Squak Valley Rioters Remanded to Jail
Seven men accused of the murder of Chinese miners at Squak waive their preliminary examination.
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Yesterday forenoon, the seven parties charged with the murder of three Chinamen at Squak were taken before Justice Lyon to undergo a preliminary examination. J.B. Lewis, Struve, Haines & McMicken, and F.M. Head appeared for all the defendants except Hotowtson, who was accompanied by James Jenner. J.H. Lear appeared for Indian Charley. The defendants, one and all, waived examination and were remanded to jail without bail to await the action of the Grand Jury.
“The defendants, one and all, waived examination and were remanded to jail without bail.”
The 1885 anti-Chinese expulsion era is the darkest chapter in Seattle's history. The violence at the coal mines in Issaquah (then Squak) was part of a coordinated effort across the Pacific Northwest to terrorize and displace Chinese laborers, a struggle that echoes the region's long, complicated history with racial exclusion and the displacement of marginalized communities.
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