| Show rA 4 RELIC C OF OF OLDEN OLDE DAYS DAYS j I. 1 1 Bingham ham tho the great mining camp Isto Is Isto Isto to tho stranger a 0 sort of ot wonder of oC tho world It Is la built between two hills h In a narrow canyon A stranger recently remarked that a man living lI in Bingham did not know whether he lived In tho mountain or under It Another tourist expressed the tho opinion opinion ion on that the tones folks In BIngham could stand In their doorways and shako hands across the street Toda Today the tho town Is little more than a frontier mining mining- camp yet ot is as cosmopolitan cosmopolitan cos cos- as New ew York or San Fran Fran- cisco There are English Irish Danes Swedes Greeks Hungarians Italians and almost ever every other nationality under under under un un- der the sun BUn represented In the population population population tion of the great reat copper camp And the town Is still sun frontier to a certain extent To the tho stranger who comes cones to BIngham and plays s 's square the time old hospitality of ot the thc west Is la open The who brows blows man Into the camp Is not asked any embarrassing que questions about his past by his fellow fellow tellow fel tel low worl workers rs Of Ot eo course there Is no freedom from arrest ther there and a a. wanted man Is sure sooner or later to be picked up tip b by the police But hounding by br p police H e is not and ne cr never Las been popular with miners an and theman theman the theman man whoso whose toot foot slipped once In some minor way Is pretty ure aura to Set get a chance chanco to turn over o a a. new leaf leat All In all nU however Bingham is no now nowa a quiet working hard law abiding I But Bui l- l one does docs not have ha to find a pioneer to hear r tales of oC the thc days das when nl LIngham ham was as wide wille open asan as an any Klondike camp In Its balmy palmy days Tho roulette wheels the faro Caro names arnes the tho Klondike e games were run In tho the middle of ot the street A men man could Lac back his opinion as to the affinity o of ofa ofa f a n certain color or number for tor the little little lit Ut- tle tic Ivory Ivery ball baIl to an any amount hlll his desired there Thera was no limit to the amount a 0 I miner could place on the tipper upper left left- hand corner coiner of at the tho queen and und one whose d desire for tor excitement consisted in tr trying ln to tr fill till a ell flush could I always find some natured good citizen n who ho would bet a n. we weeks week's ks k's wage tha thai tha It could not be done dine I And Ancl now and then gentlemen who indulged in games of ot chance as to the correct number of oC cards curds I which should bo ho con contained rained in an any respectable re- re d dock ck there were rc funerals after the quarrel But nut that I is all raft past and gone There are no more cutting cuLlin affrays s 's no more shootings shootings-of oC li-oC of the old free for all all' varlet va va- a aI I 4 An occasional murder not murder not more than Is the tho share of or an any average a mining I camp In the country countr country and and and a frequent I fI i Is s all ail that 1 ls Is s lef Jel In InI I Bingham ham of oC the ol old wild and woolly The goddess of chance Is still sUU a resident rest resi lent dent but she is hs In retirement retire retire- m ment and nt and no lie longer has her presence in tho the town tOWI blazoned In n letters of ot lI light ht Hut But Bingham as a typical c camp mp of the old day daR is dead It died in ablaze a tl aMaze Maze blaze of oC glory A Mexican named Lopez Lopez Lo Lo- pez made the tt town wn famous from coast coastin 70 to coast and avid border to border His career made mado a sort ort ortt of t e to thelong thelon the tho lon long and virile liter story 0 of the frontier days when days when et e every en Fry n man mana was a a law Jaw unto himself when himself when n the rustlers mid lord bad men defied tho the majesty of ot the law nd i-nd nd smiled d while thc they did tho the defying Like man many of the real bad men nen Lopez Lopez Lo Lo- pez got awa away with It Lopez started his mad car career cr b by quarreling with a Mexican From tho the j I bulletins that afterward trickled from the camp the Mexican called Lopez I certain rile names which Lopez hen heated heated- ted ted- j T Th ly h resented Later the Mexican breathed threats of t violence I Miners are thou thoughtless folk and folk and the they are arc not always alwa's good Judges judg-es of oC tempera tempera- ment Lopez was a quiet Inoffensive sort Kort or of or chap but ho 10 possessed a a. lain tain quick and deadly dexterity with a nun gun He was kno known n to have hare a strong to fist But the miners desiring to b be t entertained by a physical combat bet between e n a couple of ot human beings carried tho the news of or the threats threat to Lopez In tr transit the stories became embellished and when J Lopez heard th the the- remarks It was charged the Mexican hurt had made he became became became be be- came filled with burning indignation After due consideration he decided that naught ht sav save the scalp of or that Mexican would satisfy his wounded honor so he forth forthwith went out und and killed the Mexican Then the trouble rouble began besan In he lre ordinary or ordInary or- or course of or human events tho the taking taking- ort oft of oC a 0 Mexican 1 would cause no great consternation in n a western mining mining- camp The miners figure that as a a. g general thing It Is a a. case of or good rl riddance But there was a cold I about Lopez's method of ot procedure that was annoying to the miners And AntI there therewa wa was Indignation galore Th There re was even cen talk of organizing a a. nc committee l end nd executing summary justice en cn Mr Ir Lop Lopez z but that gentleman having havin eom completed his job jobIn jobIn jobIn In a a. neat and workmanlike manner hastily shook the dust of oC that Jj Jar bar section of or the thc canyon from rem nis l' l feet teet 1 t r Then tho the manhunt b began gan Bingham found itself In the headlines on tho tho front page pale of ever every newspaper in tho the nation 4 Lopez took refuge refuge- In in the hills an and i. i later In the workings s of oC one of or the f i mines The officers of ot the law laid t r siege to his lair with shot and dyna- dyna l' l mite A number of ot them were killed and man many wounded L Lopez was husbanding husbanding hus- hus husi i banding his ammunition nn and never t. t fired any n warning warning- shots 3 After r a long and tiresome hunt th the tho t 4 officers decided that Lopez had d departed df- df parted for tor other climes An exhaustive i r rs ff s search of ot the diggings proved their surmise correct Lopez escaped But Buthis his name lives In ham and md he gave gava the thc town town town-or or camp camp camp-a a wide ration advertising advertising ad ad- that money couldn't bu buy i iSo So now all is Js comparatively oh quiet In J 1 Bingham ham There Thero are a n. few tew danco halls half i- i and amusements of oC a 3 moro more or less Sunday Sunda s school hool character but generally jj speaking speaking- BIngham Is 13 a 3 quiet orderly progressive camp nestling In the shadow o of the great levels Ic of ot the Utah j Copper |
