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William John Hill (March 3, 1840 – February 14, 1918) was a Canadian-American prospector, ferryman, newspaper publisher, and politician. He published the first daily newspaper in Idaho, the Idaho Daily Avalanche, in 1876. He was also the publisher of the Californian Salinas Index. Hill was a California state senator in 1880 and 1881, and in 1886, he was elected mayor of Salinas, California, serving three terms.