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| Year | Stories |
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| 1892 | 2 |
| 1894 | 1 |
3 stories matching highbind
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:high, hind, highbarg, highbrow, highland, hight
- A Threat in Chinatown: The Laundryman, the Secret Society, and the Police Escort
After a robbery in Wa Chong’s building, a Chinese agent fears assassination by a band of seventeen ‘highbinders’ and asks Captain Brennan for safe conduct home.
- The Chinese Alms Association Defends Its Mission
Facing accusations of operating a 'Highbinder court,' members of Seattle's Chinese community wrote to the Post-Intelligencer to assert their role as an independent organization dedicated to arbitration and charity.
- The Shadow Trial of Ah Jim
A secret trial in a Seattle basement nearly triggers a riot, revealing the intense, violent rivalries between competing Chinese merchant factions vying for control over labor and transit.