Show LOPEZ ENTOMB ED IN BINGHAM MINE MURDEROUS MEXICAN THOUGHT TO BE VICTIM OF POISONOUS OASES GASES POURING IN MINE desperado who has kit killed ed six men and closed down a mining property supposed to have met death like rat in a trap salt bait lake city felix lopez the mexican murderer who has had killed five men since he be shot a countryman at Bingham t during a quarrel over a woman is in all probability dead after killing three of the tour four at fibers who set out to capture him after he had killed another mexican at langham lungham ning LUng ham fahs the murderer doubled back on his racks and took refuge in the apex mine hundreds of men have guarded the different entrances to the mine and every endeavor has been made to capture lopez who has proven to he be one of the most desperate men in the history of the west and a dead shot two men have been shot down and killed by lopez since he tools took refuge in the mine and the sheriff of salt lake county finally decided that the only way to prevent loss of life and capture the desperate mexican was to smoke him out of his hiding place with this idea in view fires have been started at different entrances in the inne rine and poisonous fumes are supposed to have penetrated every inch of the vast underground workings all entrances having been sealed thus the hiding place ol of lopez has been made his tomb it Is believed when the sheriff has been convinced that the hunted desperado is dead the mine will be unsealed and a posse will look for the body this plan of suffocating lopez waa wai put into execution only after it became apparent that he would never 6 be taken alive and that in all probability many more lives would belac be sac in an effort to capture him as aa he had every advantage ol of the posse in that they could not approach hla his hiding place without being exposed to the deadly fire from his rifle besides he had plenty of ammunition and some food there thera are persistent rumors that mike Cr anovich the austrian chols who is a fugitive on a charge 0 of wife beatr beat ing has been to in tho the utah apex mine also during the time lopez hamtak had taki en refuge there but had escaped prior to placing the bulkheads inthe in tha tunnels of the mine in preparation for smothering the mexican it was reported frequently during tuesday that friends of Cr aranovich anovich had smuggled him out of the mine on saturday or sunday and had bad him diddea in a cabin there are those who insist that the man who has been in the mine ever since the posse his has been attempting to dislodge him Is crano vich and not lopez they contend that escaped atter after shooting the three officers and never came back to bingham dingham it Is only a question of time now however before the truth will be known nothing tan can live in the mine and when the mine Is again opened a search will be made for the body of the desperado who has taken six lives and caused the state a monetary loss of at least the latest report from the bandit was that which came tuesday night from the phoenix tunnel no 2 the tha foot level wilds stationed there reported that they had heard lopez working his bis way out at the inner bulkhead there are two bulkheads in this tunnel the innermost one being about feet from the portal and the outer oae one about fifty feet in according to the tha guards le lc pez was heard moving umbers at the inner bulkheads |