In re Rustigian

BROWN, District Judge.

The petitioner is a subject of the Sultan of Turkey, resident in Burrillville, R. I. His declaration of intention *981to become a citizen of the United States was filed February 31, 1906. His present petition was filed July 15, 1908.

Prior to July 15, 1.908, his wife, Egsha Rustigian, a Turkish subject, had come to this country for the first time, and on June 18, 1908, was refused admission by the immigration officers at New York as an alien afflicted with a dangerous contagious disease, trachoma. She is detained at the Immigration Hospital at Ellis Island, New York.

The…