Title: "Japs Win at Steveston," Seattle Times, 7/17/1900, (ddr-densho-56-17)
Densho ID: ddr-densho-56-17

Japs Win at Steveston.

By Leased Wire.

CHICAGO, Tuesday, July 17. -- A special to The Record from Vancouver, B.C., says:

A desperate fight took place last night at the fishing town of Steveston, on the Fraser River, between 800 Japanese and Chinese. There is a big fishermen's strike at Steveston, involving 7000 Japanese and white men and 3000 Chinese, and the Japanese and Chinese were idle.

A street row between a Japanese and a Chinaman occurred over a dispute as to whether or not a Japanese army of 10,000 men could [illegible] a Chinese army of 100,000 in the present war in China. The Japanese cut off the Chinaman's queue to emphasize his argument, and in five minutes 300 Japanese engaged in a hand-to-hand fight with 500 Chinese. The small posse of police was powerless to interfere and thousands of white fishermen watched the fun. In twenty minutes the Japanese had broken so many Chinese noses and cut off so many queues that the Chinamen fled.