
that he has evidence that will show that
the sergeant altered his discharge papers
in order TO deceive his first wife, so that
he might be able TO escape some of the
financial obligations that he owed her
family
Companies G and L of the Seventh In
fantry, which are to go as the command
of Colonel Ray to Alaska, have arrived
at Benica Barracks. Company A of the
same regiment may he added to the eX-
Mcpherson, Georgia. There is now no
longer any chance of the Third Artillery
having to go to the north. The order de-
failing Battery l. Captain Henry c..
Danes. has been revoked. Battery B of
the Third Artillery leaves Fort Mon
roe to-day, and upon its arrival here will
take temporary station at Angel island.
Lieutenant L. r. Holbrook Fourth Cav
airy, was married to Miss Henrietta Cot
fin of Boise, Idaho, yesterday in the
chapel at the Preside by Chaplain Oliver
p Miller. The edifice was beautifully
decorated for the occasion, and the we'd
ding was a typical army one in all its
aspects. The wedding. march was played
by the Fourth's band The bride was
given away by her brother, Craig Coffin.
She was attended by Miss Faulke as her
maid of honor Lieutenant Munro was
the best man for the groom. The Off
GERS wore their full dress uniforms, while
the bride was clad in travelling. gown
of brown cloth. Lieutenant and Mrs.
Holbrook have left for a short trip. The
young officer is under orders to sail for
Manila in the near future. His bride will
follow him in the fall.
Captain Robert II. r. Loughborough,
Twenty-fifth Infantry, has been ordered
to Fort Bliss, Texas, to join his regiment.
Major Edward Field Second Artillery,
who has been critically i'll, has been
granted a leave of absence for one month
from the 9th of this month upon a sur
geon's certificate of disability. with a
permission to apply for an extension of
one month.
Guy Kearns, of the casual detachment,
died at the general hospital at the Pre-
sidio on Tuesday night of cerebro spinal
meningitis.