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SPOKANE , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of Spokane county, See also:Washington, U.S.A., on both See also:banks of the Spokane See also:river, near the eastern boundary of the See also:state, and about 242 M. E. of See also:Seattle. Pop.-(189o), 19,922; (1900), 36,848, of whom 7833 were See also:foreign-
See also:born, including 1683 See also:English Canadians, 1326 Germans, and
1168 Swedes; (r910 See also:census 104,402. Spokane is served
by the See also:Great See also:Northern, the See also:Oregon Railway & See also:Navigation Co. (See also:Union Pacific See also:system), the Northern Pacific, the See also:Idaho & Washington Northern, the Spokane, See also:Portland & Seattle, and the Spokane & See also:International See also:railways, and by the Spokane & Inland See also:Empire (electric) See also:line connecting with the Coeur d'Alene See also:mining region, Idaho, and with See also:Colfax, Washington and See also:Moscow, Idaho. Among the See also:principal buildings of the city are the Federal See also:building, the county See also:court-See also:house, the city-See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall, the See also:post See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, the See also:Paulsen building, the See also:Columbia and Auditorium theatres, the Spokane See also:club, the masonic See also:temple, the Spokesman-See also:Review building, and a large See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church. Spokane is the see of a See also:Protestant Episcopal See also:bishop. The city has a See also:Carnegie library, and ten public parks aggregating 320 acres; the more important are See also:Liberty See also:Park (25 acres), Manito Park (85 acres), and Corbin Park (13 acres). Fort See also:George See also:Wright (established in 1895) is 3 M. See also:west of Spokane on a See also:tract of 1022 acres given to the See also:United States See also:Government by the city, for that purpose, in 1894-1895. Spokane is the seat of See also:Gonzaga See also:College (Roman Catholic) for boys, founded in 1887 and incorporated in 1904; of Spokane College (1907; Lutheran); of Brunot Hall (Protestant Episcopal), for girls; the See also:Academy of the See also:Holy Names (Roman Catholic), for girls; and of other See also:schools and See also:academies. Among the city's charitable institutions are a See also:home for the friendless (189o), the St See also:Joseph orphanage (18go), St See also:Luke's (190o) and the See also:Marie See also:- BEARD (A.S. beard, O. H. and Mod. Ger. Bart, Dan. beard, Icel. bar, rim, edge, beak of a ship, &c., O. Slay. barda, Russ. barodd. Cf. Welsh barf, Lat.. barba, though, according to the New English Dictionary, the connexion is for phonetic reasons doubtful)
- BEARD, WILLIAM HOLBROOK (1825-1900)
Beard See also:Deaconess (1896) hospitals, each having a training school for nurses, a See also:Florence See also:Crittenden home, and a House of the See also:Good Shepherd. The Spokane river is a rapidly flowing stream with two falls (the upper of 6o and the See also:lower of 70 ft.), within the city limits, providing an estimated See also:energy of about 35,000 See also:horse-See also:power at See also:low See also:water. Of this energy, in 1908, about 17,000 horse-power was being utilized, chiefly for generating See also:electricity (the See also:motive power most used in the city's See also:industries), as well as for See also:lighting and transit purposes, while about 9000 horse-power in See also:electrical power was transmitted to the Coeur d'Alene mines. At Post Falls, Idaho, 22 M. See also:east of Spokane, about 12,000 horse-power is See also:developed, and at Nine Mile See also:Bridge near Spokane, about 20,000horse-power. Spokane's manufactu See also:ring interests have developed with remarkable rapidity.
In two there were 84 factories capitalized at $2,211,304,
and their product was valued at $3,756,119. In 1905
there were 188 factories capitalized at $5,407,313 (144'5%
increase), and the value of their products was $8,830,852 (135.1%
increase). The city's principal manufactures in; 1905 were: See also:lumber and planing See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
mill products ($2,040,059); See also:flour and grist-mill products ($1,089,396); See also:malt liquors ($679,274); foundry and See also:machine-See also:shop products ($479,954); and lumber and See also:timber products ($478,019). Spokane is an important jobbing centre, is a natural See also:supply point for the See also:gold, See also:silver and See also:lead mining regions of northern and central Idaho, eastern Washington, and Oregon, and is a distributing point for the See also:rich agricultural districts in this region.
The first permanent See also:settlement on the site of Spokane was made in 1874 by See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James N. See also:Glover, who bought from two trappers a tract of See also:land here. The settlement was named Spokane Falls, in memory of the See also:Spokan See also:Indians, a tribe of
See also:Salishan stock, which formerly occupied the Spokane Valley; the word Spokan is said to mean " See also:children of the See also:sun." Spokane was incorporated as a See also:town in 1881 and in the same See also:year received its first city See also:charter (amended in 1891). The city became the county-seat in 1882. The See also:present name was adopted in 189o. The city was reached by the Northern Pacific See also:rail-way in 1883, by the Union Pacific in 1889, and by the Great Northern in 1892. On the 4-6th of See also:August 1889, See also:thirty squares of the city (nearly all of its business See also:section) were destroyed by See also:fire, with a loss estimated at $5,000,000. Rebuilding was at once begun, and in about two years the city had been almost entirely reconstructed and greatly improved. In 1910 Spokane adopted a See also:commission See also:form of government.
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