Expulsion of Two Chinese Laborers
Two Chinese men fleeing Victoria are apprehended near the Quiniault reservation and prepared for deportation.
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Counting on the expiration of the Scott law, a party of eighteen Chinamen left Victoria in a small boat on the 30th of April, bound for Astoria. An accident occurring to the boat off the coast, two of the men became frightened and paid a fisherman $100 to land them at the mouth of the Queets river. Their landing was reported by the Indian agent at the Quiniault reservation, and the two men were trapped and brought to Aberdeen. They were sent to Tacoma on Tuesday in the charge of United States Deputy Marshal Lovell, where they will be furnished with free transportation back to the old country.
“the two Mongolian peasants were trapped and brought to Aberdeen.”
This event reflects the brutal era of the Chinese Exclusion Acts, where federal law and local vigilantism combined to hunt down and deport laborers. It is a stark reminder of the xenophobic policies that shaped the Pacific Northwest's demographics and labor history.
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