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Show CRITICAL POINT IS APPROACHING Deputies In Entering the .Tunnels After Lopez Take Lives tn Their Hands Bingham, Dec. C It Is contended ; that tho crlucal point In tho search I for the murderous Rafael Lopez will bo reached when tho minors "and I deputlos cntor tho tunnels of tho Utah-Apex mine this ovenlng. It mny J be necessary to search evory foot of tho miles of underground passages and stopes before-It is known doflnlto J ly wh6thcr tho bandit is In tho mlno i or whether a week's lgll has boon S wasted . i It Is freoly predicted horo Uiat, It Lopez has escaped nsphlxlatlon, ho JO OJH 01fl IBID pUU mail AVOU.B JJJW J a deputy or bo will pay for tho taking i of tho Mexican. Somo believe that I.opoz succeeded In finding a general-5 general-5 ly unknown wny out of tho mlno; oth 5 crs bellovo that ho found a safo ro-i ro-i fuco from tho gases Bomowhero In tho mlno and a minority bellovo that ho will bo found dead. Tho possibility that a search will not bo necessary, but that tho body of tho bandit will bo found Just with In ono of tho bulkheads tfhero ho breathed his last In a desporato attempt at-tempt to chin tho outer air, has"caus ed a thrill of oxcltemont nnd tho crowds of spectators and' tho morbidly morbid-ly curious Is Increasing hourly. Mutterlngs Heard It has also been noticed that a largo number of tho spectators aro Inclined to glowor nt tho deputies and regard them as Interfering In their natural task of avenging tho deaths ot tho ninghuin doputles. Muttorlngs havo been heard in Bingham proper and In evory camp of tho canyon to tho effect ef-fect that tho olhcers will novor bo able to got Lopez to tho Jail nllvo. Mob vlolenco Is threatened and tho oillcers havo been warned. Large numbers of Servians, fellow-countrymen fellow-countrymen of Torn Mandorlch who was shot last Saturday by Lopez In Uio Andy tunnol, havo gathorod from tlmo to tlmo and freely prodtctod what would bocomo of Lopoz It tho oillcers succeeded in taking hlmaTTvo Many havo threatened to rlddlo the body with bullets It tho Moxlcan Is found doad. Sheriff Smith Is determined deter-mined that mob rule shall not provall In nny ovont nnd has taken steps to prevent Indignities helng offered tho oillcors, tho prisoner or tho prisoner's prison-er's body. |