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W. H. COWLES.

Proprietor Spokesman- Review.

machine which had done service for the weekly edition.

Mr. Dallam, in the summer of 1887, sold two-thirds of the property to H. T. Brown and H. W. Greenberg, and a little later disposed of his remaining interest to his associates and removed to Davenport, in Lincoln county.

In March, 1888, Col. Patrick Henry Winston and Willis Sweet came to Spokane from Lewiston, Idaho, bought into the paper and organized the Review Publishing Company. With them were associated James Monaghan and C. B. King. The paper was managed and edited jointly by Col. Winston and Mr. Sweet. A few months later Mr. Sweet disposed of his interest to Monaghan and King:, and returning to Idaho, entered politics and went to Congress. He was recently appointed Attorney General of Porto Rico.

On December 1, 1888, Winston, Monaghan and King transferred the paper to A. M. Cannon, of Spokane, and H. W. Scott and H. L. Pittock, of Portland, Oregon. The editorial control was entrusted to J. M. Adams, then register of the United States Land Office, who remained in charge until October, 1889, when he was succeeded by N. W. Durham, who has continued as managing editor until the present day. F. C. Goodin took the business management in 1888, and remains to the present.

Early in 1890, a company of bright, experienced newspaper men came here from Chicago and established the Morning Spokesman. Joseph French Johnston, now a member of the faculty of the University of New York, and J. Howard Watson, present private secretary of Governor McBride, were the directing spirits until the arrival, a few months later, of W. H. Cowles, from Chicago. Mr. Cowles soon increased his holdings, and later became sole owner of the new daily.

For three years severe competition existed between the Spokesman and the Review. After the two papers had suffered losses aggregating more than $200,000, Mr. Cowles, in 1893 and 1894, bought out the Review and consolidated the two papers.

Meanwhile the former owners of the Review had obtained a permanent home for the newspaper. The Presbyterian Church had found itself hemmed in by business property by the city's rapid development, and desiring a more quiet place of worship, sold the church building and corner lot at Riverside and Monroe. The

W. H. DURHAM, Editor Spokesman-Review.