Railroad Workers Hanged a Chinese Laborer near Tekoa

A short notice in The Daily Astorian reported that a Chinese laborer seeking work on the railroad near Tekoa was “hanged to a limb” for defying the edict of white workers that “no Chinese need apply.” The sparse report links the killing directly to labor exclusion and racial animus. It shows how anti-Chinese labor violence in the Northwest could still culminate in lynching at the close of the 1880s.