James N. Glover
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- Aug 25, 1883The Six-Story Mill Built on a Rock in the Spokane RiverIn 1883, S. G. Havermale and B. F. Davis began raising a flour mill and elevator on Little Island, betting that water power and wheat would make Spokane Falls a grain capital.Spokane, WA
- Sep 22, 1883The Widow, the Mayor, and the Killing of William Three MountainsAfter a Spokane chief was killed, his widow walked into Mayor Glover’s office to settle a five-year-old debt—a story the paper framed with the era’s racism.Spokane, WA
- Sep 22, 1883Drawing the Lines of a New CityA called council meeting in September 1883 redrew Spokane Falls’s boundaries, split it into four wards, and argued over who would elect the city’s officers.Spokane, WA
- Oct 6, 1883The Stolen Petition That Could Have Split Spokane CountyIn 1883, a push to carve a new county out of Spokane turned ugly when a 350-name petition vanished from a Howard Street law office.Spokane, WA
- Jan 12, 1884Spokane Wakes Up and Decides to Chase the MinesA packed hall of businessmen forms a committee of fifteen to build a Board of Trade and a transportation company — because the future of Spokane Falls is a road to the Coeur d'Alene diggings.Spokane, WA
- Mar 29, 1884Spokane Falls Picks Its Men: A Packed Convention Names Glover and HydeIn a crowded hall on a spring evening, the town's leading citizens nominated a full slate for the coming election — and the paper was happy to tell you exactly why each man deserved your vote.Spokane, WA
- Apr 12, 1884A New Mayor Inherits a Solvent City — and a River Full of FilthSpokane Falls' incoming council takes the oath, draws lots for term lengths, and confronts the sewage being dumped above the falls.Howard Street, Spokane, WA
- Apr 7, 1895The Rise and Lonely Fall of Spokane's Richest ManBanker Anthony M. Cannon, who helped build Spokane from a cabin by the falls, dies broke and bereaved in a New York hotel — days after a secret second marriage made him tabloid prey.Spokane, WA