Show I fA Y AN aa I lD I fAMilY LIVES tea I LOVE T TRAGEDY AND Mf MYSTERY T f fIN IN CA CASE t Of W ti C. C O R Returned Soldier Told by Sister-in-Law Sister That Wife and Babies Died Diee of Flu Family Reported Found A ROMANTIC stor story combining A AROl the elements of love m mystery and tragedy its action stretching from rom the battlefields of France t to the plains of Kansas through Colorado to Salt Lake City and more morere re recently en y into Idaho has b been en unfolded through the efforts of ot members of ot the local lodge of Elks The central central figure In the narrative is W. W O. O Orr now residing at the Eccles Eccles Ecles Ec- Ec cles les hotel Blackfoot Ida WAS HE DECEIVED DECEIVED The plot hinges on on whether Mr Ir Orr has been deceived into believing that his wife and two children died while he was was in France or whether the wife wite and children still live and Mr Orr has grieved for many months without cause When the great war was at its height Mr Orr answered the call of ot patriotism patriot patriot- ism He waived all rights for exemption exemption exemption tion and joined the tank corps He went to France as one of ot the treat em rough boys and he saw action In several big battles The armistice signed Mr Orr re returned returned returned re- re turned to this country and went to Loveland Colo where he had left his family Arriving there he found the family had gone to Wichita Kan TOLD THEY WERE DEAD l Mr r. r Orr went to Wichita and there he says he was met by his wife's sis sis- sis sis- ter She practically collapsed he says when they met telling him between sobs that his wife wite and two children had died They were victims of the influenza Grief stricken Mr l Orr left Wichita I and for tor a time became a wanderer finding his greatest solace in visits to toI I various Elk lodges where the spirit of ot otI I brotherhood helped him to forget torget his great loss He lie finally settled at Blackfoot Blackfoot Black- Black foot toot and there engaged in business Recently he paid a visit to Salt Lake City and attended a a. meeting of ot the thel l cal lodge of ot Elks He there met Paul V. V Kelly whose brother was formerly exalted ruler of ot the Loveland eland lodge of Elks of ot which Mr Orr Is a member and after a quickly formed friendship told his sad story PLOTS PLOT TH THICKENS ICKENS Mr 11 Kelly wrote of ot the meeting to his brother There came in reply a letter front from the brother in which the startling news vs was given that Mrs Orr was not dead that she and her two children still lived and that they were anxious to find their missing husband and father Secretary Stevens of ot the the Loveland lodge wrote to Secretary Swift of ot the Salt Lake lodge verifying this report and asking that efforts be made to lo locate locate lo- lo o cate Bate Mr Orr and to clear up the mystery mys mys- tery PAID FUNERAL BILLS Mr Orr was informed yesterday that i his family still lived lIe He could not I believe it ft Visibly affected he explained ex explained ex- ex that before he left Kansas he I paid the doctor bills accruing from the illness of ot his wife and babies He had paid the funeral expenses He had seen leen the burial permit He still sUIl has the burial record Anxious to believe he yet et doubted It must be some other Orr he said for tor there there- are several families of ot that name in Colorado and Kansas But the news that has come to the Elks' Elks lodge is positive The secretary of or the Loveland lodge says that Mrs Orr and her two children are are alive The lodge officials have been In direct communication with her They have talked to her and have had letters from her SEEK SOLUTION If It this is is' is so if it there is Js not some gruesome twist of mistaken identity why was W. W O. O Orr called upon to pa pay the doctor bills billS' and the funeral expenses expenses expenses ex ex- Whence hence came the burial permit permit per per- per per-I mit mft Toda Today every effort is being made to clear the mystery The E Elks ks are bendIng bending bending bend- bend i ing every effort to clear away the shadows while Mr 11 Orr is praying that what he hopes is true but believes cannot annot be will win still sun turn out to tn be a fact tact and that a Joyous reunion may brine an end to the months of ot dark grief I i I I I |