The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1907-08-08

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ed Aug. 5 sheds light upon a drama
which is of special interest to Winnie
mucca people, inasmuch as the lady
in the case has made this her home for
the past year. The dispatch says:
That the tongue of army goss p
had not been wagging without cause
Capt Ross l.. Bush of Alcatraz was
made plain Saturday when news
reached the Eresidio that the beauti-
full wife of the hermit captain had
brought SUIT against him for divorce
in the far off town of Winnemueca
For year the sagebrush state fas
been the intermittent home of the
dashing wife of the army officer. who
was getting legal residence IN the
complaisant commonwealth in ord to
bring the action which would rel, ase
her from the chains she found irk-
some.
Alleges Cruelty.
She alleged cruelty as the cause OF
the action; not physical abuse, ut
mental.
According to the complaint Captain
Bush refused to spend any time with
his accomplished wife in the gay
amenitis sof army and civilian so ial
life. He preferred to read the Biolo
assiduously and insisted that his wife
listen every night to long excerpts
from the sacred pages. Mrs. Bush
protests genuine admiration for tho
Bible as literary specimen and great
devotion to it as holy writ, but she
intimates that as an exclusive mental
diet it leaves aching voids which lght
novels only might fill and as means
for recreation there was still de
mand for parties, balls and recep-
tions, pink teas and fashion IS func-
tions with which the captain would
have nothing to do.
She could not stay home every
night, she says, and listen to the gos
pei according to st John, or the see
end chapter of Genesis. Even the
songs of solomon, for which il es
not appear that the captin had any
particular preference, were not com
petent to supply the need for m al
excitement which was normal part
of Mrs. Bush's personality.
Scandals Mouth Shut.
For more than year these things
have been whispered about the Pre-
sidio, where Mrs. Bush, by her beauty
and manner, had won the affection OF
all the women and high regard of the
officers. The tongue of gossip was
busy, but scandals mouth was shut
tight. No breath of SANDER ever sug-
gestcd anything to the dctriment of
the young officers wife. But, you
know they said, she will not stand
that sort of treatment. He is try ng
TO make a recluse of her,
Beginning Of the End.
The husband of Mrs. Captain Bush,
fighting man for Uncle Sam, was cul-
tivating the more peaceful attributes
of the cloister and the church. SO
when Mrs. Bush went away quietly,
many wise one said: 'It is the beg n
ming of the end She sent her two
little girls TO Monterey with their
nurse and, taking her son, depar,od
Her friends retired TO discuss the SIT
uation aud the captain returned to
his Bible.
Occasionally for the past year Mrs.
Bush emerged from the void into
which she has slipped and appeared
for week or two at Monterey, where
she is devoted. Then she would go
away again and the gossps would
wonder once more M an me Cant
Bush was sent to Alcatraz. where, like
st Paul or Patmos he gave himself
up to his devotions.
Cruel Treatment.
The report which reached the Pre-
sidio Saturday of tn divorce com
plant settled all the inquiries. and
the action of Mrs. Bush was condoned
by many friends. rhe allegations
made by Mrs. Bush against her hus-
band are altogether confined to com
plants of his treatment of her in
thought and at itude rather than in
act. He oil jected to her taking pleas
ure in life and to her devotion to the
happiness of living He thought her
frivolous when she was only full of
joy. lie thought her undutifal when
she only desired attention aud those
expressions of affection which warm
and sunny natures delight in. But he,
she claims, loved not the world nor
the things that are in the world and
could not understand nature which,
craved them as flowers crave sun
light. So they agreed to dsagr e.
She took up residence at Winnemuc-
ca, on the wind-swept desert of east.
ern Nevada, and he escaped with his
hiDlo 10 Alcatraz, where no spent ms
lime proftably as he saw profit, and
she gained a years residence in Neva-
da as a basis for divorce proceedings.
"Thus endeth, say the army pco-
pie, "a romance and a swell we ding
ip which ono OF the most beautiful OF
army girls was made the bride of u
gallant captain
Mrs. Bush is the daughter of Gen.
eral Joseph II. Girard, retired II
was while he was. stationed in this
city at the head of the medical depart.
ment that Mrs. Bush and her two
sisters attracted so much attention as
beauties Their title to being tha
three most beautiful women in army
society was never challenged. Ono
sister married Captain J. kcrwin u