Show TWO VO MADE ORPHANS BY IDAHO TRAGEDY MERIDIAN Idaho Oct 24 By By ByThe The Associated Press Funeral services servIces services ices were held here today for Roy RoyH H H. Cooksley Mineral Springs Ark the father whom death denied a sight of or his motherless child Destitute and andon andon on the verge of or a it collapse he stag- stag gored sered from a a. Union Pacific train here herp Thursday to claim his two children only to die from malaria fever early the next morning Cooksley sought rought the children brought by the mother molher to Idaho when she deserted him to answer the matrimonial matri main matrimonial advertisement ad of Ross Hand- Hand Handley Handle Handley ley le Boise valley bachelor The moth moth- mother mothen er en died In August a short time after her arrival leaving an infant daugh daugh- daughter daughten ter ten and a a. year old son The children were taken by the Childrens Children's home but their adoption was opposed vigorously by the father They are all I have base in this world he answered adding he would come for them as soon as his health would permit Advice from Mineral Springs showed Mr 1 Cooksley without relatives anc and without property so the year old father was burled buried here today by the grave prave of or his wife and custody of or the children was retained by the Chil Children's Childrens drens dren's home |