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Show PIONEER OF MONTANA DIES IN MISSOULA Missoula, Mont., March 17. Alfred Cave, ono of the best known of Montana's Mon-tana's early settlers, died here today. He was bora In southern Iowa In 182a aud spent the early years of his lite in Iowa and Missouri. In the latter state he ilved in the town of Florida, Flori-da, near Hannibal, and grew up with Mark Twain. In the early fifties the Cave family crossed the plains to California, where a few years later the elder Cave was murdered. The family travelled overland over-land to Oregon and Washington in the early sixties, and in 1865 Alfred Cave came to Montana and established a pack train business between Fort Benton Ben-ton and Walla Walla. In the Nez Perce Indian outbreak of 1877, Mr. Cave w ith his outfit rendered valuable aid to the United States troops. I |