The law respecting undesirable immigrants is being rigidly enforced at the Summit, the great gateway to the Yukon, where Customs Inspector George Noot has been appointed to the position of immigration inspector.
The laws of Canada on the subject of immigration are very rigid and the only feature about the whole matter that is open to condemnation is that the laws were not put in force long before they were, for it is a well known fact that Yukon has been the dumping grounds for undesirables ever since the first rush to the country the fall of 1897.
Among the prohibited classes are those of feeble mind, idiots, epileptics, deaf, dumb, blind, (the three latter only when accompanied by members of their families who guarantee that they shall not become public charges) no pauper, professional beggar, vagrant, no person afflicted with a loathsome disease, no person who has been convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude, no prostitute or person who procures prostitutes or women for the purpose of prostitution.
It is proposed that the classes last mentioned will be put through rigid examinations and if any suspicion remains concerning them they will be turned back. Two Japanese women were lately refused admission by Inspector Noot and others will no doubt meet the sume fate. Two undesirable males were also turned back lately but they refused to stay out of Canada, passed around the entrance at the Summit and continued on this way. Inspector Noot pursued them and was at the Carcross bridge awaiting their arrival at that place where they were promptly arrested and duly deported.
In the event of deportation the inspector gives the person an order on the transportation company bringing such person into the country and that company must return the person beyond the boundary line. Among the most important questions propounded to a questionable person entering Canada are the following:
Age, sex, married or single, occupation, birthplace, citizenship, destination, money in possession, apparent condition of health.
Had this law been in effect last spring there is no doubt but that hundreds of those who then invaded this part of the country would have been turned back and the country would have been the better for it,
