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Show j ARMED "MEN ARE IN MINNIE MINE Guards Go Into the Depths to Search For Lopez, the Bandit Bingham. Nov. 28 . The hunt for Raphael Lopez, the outlaw, lias shifted from the tops of the mountains to a gigantic man hunt underneath one of the tallpst ol the Oquirrh mountains I near Bingham The chasp for the fugitive, which commenced a weelt ago last night, ran now be llkpnerl to a great chess game The sixty or more miles of tunnels and stopes In the Apex mine is tho cheBS board The object of the pursuers is to an tidpate and block the next movo of (hp Mexican bandit, who 16 In de Derate straits and undoubtedly making hi last stand. Two now elements havp entered into in-to the chase, one ravorable'to the hunters and one to the hunted Hun gor and Intense pain must necessarily necessari-ly be making each hour a greater tor ture than the previous one to the bandit Perhaps atarvatlon may finally fi-nally cause his surrender. The clement cle-ment favoring the murderer is that he is perfectly familiar with the underground un-derground works in which he now is and In which he has even better opportunities op-portunities to ambush and kill moro men than he had in the Lake moun tains. Shortly after daybreak, this morning, morn-ing, armed deputies had taken their positions at the exits from the three mines. Although there are sixteen or seventeen tunnels which would af ford exits, some of them are so clos? together as to leave only eleVeh polntB v her? guards must be stationed to prevent a possible escape by Lopez. All day the guards stood griralv watching the holes from which the desperate Mexican, probably half craz ed by pain from his swollen feet and possible pneumonia from the severe (old which he had when he visited the Italian's cabin Wednesday night, might try lo escape. Each guard carried a powerful rifle, loaded and cocked. To shoot to kill was the determination of each one. although there was a feeling among some of the deputies that if Lopez put his head - out hp would be given an opportu nitj to surrender. Most of the men expressed a wish that they could hear the story of the bandit's "thrilling flight before he died But they all agreed that no chancel would be taken and that if he did not surrender instantly he would be killed. The only other new feature of Importance Im-portance today wae the attempt to smoke Lopez out of the Minnie min? Bight hales of hay and two barrels of crude oil were placed in the mouth of the main Minnie tunnel in a hort nrae the smudge came belching from tho mouths of the various open ings into the outer air The deputies took last looks at their rifles and then pointed them ready for business The organization of the posse andj guards yesterday was the best that uftb been effected since the hunt start I ed. Promptly at 5 o'clock tonight a relief re-lief guard was out to take Hip places ol i he men who had been on Cite watch all day. The relief men will j work until nbout 6 o'clock tomorrow morning u hen the day men. refreshened refresh-ened bj a full nights sleep, will re turn io dntj TonUbt l the first 1 nigh: that some of the deputies has had nn opportunity for 8 full night s ' resi slnre the hunt began That LnpPZ B the Apex mine la 1 certain It wa proved beyond dis- ! ute todav when he was actuail) seen I bv one man and heard by another. j Warrick Davie, the shift boss in charge of about 225 minora who are working in the pex propern was the man who saw Lopez Davie saw him about 1 o clock this afternoon, i according to his statement made to BOmo of the guards as soon hs lie could reach the outaide of the mine I stumbled onto him In the dark,'" said Davie ' i was In the Louisa stope, between tho 300 and 400-foot levels I was almost on top of him before I recognized him in the dim i glare from my light. His face nas a1 terrible sight He looked like a wild , man. 1 was unarmed, and lie ha his rifle For that reason I fled as rapidly rap-idly as possible away from him and came out to notify the armed men I will never forget that wild beast look in his face. I am positive that it was Lopez, because 1 knew him well He worked In this mine" It was Ben Benson who heard tho . Mexican's oice. He was working 1 it- the 700-foot level, toward the bot-tom bot-tom of the mine At about 11 o'clock this morning he heard a oice call 'Hello" to him. It came down through the Ixjuisa stope. which runs diagonally up through the honeycombed honey-combed hill. Benson, also a miner, was unarmed and he. too. fled In righteous fear from the dead-shot bandit As soon as he could get out, he warned the posses outside From theae reports and the traces Ol the man found in the mine by the j pursuers, it is practically certain that the Mexican got down low In the mine, toward the bottom and later fled upward With the hope of keeping keep-ing his flight upward, men are being stationed ai every stope leading from! level to level ns the pursuers climb upward Under such conditions, according ac-cording to thoNe who know the party. It will perhaps take hundreds of j guards and possibly several days to j run the Mexican out of the property ! into the range of guards and the ex ist6 or into a corner where an underground! under-ground! fight would ensue The property of the Apex Mining company consists of three mines on a mountain north of Carr Fork and I about halfway between the mouth of the fork and tho Highland Boy mine The mines are known as the Minnie, the Utah pe and the Phoenix. Lopez Lo-pez entered the mine through tunnel No. 2 in the Minnie mine near the cabin of Mike Stefano When last located yesterday afternoon he was on what is known as the 400-foot lev-'I lev-'I ol the Apex mine, traveling upward. up-ward. Upon hearing the report from Davie Da-vie this afternoon of the location of the Mexican. R posse immediately wi'iit up into the mine in an electric motor car used to haul ore trains from the bigger tunnels. Those who went in the first party were Dr. A L inglesb Dr F E Straup. Jack Dpan, J. L Forbes. Guy De Ford, J Douglas Hulwsev. Julius Sorenson, Dr. David Ray, .1 T Allison J II Boyle. Parker Green. Otto Koppele, I" Parkinson, G. W. Rowland and J W K el ley First rumors that came down from the scene of action, about a mile into the tunnel, were that the posse had surrounded the Mexican in a pocket. This proved false later when some of the daring hunters returned to the mouth of the Apex main tunnel from which they entered. However. the nosse thoroughly searched the Louisa and the No. 6 stopes during their explorations in i he mine. Guards were stationed so that neither stope can be again used bj the Mexican There Is left to inspect in-spect thp west stope and the tunnels or levels. In this way it Is believed that the Mexican will not ha another an-other opportunity to get down to the lower levels. Each of the relief guards carried sandwiches when he went to work and during the night hot coffee and more sandwichps were sent up to the men from town. |