Tacoma, November 4, 1885 Dear Governor:

. . . . The Chinese are no more in Tacoma, and the trouble over them is virtually at an end. Yesterday they were peaceably escorted out of town and put upon the freight and passenger trains this morning. . . .

The twenty-five or thirty Chinamen who were permitted to remain a day for purposes of packing . . . will leave tomorrow morning; then Tacoma will be sans Chinese, sans pigtails, sans moon-eye . . . . It affords me genuine delight.

–John Arthur, 1885

How does Lum May’s testimony contradict John Arthur’s letter to the governor?

Arthur says the riot has ended, but May claims it is still going on.
Arthur says the immigrants were placed on trains, but May says they left on ships.
Arthur says the rioters acted calmly, but May says they acted brutally and violently.
Arthur says most of the immigrants have left, but May says many remain in Tacoma.