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Show CORONER HOLDS INQUEST OVER PIONEER TRAPPER Boiso, Idaho, Jan. is. Coroner's Inquest, held at the isolated and snow-covered snow-covered cabin of Beno Salvo, tho SO-, year-old trapper and miner found dead Saturday near Idaho City, and probably prob-ably the first white man to explore what Is now Idaho, revealed that the old man shot hlmseir with a rifle that he had carried In the mountains Tor many years. He had run a pencil through all the January dales on his v. all calendar up to and Including the ninth, which was probahly tho date .if ihe suicide. On" a slip 0f paper he had scribbled the words, "very sick" rnd below them "crazy." Ho left his belongings, including his gold dtiRt, to miner friends A sister and a brother reside somewhere in California. |