The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-08-16
CAPTAIN BUSH
SUED BY WIFE
An Army Officer of the Tenth
Wanted Spouse to Read
the Bible.

The San Francisco papers of late date
have been full of the divorce suit filed
in Winnemucca, Nevada, by Mrs. Ross
L. Bush, the wife of Captain Bush OF
the Tenth Infantry, which recently left
this city for Alaska. He is called the
| Hermit Captain in the Coast papers
though while in this city he was fire.
quently TO be seen at the hotel dances
and other festivities. He was quite pop
ular in this city, and no idea of his
being hermit was thought of here.
The San Francisco Call of August 3
has the following to say of the divorce
suit:
That the tongue of army gossip had
not been wagging without cause for a
! year over the domestic affairs of Cap
tain Ross L. Bush was made plain yes
/ terday, when news reached the Pre-
sidio that the beautiful wife of the her
nit captain had brought suit against
him for divorce in far off Winnemucca
For year the Sagebrush State has
been the intermittent home of the DASH
ing wife of the army officer, who was
getting a legal residence in the COM
PLEASANT commonwealth in order to
bring the action which would release
her from the chains she found irk-
some.
She alleged cruelty as the cause of
the action; not physical abuse, but
mental.
According to the complaint, Captain
Bush refused to spend any time with
his accomplished wife in the gay
amenities of army and civilian social
life He preferred to read the Bible
assiduously and insisted that his wife
listen every night to long excerpts from
the sacred pages. Mrs. Bush processes
genuine admiration for the Bible as a
literary specimen and great devotion
to it as holy writ, but she intimates
that as exclusive mental diet it leaves
aching voids which light novels only
might fill and as means OF recreation
there was still demand for parties,
balls and receptions, pink teas and
fashions functions with which the cap
tain would have nothing to do.
She could not stay home every night,
she says, and listen to the gospel ac-
cording to ST. John, or the second
chapter of Genesis Even the songs of
Solomon, for which it does not appear
the captain had any particular prefer
ence, We're not competent to supply the
need for mental excitement which was
a normal part of Mrs. Bush's person
atty.
No breath of Islander ever sug
gested anything to the detriment of the
army officers wife. But, you know
they said, "she will not stand that sort
of treatment. He is trying to make a
recluse of her"
The son of Mars, Captain Bush, fight
ing man for Uncle Sam, was cultivating
the more peaceful attributes of the
cloister and the church, so when Mrs.
Bush went away. quietly, many wise
ones said: ut is the beginning of the
end" She sent her two little girls to
Monterey with their nurse and, taking
her invalid son, departed. Her friends
retired to discuss the situation and the
captain returned to his Bible.
Mrs Bush is the daughter Of General
Joseph r. Grard, retired. 1t was
while he was stationed in this city at
the uedO Vi Tie lICdASS4 1SPeNA NAAA1AAN
that Mrs. Bush and her two sisters
attracted so much attention as beau
ties. Their title to being the three
most beautiful women in army society
was never challenged. One sister mar
ried Captain J. Kerwin of the Thir-
teenth Infantry and is now at Monte
rev; the other sister married Isaac Z.
jerks of the Twenty-fourth Infantry
in Manila.
Though still young, being hardly
past 80, Mrs. Bush is the mother OF
three children. to all of whom she is
devotedly attached. She asks that their
custody be awarded to her.