SURPRISE VALLEY RECORD - CEDARVILLE, MODOC COUNTY, CAL. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1934 Irma Cummins TO GRADUATE FROM MILLS COLLEGE Miss Irma E. Cummins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Cummins, of Cedarville, will be one of the Mills College Seniors to receive a Bachelor of Arts degree on graduation day at Mills (last Monday). The commencement exercises for about seventy seniors, of which Miss Cummins is partaking, will be held in the Greek theatre at Mills College on Monday, June 11th, at 10:30 a. m. Miss Cummins attended the elementary school at Cedarville and graduated from the Surprise Valley Union High School in June 1930. She, being of the upper five per cent of the graduating class, was accepted as one of the recommended freshmen for Mills College in the fall of 1930. In one year at Mills College, she proved to be an able student, one who took part in all activities from the Freshmen Folk Follies to the Christmas miracle play and one who especially showed skill and aptitude for all sports. During her freshman year, she was a member of the hockey, basketball, and baseball teams and was elected to the All-Star Basketball team. During the other three years, Miss Cummins has continued her sport activities and been a member of the Music Club, the Spanish Club and the Athletic Association. Not only has she gone out for athletics, but also for dramatics for she has taken minor parts in college productions and has had experience on the technical staff of plays. Miss Cummins has majored in Education and Music with minors in History and Spanish and has completed one year of supervised practice teaching in the Oakland Schools in addition to her academic work. Her success as a student teacher is assured, for she is being passed with distinction by the mills College education department and will receive a general elementary teaching credential with her B. A. Degree. As recognition of her scholarship, Miss Cummins has received three student awards while in college, thus enabling her, financially, to complete her four years at the finest woman’s college in the West. The RECORD, along with a host of interested friends, extends heartiest congratulations to Miss Cummins upon her fine achievements. We understand she will make a tour of Europe this year and further pursue her study in music. BREEZY NEWS NOTES FROM ALTURAS Mr. and Mrs. William Gaddy, of Taft, Cal., arrived in Alturas Saturday to visit for a couple of weeks with Mrs. Gaddy’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Ballard. William Morrison, of Chico, Cal., arrived in Alturas Thursday to get his wife, Mrs. Morrison and daughter, Katherine, have been visiting relatives here for the past ten-days. Mrs. Minnie Heard of Lake City returned to her home Saturday after spending the week in Alturas, attending the Board of Education meeting. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ballard made a trip to Medford, Oregon, Saturday returning home Sunday. Born in Alturas, Cal., June 9, 1934, to Mrs. Perry Essex an 8-pound daughter – Sharion Rae Essex. Mother and daughter are doing nicely. Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Cook of Eagleville, were business visitors here Saturday; they were accompanied by Mrs. Cook’s mother, Mrs. Guill. Mrs. Quimby of Lake City was brought to the General Hospital Sunday for treatment. Mrs. Jack Layton of Susanville, Cal., is visiting with her sister, Mrs. Hazzie Spicer and Mrs. Leon Estes, of this place. LOCAL COUPLE MARRY AT Reno FRIDAY Coming as a general surprise to their many friends in Cedarville and Surprise Valley is the marriage of Albert E. Tandy, agriculture teacher of the S. V. Union High School and Miss Ellen Bailey, who has had charge of the Telephone Companies business in Cedarville for a number of years. Leaving Alturas at noon Friday, June 9th, the happy couple journeyed to Reno and arrived there about 4:20 and were married that evening. We are informed they will motor to the Southern part of the State for a honeymoon trip. Their many friends extend congratulations and best wishes to the newly weds and may they live long and prosper. NEWSY NEW PINE CREEK NOTES Miss Emmie fisher had a bad auto wreck between here and Lakeview last Saturday, which happened neat the Thuston place. A tire blew out, throwing the car out of the road, the car turned over, breaking Miss Fisher’s arm and otherwise badly bruising her about the body. Miss Fisher was taken to a Lakeview hospital and is under Dr. Leithead’s care. Mrs. Ona Wallace and her daughter, Miss Roma, went by auto to Bly last Sunday; they went to get Mrs. Wallace’s son, Dale, who has been visiting in that city for a week. They returned on Monday evening. Mrs. Elsie Green left recently for Oakland, Cal., where she will be under the care of an ear specialist. When a telegram was sent to Albert Keller notifying him of the death of his brother, Edward E. Keller, recently, a service was received on the telegram stating that he had passed away about a month ago. Later another service on the telegram was received stating that the first service was false and from Earl Butler the writer learned that word was received that he had died again; and later learned from a relative that he was headed south and intended to pay New Pine Creek his usual visit this summer. So we ate anxiously awaiting the arrival of our good friend so he can tell us why Seattle had him dead on two occasions. FIVE MURDERED AT Susanville MONDAY Susanville, Cal., June 11, - A family feud claimed the lives of five Susanville residents last night. The dead are Mr. and Mrs. Joe Fezio, their son and daughter, Sadie and John