Ex parte Woo Jan

COCHRAN, District Judge.

This is an application by Woo Jan, a Chinaman, for a writ of habeas corpus and discharge thereon from the custody of Thomas Thomas, an immigrant inspector of the United States, who holds him under a warrant issued by the Secretary of Labor. That officer claimed the right to issue it by virtue of the act of February 20, 1907. The warrant charges that Woo Jan is an alien; that he landed at the port of San Francisco, Cal., May 2,1913, and that he has been found in the United States in violation of that act, in that he has been found therein in violation of the Chinese…