SURPRISE VALLEY RECORD, CEDARVILLE, MODOC COUNTY, CAL
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1935
ONE OF THE OLDEST RECORD SUBSCRIBERS RENEWS
Here’s my subscription money; and you’d better stop my paper was the
startling announcement that came from W. E. Rinehart last Monday morning. Ye
Ed. gladly took his subscription money, but queried to Rinehart, if he
really wanted his paper stopped. Nope, he says, I have taken the Record for
the past 43 years, ever since it was started publication and it’s just a
part of my weekly routine, to sit down and read the Valley Record. We might
state here that Mr. Rinehart is one of the oldest of the record subscribers.
FORT BIDWELL HIGH LIGHTS
Billie Crow has been nursing a sprained knee the past week, thus
necessitating a pair of crutches.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Rolly Allen, former residents of Fort Bidwell, a
daughter at the general hospital in Alturas, November 1st.
MUMMIFIED MAN IS FOUND BY WARDEN
The mummified body of a man found in the Lava Beds Sunday, has been
identified as that of Cecil A. Mowrer, Klamath Falls tractor salesman. The
gruesome find was made by Game Warden, A. A. Jordan, while on patrol duty
five miles west of Timbered Mountain.
Noticing a 1935 tan Chevrolet Coupe secreted in a thicket, Jordan
investigated, only to find the appalling sight of a man, apparently a
suicide sitting upright in the right hand side of the car, with the entire
top of his head blown off. Jordan after ascertaining that the car was locked
from the inside hastened to the nearby Shaw-Bertram lumber mill from where
he notified the Sheriff and coroner, who left immediately for the scene of
the tragedy.
It was necessary for the officers to force the door in order to make their
investigation. It was found the Mowrer had placed the weapon on the floor of
the car, removed his shoes and used his feet to discharge the gun. The
bullet from the lethal weapon, a 30-06 Springfield rifle, entered the left
side of the victims’ head emerging and ranging up through the top of the
car.
Contents of a grip and operator’s license identification, Mowrer, a man 42
years of age, brown hair, blue eyes, weight 180 pounds and height of 6 feet.
Letters found in the grip dated prior to Septembers 15th, combined with the
badly decomposed remains, fixed the date of suicide at about that date.
Further lending evidence to his theory was the fact that a rat’s nest had
been built beneath the hood of the car and the exploded shell in the rifle
was badly corroded.
While no money or other valuables were found on the person of Mowrer,
deposit slips on a Klamath Falls bank revealed him as a man of moderate
means.
The victim resided at 2135 Lacey Street in the Oregon City.
Mowrer’s wife and the Klamath County Coroner were notified at once and the
remains were removed to that city Monday.
Coroner Kerr’s official findings were to the effect that death was due to a
gun shot wound self-inflicted.
Jordan, who has been stationed at the main office in San Francisco, for the
past two months, had resumed his local patrol for the first time Sunday,
following his return from the bay city recently. (1:4)
ALTURAS NOTES
Mrs. Robert Wade of Lakeview spent last Sunday in Alturas visiting with
friends.
Born in Alturas, November 1, 1935, to the wife of John Drown, a 7 and a
half-pound baby girl. Both mother and daughter are doing nicely.
BREAKS ANKLE
John Davis, Jr., Forest Ranger at the Buck Ranger Station was taken to an
Alturas hospital last week with a broken ankle and several broken ribs and
minor bruises, resulting from an auto accident in Cedar Canyon. The accident
happened near the Forest Service Camp ground and was caused by a bent radius
rod on the small pickup he was driving; he could not make the turn in the
highway and his car went over the embankment, rolling over several times.
LAKE CITY NEWS NOTES
Cold, well yes! 7 degrees below zero Saturday night and 9 degrees below
Sunday night by the government thermometer at Grover Wimers place.
Pat Campbell is quite ill. Dr. Coppedge at Alturas is attending him.
Mr. and Mrs. Ethelbert Harris left this week for the lower country, where
they will take over the management of Mrs. Harris’ mother’s farm at Los
Molinas.
NEWS NOTES FROM NEW PINE CREEK
Some people go to Reno to get a divorce but nothing like this for New Pine
Creek folks. They go there to get married. We mentioned last week about
Verna Cook and Murle Chappell getting married there recently and this wee,
we have the pleasure of announcing about another couple from her getting
married at that city. They are Thomas Elliott and Burnie Gordon, who were
wed there on Monday of last week. The happy young couple returned to the
state line town on Tuesday and have taken up their residence in Mrs. Nellie
Sniders home. The writer joins with others in wishing all happiness and
success to the young couple.
Another New Pine Creek couple were married November 30, (this should be
possibly October 30) they were Leola Walker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Pettys and William Smith, son of Mrs. Della Smith. The young couple had
first decided to be married on November 9th, but suddenly went to Lakeview,
looked up Judge Fred Reynolds, who tied the knot, so that is the wedding
lost to the Nevada City. The Pettys arrived here from The State of Nebraska,
Mr. Petty being in charge of the E. W. Follett stock farm.
Mr. and Mrs. Arlie Thompson of Central Point are visiting relatives and
friends here. Mrs. Thompson is a daughter of Mrs. Lydia Smith.
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Billie C. & Anita 'Jean' Reynolds
Family Researcher of "The Last Frontier"
Modoc County, California
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