Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-08-22
Mexican Authorities Running Down Mclean Authorities Running Down
 Parties Engaged in Work.

Washington, D G.. Aug 22.-Smug- gling immigrants into the United States is not a new or novel practice, but the smuggling of fifty of them in- to the county in bunch is somewhat extraordinary. That is what l..n- pened recently on the Mexican bOr- der and the immigration authorities now are engaged in running down the culprits.
 Naturally, all of these fifty immi- grants were people who could not gain entrance to the United States through the regular gateways. All of them, in fact, had been rejected at their ports of enbarkation for one reason or other. Most of them afflicted with trnchoma, a disease of the eyes which the medical officials of the immigra- tion service declare to be contagious. Among Europeans and Asiatlcs of the peasant class the disease is very common. Invariably, when an immi- grant arrives at any port of the Uni ted States and is found to be inflicted with trachoma he is barred from en- trance and Is returned to the country whence he came at the expence of the steamship company which brought him. In addition, If 1t be found that the immigrant was afflicted with the disease when he started from his home port. the steamship company is fined S100. Despite the care of the company's officials, trachoma- afflicted immigrants arrive in this country ev. cry day. All of them are rejected promptly and really astonishing number of one hundred dollar fines is levied on the steamship companies.
 In the case which is being investi- gated by the immigration officials, about fifty Syrians who applied for passage to the United States at Naples, were rejected because every one of them had trachoma. They were anxious to get to the United States and began immediately to de- wise means of coming here. They were told that they could take pas sage to Mexico and thence would have easy opportunity to reach the United States. The entire bunch of fifty landed in Mexico nearly two years ago. There they remained, the majority of them for nearly year. All of them were peddlers and they piled their vocation pending theiI advent into this country. They work ed their way northward and finally in twos and threes were smuggled across the border into the United States at point near Laredo. Tex. They paid the smugglers SIP each for their passage. After reaching this country they separated, each looking out for himself.
 One of the Syrians. John Shahadie Jacob. was located in St Louis by James R. Dunn. the immigration in- spector in charge In that city. Dunn suspected the man mad been snug gled into the country when he found nim afflicted with trachoma, and placed him under examination. The fellow lied like a pirate, but his story did not hang together. Sub sequently. Dunn again examined him. He weaked and disclosed the whole story of the fifty fellow countrymen of his who had been smuggled with him into the country. Under oath he admitted he had not told the truth the UreI IlIUt ne NuS cIduIiutu. Ilc gave the names of the men who had accompanied him from Syria and so far as he could their places of resi- dence now In the United States.
 Jacob Is possessed of some money and has made considerable since he came to America. He was anxious to get here. he said. because he had learned that he. could make money easily in this country. He will be de ported. but pending his return to Sy- ria. he Is being held by the fmmi1ra- ton authorities to assist in locating his comrades Some difficulty may be experienced in capturing the entire or.fit of fifty. but the officials expect to get the greater number of them Every orc taken will be deported un- der the law. Efforts are being made. too. to capture the smueglers on the Mexican border and they are expect