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Show HE EXPECTS TO CATCH LOPEZ Sheriff is Now Paying a Waiting Wait-ing Game at Bingham Bing-ham Mine. Bingham Utah. Dec. 15. Excepting for the presence of the guards at the I'tah-Apex mine, one would not suspect sus-pect that a man hunt was In progress here. True, the oft-repeated question .'on the streets is. "What is new about Lopes?" and Just as often the answer is, "Nothing." All of which about describes tho situation. Sheriff Smith Is of the opinion that I the Mexican is in the shut-off portion of the workings and is more than ov or determined that no move shah be made to remove the bulkheads until un-til It becomes reasonably certain that the man Is not Inside. There have been no signs of the man for two days not since the guards reported hearing noises at the bulkheads. The theory that smoke was seen Issuing from the tunnels and that the bandit may have built a fire was discredited with the discovery that It was only vapor such as comes from the tun nels with atmospheric changes. Somo excitement was caused this morning when a telegraph operator reported that he had 'spoken ' with another operator in Salt Lake, who In turn had been In communication with Mack, Colo., and that 'Lopez' had been arrested there In a half crazed condition by the depot agpnt The man was described as resem bling the published descriptions ol the much wanted bandit and was said to have In bis pockets letters addressed to Ixipf-z He also had with him two six-shooters and a rifle A telegram direct from Mack, however, how-ever, proved the original rumor to have been erroneous. The man ar rested was half-crazed, was dresseo. somewhat like Lopez, the bandit, is supposed to be, and did have the suns and papers in his pockets addressed ad-dressed to "Lopez." But the man ir-named ir-named V. C. Lopez, and is a sheep herder employed about twenty mile from Mack. Lope-z the sheepherder It developed, devel-oped, had walked from the ranch oi E. D. Blodgett and arrived at the Mack-depot Mack-depot about 2 o'clock this morning and took possession. When he wa& trapped he flourished his gun. tie was overpowered and tied with ropes until Sheriff Schrader of Mesa coun ty arrived and took him to Grand Junction. It was rumored that he might have done some shooting before leaving bis home ranch, but nothing definite was learned here today. rn |