Salt Lake Herald | 1909-01-17 | Page 1 | Found Dead in Cabin

FOUND DEAD IN CABIN First Man to Enter Boise Basin Beno Solano Passes Away Boise Ida Jan 16 A special from Idaho City to the Statesman says Beno I aged SO 80 was found dead in his hIg I II I cabin six miles northeast of ot this place today The young man making the discovery rushed through to town to report He said sald a shotgun lay layon layon layon on the floor beside the body but b t he did not hot stop to investigate the cause of death was waz probably the first white man to enter the famous Boise Bohe Basin country He went there in 1860 to trap three years before the gold dis discovery discovery Is covery that electrified the country In later years he has lived In n hU bLO nI lonely Jonely cabin robIn snowed In during the winter wIntertime time because his stiffened limbs prohibited the use by him of snowshoes