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In Washington state, mainly in the 2007 . That night five white men and two Native Americans climbed over the fence which enclosed the Wold brothers Chinese labor camps. The group fired into the tents of the sleeping Chinese workers, three were killed, three others wounded. In 1887 anti-Chinese hop farmer and merchant George W. Tibbetts provided a first-hand account of the violence at Issaquah. He said, in part, "Intense excitement was aroused all over the county and other attacks upon Chinamen followed and the entire Puget Sound country was torn with dissensions and bitter feelings almost to the point of civil war." Eventually three men were arrested for their part in the violence at Squak but they were all acquitted at trial.Long, Priscilla. " White and Indian hop pickers attack Chinese ," ''The Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History'', 1 July , 2000 . Retrieved 12 March , 2007 . SEE ALSO
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