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Show uu BANKER AND FAITHFUL I HORSE DIE TOGETHER After Long Search, Remains of Bert Corbln Are Found at Old Camp. Boise, Idaho, Dec. 12. After a search lasting three weeks the body ot Bert R Corbin, the Boise banker, was found by two ranchmen at a spot where Corbln's porty camped when they first set out to hunt elk. The camp is onlv 12 miles from Big Springs, Idaho. Ecr since Corbin's failure to return aroused anxiety concerning con-cerning him a search has been going on. On the orders of Secretary Bab linger of the Interior department government gov-ernment foresters have been aiding In the search. A similar order Issued by Secretaryy Dickinson of the war department sent soldiers from Yellowstone Yellow-stone park to search for Corbln. The Vcaich has lasted about three weeks and wns on the' point of being, aban doned as hopeless Ralph Stevens and George Wilcox, who found the remains last Friday morning, were members of one of the posses that has been searching for Corbin. Thoy wore snow-shoes and had been hunting In places far from the trail They reached the road again at a spot whore the hunters had camped, and there lay the body, bad ly mutilated by wild animals The body ef the horse was close to that of bis master and had been partly devoured de-voured bv wild 'beasts. Everything seemed to indicate to the trained eves of the woodsmen that Corbin had reached that spot In a condition so exhausted that he did not remember that it had once been his camp, if he had realized this, they believe he would have made some attempt to get to Big Springs. It is supposed that InMh he and his horse were so weak and the snow so deep that Corbin utterly despaired of over being able to get out alive, so ho concluded to remain there un- |