Gen. Miles
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- Aug 4, 1883When General Sherman Told Spokane Falls It Would Be a Great CityThe Civil War hero arrived with Generals Miles and Tidball, drew a packed house at Canaan's Hall, and told the young town its water power could make it another Minneapolis.Spokane, WA
- Mar 14, 1895The Plan to Ring Puget Sound With Forts—and Put Big Guns on Magnolia BluffA federal fortification scheme would turn Magnolia Bluff, Admiralty Inlet and Marrowstone Point into a defensive ring around the new Port Orchard navy yard—if Congress paid for it.Magnolia Bluff, Seattle, WA
- Mar 20, 1895Eugene Debs Brings the Railroad War to Seattle—and Dares His Enemy to DebateAt a packed Armory, the American Railway Union leader accuses a railroad manager of bribery and corruption, challenging him to a public forum and a $1,000 charitable wager.Seattle Armory, Seattle, WA