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Show LOPEZ ENTOMBED IN BINGHAM MINE MURDEROUS MEXICAN THOUGHT TO BE VICTIM OF POISONOU8 CASES POURING IN MINE. Desperado Who Has Killed Six Men and Closed Down a Mining Property Prop-erty Supposed to Have Met Death Like Rat In 1 Trap. Bait Lake Cl'y l-Vlii Lopet. the Mexican mnrHcrvn Who bus killed Ave m-n sitnc he shot a countryman at IJIiitltuin during a quarrel over a woman, Is in all probability dcud. After killing three of ttiu four officers of-ficers who set out to capture him after he had killed another Mexican at Ulngham, the murderer doubled bark on his trucks and took refuge In the Apex mine. Hundreds of men have guarded the different etiirames to the mine, and every endeavor has been mude to capture Lopez, who has proven to be one of the tnoHt desperate 1111 11 In the hlHtory of the west, and a deud shot. Two men have been shot down and killed by lxij.cz since he took refuse in the mine, and the sheriff of Salt Lake county finally decided thut the only way to prevent furthot loss of life and capture the desperate desper-ate Mexican, was to smoke hi 111 out of his hiding place. With this Idea In view, flres bave beeu started at different entrances In the mine, and poisonous fumes are supposed to have penetrated every inch of the vast underground workings, work-ings, all entrances having been sealed. Thus the hiding place of Lopez hat been made his tomb. It is believed. When the sheriff has been convinced con-vinced that the hunted desperado ti dead, the mine will be unsettled and a posse will look for the body. This plan of suffocating Lopez wa put into execution only after It ho came apparent that he would nevei be takeu alive, and that in nil proh ability many more lives would be sac rlflce'd in au effort to capture him, ai he had every advantage of the posse in that they could not approach bit hiding place without being exposed ! to the deadly ore from his rifle. Ho sides, he hud plenty of ammunltlor and some food. There are persistent rumors thai ' Mike Crauovlcb, the Austrian who ti a fugitive on a charge of wife beat lug, has been in tbe Ulah-Ape.x mini 1 lso, during the time Lopez bad tak en refuge there, but bad escapei prior to placing the bulkheads in tin tunnels of the mine, In preparatiof for smothering the Mexican. It wai 1 reported frequently during Tuesdaj that friends of C'ranovlch had smug gled blm out of the mine on Satur day or Kunday and had him hldde. in a cabin. There are those who insist tha the man who has been in the mlru ever since the posse has been at tempting to dislodge him, is (ratio vlch, and not Lopez. They content that Ipez escaped after sliootlu. the three officers, and never cami buck to Hingham. It Is only a question of time now however, before tbe truth will b known. Nothing can live in tht mine, and when the mine Is agal opened, a search will be made for IN body of the desperado who has takei six lives and caused the state a uion etary loss of at l-ast S.'iO.OOn. The latest reort from the band! was that which came Tuesday nlgM from the Phoenix tunnel No. 2. th 874 foot level. (Viards station, there reported that they had heart! Lopez working his way out at the In her bulkhead. There are two buU heads In this tunnel, the lunermos one being about 25M feet from tb portal and the outer one about ftftj feet In. According to the guards, Lc pz was heard moving timbers at tN ' Inner bulkheads. |