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PAGE FOURTEEN Picnickers Take Over Cave Lair From Pirates By Ed IIahey . - , . Cave-In-Rock, 111. tilt A lare cave which has become a popular spot for Sunday school picnics once sheltered bloodthirsty river pirates and some ol the most dan gerous criminals in the history of the middle west. From their cave hideout, pirates foraged along the unto river, plundering rich cargo boats bound for New Orleans. Cutthroats like the Harpe brothers of North Car olina, the Samuel Mason gang and dozens of less famous out laws sought refuge hero. Cut in a limestone bluff over looking the river, the cave is 25 feet wide, 35 feet high and 150 feet ' long. Geologists believe it was formed by water which per iodically empties out of big sink holes nearby and drains through underground channels. The cave was mentioned first by a French explorer who came down the river in 1729 and it lat er provided shelter to colonial traders and passing mound build ers. ; Near the close of the 18th century, however, it became no torious as a haven for renegades that even the most turbulent riv er communities didn't want. ' Many Murdered ; Its notoriety sprang from a "Liquor Vault and House of En tertainment" inside the cave which lured thirsty river men. A surprising number of them left feet first and their bodies were taken downstream and dumped into the river from Hurricane Is-land.-.- The "Liquor Vault" was closed eventually by popular demand. Then outlaw gangs, numerically superior to any local posses, holed up In the cave, where they could get a good look at passing river traffic. The boats that appeared lucrative were plundered and the passengers usually killed. The Harpe brothers, Wiley and Micajah, outdid all the other vll Hans who inhabited the outlaw refuge. They once . crept up be hind a pair of young lovers-who. were sitting on the 40-foot bluff overlooking the cave and pushed them to their deaths. Later, they tied a man to a horse and drove the horse .off the bluff. Their "pranks" were too vicious even for the : . other murderers among the cave dwellers and the Harpes were soon asked to take up residence elsewhere. Battle Casualties In Korea Total 79.823, Announced Washington, July 26 (IPi The defense department reported to day, that American battle casual ties. In Korea now total 79,723, an increase of 584 over the last report a week ago. . -; The total casualties reflect the number whose next of kin have been notified through last Fri day; and not necessarily the num ber of casualties that occurred through that date. It requires one to three weeks to notify next, of kin. The total casualties included. 13,340 deaths, 54.248 wounded, 10, 634 missing, 159 captured, - and 1,342 previously reported missing, but returned to military duty. ,, A breakdown by services showed: Breakdown Given Army 65,221 casualties, 11,080 deaths, 42,837 wounded, 9,867 missing,-156 captured, 1,281 pre viously reported missing but re turned to military duty. , . Navy 921 casual ties, 157 deaths, 687 wounded, 73 missing, 4 ' previously ; reported missing, but returned to military duty.xz Marine Corps 12,880 casual ties, 1,903 deaths, 10,696 wound ed, 261 missing; 20 previously reported missing but returned to duty. .', ' . Air Force 701 casualties, 200' deaths, 28 wounded, . 433 missing, 3 captured, 37 previously -reported missing but returned to active duty. T THE BEND BULLETIN. BEND. OREGON THURSDAY, JULY ?$, 1991 i'.Mft Br-"" V.7 .. ' GIANT AND MIDGET Frankte Saluto, midget clown with the, Ringling Bros, and Barnum and Bailey circus, looks even smaller, 1 ' when he gets vp against the world's largest Incandescent light bulb, 50,000-watt giant that produces as much light as one thousand 100-watt household lamps. Built by GE as a stunt In 1929,,for "Light's Golden Jubilee," no practical use was found for the bulb, i until it was used recently in the fuming of a circus movie under; ... the big top. Letter of Martin Luther's Thought Foun d in Finland , EXTRACURRICULAR Coventry, Eng., July 26 ilP Professional beer-taster Richard D. Bell was fined $56 yesterday for drunken driving. Hearing Aid Batteries FOR ALL MAKES HEARING AIDS Hearing aid users will be pleased to know that We now carry a complete line of fresh hearing aid batteries that fit your hearing aid. We can du plicate the batteries 31011 now use. Identify through compar ison of battery trade name, battery number, and voltage. Compare our local service with your, hard to reach source. We are happy to offer this complete battery service for the convenience of hearing aid users. Helsinki, Finland' IP) An old Finnish forester foraging through an antique trunk is believed to have found a letter Martin Lu ther wrote to his wife in 1541, five years before his death. Two Finnish experts said tha letter, oh grey, hand-made paper. appeared to be genuine. How it came to Finland was a mystery because the text nas appeared before in books and Luthur's let ters published in Germany. , In the letter, dated Sept. 18. the great Protestant advised his wife to remain calm, apparently in the face of the threat to cen tral Europe by tne rampaging Ottoman forces of Suleiman I. which captured Budapest only a few weeks oeiore. The letter, like most letters be fore and since, complained that Frau Luther had not written him for soiua time. . - lext of Letter The letter said: "To Kaethe Luther, "Oeutsch. Wittenberg the 18th September 1541. - -V ... . "G.U.F. (abb re vat ion for Gnade und Friede grace . and peace).: V 1 v "Dear .Kaethe, I herewith have Urban run to you so you shall not be frightened If clamor from the Turks gets to you. And I wonder that you do not write or (one word untranslatable) al though you well know that we ar not without worries for you, because Melnz,' Heinz and many of the noblemen of Meissen are very cultivated. Sell and order what' you can . . . and God will meet our sin, with the rods of his anger. Herewith God bless you. . 