Expulsion of Chinese Laborers
Two Chinese men arrested at a cannery are sent to McNeil Island before deportation.
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U. S. Deputy Marshal Don Lovell, of Tacoma, passed through here last week with two Chinamen in his charge, bound for McNeil Island, where they are going to do thirty days for being in the country without certificates, after which they will be furnished transportation back to their own country. They were arrested by Deputy Collector Dalton at Seaborg's cannery over on Shoalwater, and are supposed to be two of the sixteen that were recently landed at Stony Point from Victoria.
“Bound for McNeil Island, where they are going to do thirty days for being in the country without certificates, after which they will be furnished transportation back to their own country.”
The exclusion of Chinese laborers was a violent and state-sanctioned reality in Washington Territory and the early state. This short notice reflects the machinery of deportation that targeted people who had been essential to the region's early canning and fishing industries.
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