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Washington Territory’s race-based, discriminatory Chinese Police Tax May 12, 2021 at 12:05 pm
The earliest known image of what s now Bellingham the community of Whatcom, as it appeared in 1873; the Chinese Police Tax, for some reason, was legally higher in Whatcom County. (Whatcom Museum)
The violent expulsion of Chinese people from West Coast cities in the 1880s – including Seattle and Tacoma – is a dark chapter of Northwest history. But anti-Chinese discrimination in the Northwest can be traced back even further, to a law passed by the Washington Territorial Legislature in 1864.
A thesis about the evolving boundaries of counties in Washington Territory and the state of Washington published back in the 1920s (and reissued by the Yakima Valley Genealogical Society and Klickitat County Historical Society in 1979) mentions an 1864 law that created the race-based “Chinese Police Tax.” This law – and this tax – writes original author Newton Carl A
HISTORY
Chinese gold miners are slaughtered in the Hells Canyon Massacre
The Hells Canyon Massacre begins on May 27, 1887, in Lewiston, Washington Territory, in what is now Idaho. The mass slaughter of Chinese gold miners by a gang of white horse thieves was one of many hate crimes perpetrated against Asian immigrants in the American West during this period.
Two groups of Chinese workers were employed by the Sam Yup Company of San Francisco to search for gold in the Snake River in May of 1887. As they made their camps along the Snake River around Hells Canyon, a gang of seven white men who were known as horse thieves ambushed them, shooting them until they ran out of ammunition, mutilated some of the bodies and threw them in the river, and made off with several thousand dollars’ worth of gold. Although the eventual indictment listed 10 counts of murder, other accounts hold that the seven white riders killed a total of 34 people.
Clark County History: Columbia Lancaster By Martin Middlewood, for The Columbian
Published: May 2, 2021, 6:00am
Share: This painting of Columbia Lancaster hangs in the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma. His friends called him Judge because he sat on the Oregon Territorial Provisional Government Court before the Washington Territory was formed in 1853. Later he became the first district judge in the Washington Territory and its first delegate to Congress. (Contributed by Washington State History Museum)
Columbia Lancaster’s mother changed the boy’s name from Thomas after Meriwether Lewis visited their home in New Milford, Conn., and told the family about the great river of the West.
145 years ago
The School Building of the Sisters. We are informed that so soon as the brick shall be burnt, the contemplated buildings of the Catholic Sisters will be commenced. We learn that one will be a large edifice and will be constructed of stone and brick. It must be confessed that the lot of ground selected for the purpose, that recently purchased of M.Y. Stewart, is as eligible a location as could have been found in the State.
140 years ago
There are now ten or twelve cases of typhoid fever in the city but none are regarded by the physicians as of a dangerous type. The disease is not contagious as is generally supposed, but is sometime epidemic and caused by defective drainage. A pool of stagnant water is more apt to cause typhoid fever than other cases in which people are brought in contact.