Tanaka

Being held under a warrant of deportation, appellant, a Japanese woman, petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus. From a judgment dismissing the writ she appeals.

The grounds of the order of deportation were that appellant was found (1) managing a house of prostitution; and (2) assisting a prostitute. In form and procedure the hearing accorded by the immigration officials was fair, and the only real question is whether the evidence is sufficient to support the findings.

Appellant testified that she was born in Japan in 1885, and in 1907 she, with her husband, came to the United States, where she has continued to reside up to the present time, with the exception of two visits to Japan, each covering about a year. In 1919, the occasion of her second visit, her husband went with her to Japan where he has continued to' reside, with their three children, two of whom were bom in this country and one in Japan. The reason she gives for her husband’s return to the old country is that he was afflicted with rheumatism.

Appellant returned from her last visit in 1920, and in the following year she leased the Le Roy Hotel or rooming house at Seattle, which she continued to operate up to the…