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Wattford City, North Dakota, November 15th, 1930.

McKenzie County authorities today launched an investigation into the disappearance of an entire

family of six, missing since last February 10th.

Relatives fear the family has met with foul play.

The family is that of Mr. Mrs. Albert E. Haven and their four children, including two

sons, 16 and 19 years of age, a child aged three, and an infant.

The family resided on a farm two miles north of Schaefer.

It was at first believed that the family had gone to the Pacific coast, but efforts to trace them have proved unavailing. Charles Bannon, renter on the Haven farm,

has told authorities that he received a letter from Haven, postmarked Colton, Oregon, and dated February 17th.

It carried a return address of post office box number 79.

Communication with the postmaster at Colton has revealed no such post office box number.

Bannon says he has written several letters to the family, but all have been returned.

While McKenzie County authorities are not convinced the family is met with harm, they are

directing investigations along that line. The havens maintain no bank account in Watford City,

but have a safety deposit box in the local bank. In the deposit box were found two Canadian

government war loan bonds, each of $500

denomination, a certificate for $500 in share of an oil and gas company in Montana, a joint life

insurance policy for Mr. Mrs. Haven for $2,000, and a letter indicating a balance of $2,000 on deposit in the Bank of Toronto

at Mayswood, Saskatchewan on August 10, 1927. The family had lived near Schaefer about 15 years

and was regarded as being well-to-do. A number of relatives live in Oregon and Washington, and none of them

know anything of the whereabouts of the family they have advised authorities. The havens were

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