1 ' . "Amen. ' - "Sunday after Lampertl 1541. , "M. Luther." The two experts who studied the letter said it probably was the original rather than, a copy. The paper was old and hand-processed. The text of the letter, they said, was contained in a book. "Mar tin Luther's Brlefe in A u s w a h 1 Herausgeben von R ein h a rd Buschwald, Zwelter Band," pub lished in Leipzig in 1909. It is the second volume of a collection of Luther's letters. The experts be lieve the letter had also been pub- iisnea in tne eany laws. The letter was written when Luther was 58 and some 24 years after he posted his famous 95 tneses on tne door of a Witten berg church to protest what he felt were abuses of Papal Indulg ences dv tne catnouc cnurcn. A. Eroberg, the 77-year-old for ester who 'found the letter in a collection of okl papers, said he was sure it had been in his pos session vtt least since 1918. He was unable to explain how he got it. He said it might have been brought from Germany by his grandfather, Erik, an advtn- tuerer who , was fighting in Ger many in 1813-14. Children Use ; Outdated Coins Melrose, Mass. (IP) The Ice cream peddlers were running out of humor. So were the children. 1 The youngsters were trying to buy ice cream witn two-cent piec es and other outdated coins, some of them 300 years old. Police investigated. They dis covered the coins were part of a collection, apparently stolen, which had been dripped behind a tenement house. They believed the thief was a youth about 16 who had been scattering coins for the young sters for several days. No one seemed to know the youth. To add to the problem, no one had reported a coin collection stolen. Approximately 94 of the American population are living in Homes provided wim electricity. YES! WE'LL HAVE IT THURSDAY, AUGUST 2nd! y x COLOREfl ifcgj All usiyeet mSnP I II I ni mmr2m . in handy foil wrapped golden quarters Yellow Alls weet THE MARGARINE WITH Sports Parade (Continued from Page 10) signing Into the Yankee chain and the next season was able to nit four points better for Victor la in the Western International league. By the time he arrived at Beau mont in the Texas league last season he was at the spot where many managers might have tink ered with that stance. But he was fortunate enough to play for Rog ers Hornsby; a pretty fair country hitter in his day, and the Rajah left Gil strictly alone. It was a page right out of old Connie Mack's book from the 'days when he made his coaches leave Al Simmons' big hoof smack in the bucket. All Gil did was hit .336 and win the Texas league's most val uable player award. Receives Break That won him a trip to the Yankees' spring training camp at Phoenix but Gil was tagged for Kansas City. That's when fate stepped in and gave Gil a break -as well as the Yankees. Johnson, the man- who -led the Yanks as a rookie in 1943, was regarded as the regular third baseman. But in March he was injured arid McDougald took over at the hot spot, even though he was a second .baseman. Then Dr. Bobby Brown came pack. In the meantime: Gil had shown his stuff. , So it wasn't McDougald who left, but Johnson, as the Yanks sold him to St. LouU. And Gil, alternating with Brown at third and filling in at second for Ger ry Coleman, hag been too valu able with the stick to keep out of the lineup. . 1 Gil, a father of three at 23 who proved a good hitter In every league, has a ready explanation. His hobby is "steaks." . "And In the minors," he grins,' "you don't get 'm. Here with the Yankees they're a steady diet." . , , ONCE TOO OFTEN Detroit, July 26 (in Mrs. Marv L. Lane, 26. charged with drunk driving, told Traffic judge George T. Murphy that "my husband lets me nut by myself only once a month." "You haven't seen anything yet," Murphy replied and sen tenced her to 10 days in jail yesterday. NO RESPECT FOR POLICE Salem. Ore. UK-Prowlers climb ed over a steel fence and stole two storage batteries from the po lice department's radio transmit ter site. PRESTO-LOGS PICK-UP AT Brookings Wood Yard I PHONE 767 , Unusual Accident Results in Injury Prineville, July 26 Clifford Foster, 35, and employed on the Sugar creek ranch of Earl Laugh lin above Paulina 70 miles south east of here, recently suffered a severe lacerated aim in an acci dent. He and-Meiie Bushnell, who is operating the ranch, had turn ed on a motor driving a grinding wheel they were about to use in sharpening sickles for hay har vest. Revolving at high speed the wheel exploded, and particles, hurled by centrifugal force, strip ped the shirt from rosters leu arm and tore away flesh. Foster was rushed to the Pio neer Memorial hospital here, where it was repotred last night that he was recovering. Bulletin Classifieds Brmg Results. 0LYMP1A "It the Water" nli Icwta, Ca.CWo.WoilL.U.S.A. USE BULLETIN WANT ADS FOR BEST RESULTS! f Summer.' . 1 J TIMS . 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