Jim Kershner’s this day in history

From our archives, 100 years ago

Mayor W.J. Hindley said his goodbyes to Spokane during an emotional farewell banquet in the Davenport Hotel’s Elizabethan Room.

“A crisis comes in the lives of most of us when the fates beckon us and we must go,” Hindley told a crowd of well-wishers. He was beckoned by a Winnipeg church, which hired him as pastor.

“I have lived in Spokane about 12 years and have never been a knocker or a destructive critic, even when matters did not meet with my approval,” he said. “I have believed in Spokane from the beginning, caught its spirit and have always predicted for it a magnificent future.”

He said he always wanted to return to the ministry and his mayoral experience would help him in the pulpit. 

“It is one thing to stand in the pulpit and idealize the modern city, but it is quite another thing to go to the city hall and realize what the actual experience means,” he said.

From the graveyard beat: Development began on a new cemetery not far from Fort George Wright. It was to be called the Riverside Park Cemetery and was intended to be “one of the finest in the West.”

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(From the Associated Press)

2009: A gunman shot and killed four Lakewood, Washington, police officers at a coffee shop.