The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-07-11
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS.
STORY OF THE GREAT DAyISS' SET
ELEMENT IN IOWA.
Aelba Will sing at stockholm In
ptember-Norwsy Confempiates
AnnextnE the SpitEberEen Islands
Another Great WOODEN Industry
for Sweden.

Hosher treat WOODEN INDUSTRY
for Sweden.
In the Midland Monthly for July Mr..
r , White writes about a Danish set
uenent IN Iowa. numbering 5.0so people.
IL bold peassntry' coutented and
happy IN homes Of their own. is the hope
OF a nations perpe.aasion. the United
states need not regret the coming OF the
descendants Of the Vikings. It has BEN
an interesting STUDY 10 watch the steady
use OF these young men since their ar
riFal, some of them in tine buying IN air
employees farms. In Jackson township
SheioF county. within q radius OF about
Two miles. can be found five farms of
TWO AaaaEsG or more acres each. be-
iVRslhs 10 Danes who twenty years ago
We're considered very poor. In the eet-
uemert are a number OF Danish farms Of
over a2 acres each When we consider
that these men came here unable 10
speak our tongue, unfamiliar with ArneTi-
can customs and laws, unused 10 the
AfcdoctS or Yankee inventive genius. and
NithaL lacking the almighty dollar and
tne Danish krone. their success must be
declared phenomenal
ne secret OF their advancement seems
TO he IN their unceasing industry and
rigid economy. Every mock ana corner
o. their land is carefully cultivated. IN
productive points and ridges On which
so many farmers shower nothing but
ctrses, are treated 20 load after load Of
Iertiizing elements. Nothing is wasted.
NO less rapid has been tho reward OF
Danish talent engaged n pursuits other
than agriculture. Every town OF any
size in the district in question has -four
ishing stores managed by Danish ner-
chants. Many OF our teachers are
Danes or Danish-Amoricars. The coun'v
superintendent OF Shelby. for example IS
graduate of the Iowa state normal
| school. being a Dane.
Here and there We see reflections CT
HE as II is on the old scd.' Few houses
there are not surrounded by poplar trees
I or unnr7 rldCu with a small vineyard and
neatly kept garden. Great focks of tame
pigeons fly about the buildings. Fat
| drink and be merry suits the Dane who
| is nothing X not sociabie and hospital Die"
Melba, me great singer will appear in
/ series Of concerts at the Stockholm en-
/ position in September
Christine Nilsson Countess Miranda ar
/ rived in Stockholm the latter part Of
/ June. She will soiourn in the capital
a couple of weeks and then proceed to
| feXio TO visit her native parish and
! childhoods haunts. An attempt will be
made 10 induce her TO sing at the expo
| sition before she returns to her home N
| Spain
| ]. Jepsen. the wooden goods manufacture
| er OF Bergen, Norway. has decided 10
| erect a large factory near GothenburS.
Sweden. This is an immediate result OF
/ the new tariff schedule now In force be-
/ tween Norway and Sweden by reason Of
/ the recent abrogation OF the interstate
/ commerce act Mr. Jepsen has largely
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! goods from his factory In Norway. IN
/ order to evade the tariff and still control
! the Swedish market Mr.. Jepsen has found
| it necessary TO take this step.
! Quite a colony of Scandinaviaus are at
! present sojourring in Brussels. some home
/ ward bound after several years service
| in the kongo state. others bound for the
/ Belgian colony. Prominent among the
| latter are H. Autell. one Of the leading
| jurists Of Sweden who has been appoint
| cd by King Leopold a member of the su-
| prenle court Of the Kongo al Bona. and
| II. HeSgen, who fer years has been en-
/ ployed in the department OF justice at
/ Christania. Norway. Mr. Heggen VIII
| act as the judicial potentate OF the Up
| per KonEo. The Norwegian Heutenants
! Boiler and Besche-Jurgens have Just re-
! turned from Africa. Three Danish lieu
! tenants and che Swedish sea captain are
| when orders are given. The little colony
makes its headquarters at Hotel du Ro-
cher de Cancale. near Place de In Nor
| male. where the future supreme justice
| Of the Kongo recently entertained his EEL
| low coUntrymen at a royal banquet
Axel Georg Dufberg a prominent civil
! engineer and politician. or Arboga. Swcd-
| en- has committed suicide IN 1T Of L.
| sHoudancy owing TO financial reVerses in
| CURED b. speculation.
Cen Booth is in Stockholm attending
| the twelfth annual congress of the Sal
walton army.
! Prominent Swedish-Americans Of Min
/ neapolis have called mass meeting FOR
| the purpose Of devising ways and means
| 10 raise the necessary funds for he erec-
! ton of a John Ericsson monument n
| the Flour City.
! Some fifteen months ago Charles Lund-
| beck left his home IN Brooklyn. y. Y
/ without informing either parents or
| friends about his departure. few DAYS
/ Pro his parents received word that he had
/ been promoted 20 lieutenant In the C&ban
| army after having served as volunteer In
| the ranks
/ Five thousand machinlsts IN Copenhagen
/ have gene on q strike
| One hur6re6 children from the famine
| stricken districts of india have during the
! past ftw months hecn adopted ty Swef-
/ ieh families From All reports the little
! Indian Sv,rdes seem 20 thrive well IN
/ the!r Wv homes
4 new. and frcm MI indications very
/ formidable bone ~ contention has s0rurg
! m between tbs Morse and Swedish gov
! e~unenfs VITA the delegation NJ thc
/ consular question u cort~~is-ion 70
seemed for ilr7e IS 4 there was nothing
! - mar mo relations Of the TWO countries
/ The Itopjsn dreamerS who looked for
/ ward - 81 frlctic rleSz summer have how
( ever counted without their host few
! II i1e4 o-it "a sea southwest from the Nttle
/ border town ~ Sviuo~urd Hes small W.
/ inhabited barren Island. which On Sws &
+ tsn mars SIS marked as belonging 20
/ Sweden while r. appears on Norwegian
! uapx - Norwegian island. The TWO
! governments haNc simultaneously Ievelsd
/ their eyeglasses on this abode - sea
! fowls ard soierurlv claimed 10 wo'ie the
I historians are searching the archives to-
/ tts pedigree.
I Dr FrlA.fof hansen w3li lecture In the
; Swedish tabernacle n Micrespclis No
/ ve.aber x. or his polar expedition
/ The German emperor VIII sreri -hs
] summer among the f3ords on TIRE west
{ ecast u Norway.
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