The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-18
6RB|N'S CASE
lHDRR|BLE ONE
i. ipguish and Uncertainty of
ID Disappearance, With
No Trace.
n. BODY WAS FOUND
h Ry TRACKS OF ANIMALS
Roy Scout Movement in Its
Relation to Cases of
Peril.
sY c. E. ARNEY.

.,l,l TO The Tribune.
-o,sr Idaho, Dec. 1.-THE body oil
|. Z co,bIu xss brought here today for
|sl
c..str was a real estate man and
- ~ Boise. He had lived here for
4 yx years and made many friends
4. u,sks ago he and four or fivc
4. ,r,ends went to the Sig Springs
In for an elk hunt. During the first
s,ys OF the sport all his associates
/, thsIr elk" and he had failed.
"a started out with the avowcd deter
rs,,sp Of getting his game before he
ned 10 camp. From then until last
<srsiay. month after his disappear
q nothing was seen or heard OF him.
ID thsI time two hunters for his re-
LIZ, yere successful. They found the
"a Of their long search under the
AIDING branches of a large spruce
., Here he had prepared for his last
q Here he premeditatedly gave up
hst chase. Here he made a pillow
4 sh gloves. removed his signet ring.
- il In mis- pocket. and closed his
"a Tor The last time to the world, lost
4 trackless forest, and consigned his
-flly temple TO the ravages Of the wild
ia Of the wild forest. The tracks
4 iea native animals Of this forest,
.ahs from their dens TO the unfor-
Sc victim unable TO cope with the
-rr,hes Of that tlmbeyed land. led his
lrhsrs to his wnereab bouts and solved
mystery which had been shocking the
ssk Of all OF Idaho for a month.
The Feeling of Horror.
|strng men had shaken their heads
b remorse at the terrible thought of
4 nan being lost Women had shed
|r,a!hetc tears for the Mrs. Corbin
y lie aged parents, who were suf-
ks5 The torlures OF hades because OF
y Intense feeling Of uncertainty, while
'sssH were telling their horriiled chill
re Of the tragedy as an object lesson
Eseve them from wandering away
Il home.
~ experience Of this dead man MAY
est az a lesson TO others. II should
H.
|h experienced surveyor, who has spent
pc N bis profession in the mountains
z. west. said 10 me the other dav
~ u was his constant orders. and had
Hf bsen with his men In the forest.
Fr 70 allow any man in his crew to
p'o tne forest alone. If one man
rT 30 from the scenes Of the survey
amp. his orders were always that
Ecsr member OF the company must
.lss'iany him. and that they must all
a; remain within speaking distance
4 not only as precaution TO getting
out TO guard against disability and
-Ssnent suffering or death from fall
; trees. i"i'
~ ad miner said to me. in speaking
'es tragedy. that he never went into
o'st 10 mine or to hunt without
- 's.t en1 several candles. A fire can
Sn'ea from candle where. in wet
.,;Esr, match Will fail Had Corhin
anoes he might have burned nm
!. 80 Of the forest about him 10 ottract
In WIZ were IN search |
q I;n on mountaineer said to ire that
'nOse N search Of Corbln gone io |
vac where he was last seen AMI
h I'm 70 q horse the horse woiiid |
30 The track Of the horse rid.
IN. s,e numerous theories a(lost OF !
snMeuiate GAUGE Of the death Of This |
.lna's flciira of the dense forest |
~ ~ tna, he had hearr trouble. Per |
yss UNn details will always he mai
g. .Itrula;'nn among those who viii