Seattle is complaining of the "rent hog" which term is applied to landlords who are raising the price of rent whenever occasion offers. We visited a friend at Seattle last week who had two small rooms on the sixth floor of a 10-story building and pays $65 per month rent. Laboring men have been required to pay as high as $60 per month rent for a house that, in Moscow or nearby towns, would probably command from $15 to $20. A small apartment of from two to three rooms brings from $35 to $60 per month. The "rent hogs" are hurt.

Wouldn't it be a good idea for congress to solve the problems of government ownership of railroads and telephone and telegraph lines, and pass a revenue bill before it offers world. When a man enters the prize ring, he must gain a reputation before he is taken into "exclusive" circles, giving Seattle more than the "flu" to settle the peace terms of the entire "Go and get a reputation" is the advice given the young aspirant for pugilistic honors. This advice might well be given the American congress.

All who believe that Vane, the north Idaho criminal who was soon to begin serving a six years sentence in the federal penitentiary, fell out of a boat with a bundle of clothing and that... 