The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-18
THE DEATH OF
HUGH TEVIS
His Wedding Journey TragicalIy
and Suddenly Ended at
Yokohama.

Hugh Tevis is dead in Yokohama and
his beautiful young bride h keeping
her lonely vigil preparatory to sail
ing for home next Tuesday by the
Doric, which is due to arrive in this
city June 18th. The most meager cable
from Mrs. Tevis, under date Of June
9Th, was received in this city yester-
day, and similar message was sent
to her father, George w. Baxter of
Denver. They read: Hugh dead.
Return to San Francisco June 29th."
Messages of coincidence and inquiry
were hurried over continent and under
ocean, but up to late hour last night
no answers had been received.
The Tevis family in this city sent
anxious kilograms to Denver for fur
Their word, and in turn the Baxter fam
lily wired here in hope Of getting some
thing more definite. But nothing will
avail to mitigate the misery of the
long Sorrowful homecoming and the
anxious waiting here of the bereaved
families Mr.. and Mrs. Baxter will
come on from Denver in time to meet
their daughter.
good part of the world was talking of
the marriage of this young Californian
millionaire and Cornelia Baxter, con-
ceded by people on two continents to
be one of the most beautifuI girls of
her generation. Then, too, there was
no end of comment on the fact that at
the very time that Miss Baxter became
the bride of Hugh Tevis she was to
have been led to the altar by Gerald
j. Hughes, a prominent young man
of Denver Mrs. Tevis is not yet nine
teen years of age, but into her short
life have been crowded experiences
enough to fill all the days Of an ordi-
nary woman. She has had Paris raw
ing about her beauty, she has been
wooed at home and abroad, and in
two short months has been wife and
widow.
The wedding of Hugh TeviS and
Cornelia Baxter took place in this city
on the 10th of last April at the Palace
Hotel, and was witnessed only by the
| immediate members of the Tevis and
Baxter families. 1t followed a three
| weeks betrothal, which commences at
| Del Monte. The bride and groom spent
| a few days In Santa Cruz county, and
after going to Monterey to look over
| the handsome home Hugh Tevis was
building there they came to this city
| and sailed for Japan on further Bird
al trip, and in order that they might
get some things for their luxurious
dovecote Each returning steamer
has brought some word from the hap
Ply wanderers, and not word was
said of i'll health. News of Mr.. Tevis'
While he has not been in perfect
health for some years, there was no
need for apprehension He has been
suffering from neuritis, but recently
enjoyed rest from this distressing af-
| Fiction. At no time has it made an
| invalid of him.
| Hugh Tevis was the second son OF
| the late millionaire, Lloyd Teyis. Some
ten years ago he married Miss Alice
Boalt, daughter of the late Judge
Boalt, formerly of the firm of CARRIER.
BoaIt & Bishop After short married
| life she died, leaving one little daugh-
| ter, Alice, who is at present in Oak
land with her grandmother counting
| the days until her father and her
pretty mamma" should return. The
devotion between Hugh Tevis and his
daughter was so intense as to be al
most unusual. He seemed to bestow
upon her his own love and that of
the mother who was gone, and his de-
votion never permitted him to go far
| from her. Most of the chiId's time
1 has been spent with her maternal
| grandmother, but when she was little
more than a babe Hugh Tevis would
take her, attended by a nurse, out Of
town for the entire summer. She was
with her father in Monterey when
Cornelia Baxter came into their lives.
and 1t is said that the love of the child
for the pretty girl was what first at
| tracted his attention.
News of the death of Hugh Tevis
will follow the Will Tevises and Miss
Florence Breckenridge 10 Europe and
will change the happy holiday they
had planned. They sailed from New
York about a month ago and had in
tended to remain abroad the greater
part of the year. Miss Florence Brock
| inridge was abroad with her mother.
| Mrs. Sharon, when her grandfather
died, and 1t is more than likely that
she will again come home to her be-
reaved grandmother in whose home
she has been reared.
There will be the greatest possible
interest in the young widow whose
| beauty and marriage had brought her
SO prominently before the public. She
was born in Tennessee, but was taken
| to Cheyenne, Wyo., when she was a
little child. There her father, an in
| f1uential Democrat, served as Cover
nor, receiving his appointment from
| President Cleveland. He made money
| III cattle. Later the Baxter family re-
moved to Denver and the young Cor
nelia was sent East to school. After
ward she went to Paris, where her
beauty brought her fame. 1t was on
her return from abroad that she be-
came engaged to Gerald Hughes, and
her trip to California, which resulted
in her marriage to Hugh Tevis, was
because she had been i'll with typhoid
fever, and the Baxter family thought
that season in California, where
preparations for the wedding could be
made as well as in the East, would
/ be the wisest plan.
And now come the conjectures as to
what this lovely widow will do. Will
she return to Colorado with her family
and the millions that will come to her
through the laws of this State, or will
she complete the beautiful hacienda on
the cliffs above the breakers in Mon
| terey and live in the home which was
| to have been the realization of the
fondest dream of her devoted husband
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