County Gwinnett Sheriff
In 1879, J. N. Glover, often referred to as Spokane’s founding father, traveled to Olympia and took the legislature out to dinner at Doane’s Oyster’s House for food, drinks and cigars to convince them to authorize the creation of a second county in eastern Washington, separating Steven’s county into two counties. The legislature approved the creation of Spokane County consisting of present day Spokane, Lincoln and Douglas counties. Spokane Falls was named as the temporary county seat and county officials were appointed until elections could be held to elect permanent officials and establish the permanent location of the county seat. An attorney, James Nosley, was appointed Auditor until the election. Most of the citizens of Spokane Falls wanted the county seat located there to increase land values while Northern Pacific Railroad and most of the rural residents wanted the county seat at Cheney, Washington.
Election for the County Seat
An election was held in November, 1880. The results were disputed from the beginning. Auditor Nosley and the Justice of the Peace and one other county official constituted the canvassing board authorized to certify the election. Nosley was also running for Auditor as was W. H. Bishop. Nosley threw out some of the ballots which he felt did not have a proper oath attached to them which resulted in his own election over Bishop as well as the election of Spokane Falls as the County seat by 7 votes.
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