Spokane Wins the Land Office

For months there has been an undercurrent at work looking to the removal of the United States land office to some point on the North Pacific road. For a long time it was a question of doubt whether the office would eventually go to Sprague, Cheney, or Spokane Falls, as every one of these towns made every exertion to secure the greatly desired office. It gives us great pleasure to announce that Spokane Falls has been determined upon by the authorities at Washington as the proper point for that important office. Our leading citizens worked nobly to secure the office, and their efforts were ably seconded by parties outside who deserve our everlasting thanks. The Land Office is more important than one would imagine from a fleeting glance; every man who takes up land in this part of the Northwest will be compelled to come to the city. This will be no hardship to the individual, however, as Spokane is as centrally located as any town to which the office might have been taken. It is a glorious victory over which our people have reason to rejoice. The most prodigious efforts were made in several quarters to stave the Land Office from Spokane Falls. Rivals saw our star of brilliant ascendancy arising above all competitors and twinkling a lustre that nothing short of the day of reckoning could shake.