The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-04-04
tilted HER LOVER
CorneIia Baxter Prefers Hugh
lewis of Frisco.
COLD DEAL FOR HUGHES
Who Bought Presents and
Prepared for Wedding.
COLD DEAL FOR HUGHES

| Denver, Col, April S.-Jilted four weeks
before his wedding day-that is the lot Of
Gerald Hughes. scion of one of Denver's
richest and proudes families And the
girl who has thrown him over is Miss
Cornelia Baxter, the most beautiful girl
in Colorado. She viii walk to another
altar within a month with another man
Hugh Tevis, san Francisco's millionaire
golfer and general all-round good fellow.
Society is wild with the gossip Of it.
Everybody kne what Miss Baxter and
Mr.. Hughes were engaged. The wedding
| day was set, the bridesmaids and ushers
chosen and invited, the trousseau ordered,
the linen embroidered &C. H" and the en-
gagement ring purchased.
Denver had been chosen for the spring
time wedding. The wedding invitations
were in --4e engravers hands and a mag
njfcent silver table service-gfft of the
parents of the bridegroom to- be-was al
most completed. Mr. Hughes had bought
the site for a home to which he could
bring his beautiful bride-the course of
true love was running very smoothly.
The Baxters went to California for a
little visit, going to San Diego and Coro-
nado Beach, Monterey, and Santa Cruz
and San h francisco. They are there now,
and the engagement of Miss Baxter to
Hugh Tevis, son of the late multi-million-
aire, Lloyd Tevis, has been formally an
nounced at the Palace Hotel Young Mr.
Hughes had left Miss Baxter but a few
weeks before to come home to take
charge OF the business of his father, who
had been suddenly taken i'll.
1t was then that Mr.. Tevis came on the
scene-rich, popular, himself a widOwer
and the father Of a 10-year-old girl. He
was building a beautiful villa there at
Del Monte. He met Miss Baxter. It was
love at first sight. and in q fortnight
there was a brief note going back to Den
yer. There was ne management ring
slipped on a taper finger one afternoon
while the rich Californian was driving
with the beautiful Colorado belle.
I'VE win not return to Denver, just
now" wrote the Baxters back to Den
yer. THE wedding viii be very quiet
one in San Francisco"
But the news reach Mr.. Hughes even
more quickly than the note Of dismissal
Telegraphic news of the formal announce
ment reached here from San Francisco.
A reporter called on Mr. Hughes to veri-
fly it. He turned crimson first; then deadly
pale. The news haG stunned the young
man. He would say nothing. Today he
has spoken, and bitterly, too:
1.-THE first heard of Miss Bakers en-
gagement to Mr.. Tevis was when the re-
porter came to me-" said he. THE last
I had heard of the Baxter family they
were soon to return to Denver. Miss Bax-
ter had gone to Monterey to recover from
an attack of pneumonia"
The second wooing was but for a short
two weeks. Lnere on the golf links, on
the sun-kissed beaches, in the cool live
oak gloves and driving down the white
shell roads, Mr.. Tevis pleaded his suit.
Day by gay they went to watch the work
on his villa, and when he slipped on the
ring that he had in waiting, the Denver
belle let it stay there. Her note to her
fance who waited her homecoming In
Denver was short and to the point It
simply told that Miss Baxter had conclud-
ed that he and she could never be life
long companions.
Denver society sides with young Mr..
Hughes, who is most popular in the
smartest set. Maids and matrons alike
are going out of their way to congratu-
late the fitted one on his escape. His
friends, however are greatly incensed
and his family make no secret Of their
indignation. The gossips are wondering,
too. how the future Mrs. Tavis would be
received by her former intimates should
she return at any time TO Denver.
The Baxters came to Denver a few
years ago. Mr.. Baxter was a wealthy
cattleman. and the family lived on a
great rancho in Wyoming President
Clevelan- appointed Mr.. Baxter COVER
nor of the territory. Last autumn Miss
Baxter. after a finishing in Paris, made
her formal debut.
She brought back laurels from abroad.
At the Grand Prix her marvellous beauty
was the talk Of the gay world, and sew
eral impressionable Frenchmen in vain
sought the pleasure of her glance. Ger
aid Hughes was even then an accepted
suitor He returned on the same steamer
with the Baxters. Since then she has
been the belle of Denver. with her superb
figure. pure blonoe hair, her violet eyes
and her Grecian features