Fezio, 22 and 26, respectively, and Mrs. Anna Aminiani, 42. The alleged murderer was Caesar allozi, a mill hand. The trouble started last night when Allozi went to the Fezio home. He stabbed Fezio to death in the bathtub, stabbed Mrs. Fezio to death in the hallway. John Fezio also met his death there. Mrs. Amistani and Sadie Fezio jumped into an automobile and started up the highway. Allozi jumped in another and followed them. He caught up to the car in which the women were fleeing, jumped into the machine and stabbed to death Mrs. Aminiani, who was driving. The Fezio girl jumped out of the automobile and started to run up the highway. He caught up with her and stabbed her to death also. A posse, headed by Sheriff Leavitt, apprehended the man and he is in the Lassen County jail. The only reason advanced by Allozi for the multiple murders was that it was just an old family feud, which had been brewing for about three years. "I decided to end it all last night," said Allozi this morning. Both Fezio and Allozi were mill hands. Susanville is aghast at the multiple murders. (1:5) MODOC MOUNDS ARE MYSTERIES RANGER DISCOVERS ROCK HEAPS THAT MAY DENOTE GRAVES OF IMMIGRANTS Last fall while riding around on his daily duties Forest Ranger Alvin L. Parker, in charge of the north Warners’ District of the Modoc national Forest discovered a number of peculiar rock mounds in Fandango Valley east of Willow Ranch. Later investigation showed that there were almost 100 of these mounds placed in irregular rows. No accurate guess can be made as to their identity but much local curiosity was aroused because of the fact a large emigrant train was massacred nearby during the middle ‘50’s. Later, a forest service employee picked up a fragment of a skull close to where the rock mounds are located. VALLEY IS HISTORICAL Fandango valley is replete with early western history. Now covered with abandoned farmsteads fast falling to ruin it was once a well-watered valley with pine timber coming to the edge of the meadows and bottomlands. It was first mentioned by Lindsay Applegate, who with a party of eleven men in 1846 blazed the trail later known as the Applegate Trail or South Route from Williamette Valley to the Humboldt River, Applegate’s party, not long from the eastern states themselves, were made homesick by the clusters of mountain mahogany, which he afterwards stated reminded them of the apple orchards back home. EMIGRANTS WERE MASSACRED The exact year is unknown but sometime in the middle ‘50’s a large emigrant party, following the Applegate trail but ignorant of their exact whereabouts broke over the summit of the Warner Mountains to a view of Goose Lake, then a large body of water, gleaming in the sunshine. The sight so impressed them after the long trek through the Nevada deserts, many of them believing they had reached their journey’s end, that they hastily made camp and staged a dance or fandango by way of celebration. While the festivity was at its height, a band of Indians, which had been hanging on the trail of the emigrants for days, burst in on the party and killed every member. The story developed years afterward from the burned wagons and from the Indians themselves. Within the last quarter of a century residents picked up parts of wagons and pocketknives and found the remains of human skeletons. INDIANS ARE ANNIHILATED Fandango Valley was the scene of many later Indian fights but none so disastrous as this one. Settlers and United States Cavalrymen, working together, retaliated in 1866, when they fought a band of the same Indians and practically annihilated them. Moving of one of the rock mounds and digging in the soil beneath discloses no disturbance of the earth beneath and not even the oldest settler in this locality can give any clue as to their origin nor as to whether they were the work of white man or red. They will probably remain one of the mysteries of the old Emigrant Trail through this section. FORT Bidwell HIGHLIGHTS Mrs. Harry Schadler has been seriously ill at her home north of Bidwell. At this writing she is somewhat improved. A cousin of Fred Ash, Irene Stumblefield, is here from Medford, Oregon, visiting at the Ash home. Mrs. Ella Neasham is visiting at Eagleville this week, with her daughter, Mrs. Charles Nolan. Fred Stanley and wife and baby are here from Walnut Creek, visiting Mrs. Grace Stanley of this place and Mrs. and Mrs. E. J. Sharp, of Long Valley. Mr. and Mrs. R.L. Whitlock, who have been seriously ill at the Modoc General hospital for several weeks since they were injured in an automobile crash, which claimed the life of Joe Oard, are improving. Mrs. Whitlock is able to walk. Two marriage license applications were taken out in the courthouse Monday. Wilbur nay of Davis Creek, Cal., and Luella Neasham, of Fort Bidwell were one of the couples; Pete Anderson and Jean Thomas of the Peterson – Johnson lumber company was the other couple. NEWSY NOTES FROM LAKE CITY Measles seem to have broken out in the Soldier Creek vicinity. We understand the George Heard, Mervin Toney, M. Quimby and Mrs. Josephine Toney families have them. Mrs. Marlyn Quimby was rushed to the General Hospital at Alturas Sunday night suffering with a severe case of peritonitis, we are informed. LOCAL JOTS Davie Grove, Sr., stampeded off the home range recently and journeyed to Davis Creek, where he attended the meeting of the Davis Creek Farm Center. At that place he met J. D. Webb, an old-time friend, whom he had expected. ~~~~~~ Billie C. & Anita 'Jean' Reynolds Modoc County, California "The Last Frontier" www.rh2o.com/modoc --- Our outgoing mail is checked by avast! AntiVirus. Avast! Is Free To Home Users.