Willmar tribune., 1900-05-30

| wards harmonizing the insurance. and
possibly other, laws of the countries
| represented. One of the speakers
maintained, with considerable empha.
sis, that the present desire for assim.
| ilating the laws of the scandinavian
countries is a practical result of the
"Scandinavian" movement of the mid
die of the nineteenth century.
SWEDEN.
In 1899 the Skane Sugar refining
company cleared ten per cent on the
capital invested.
The lumber companies that buy
large tracts of land in the mountain
districts for the purpose of cutting
the timber, often find: it difficult to
rent out the farms after the timber
has been destroyed But to leave the
farms and farm houses uninhabited
even for a short period means wreck
and ruin, and such homes may occa-
sionally be used without the payment
of any rent or taxes. In some in
stances the owners are not only offer
ing the use of the property free of
charge, but they are willing to fur
nish seed of all kinds free of charge
for one or two seasons.
The Neptune Wrecking Company
saved 70 vessels in 1899, and the re-
| ceipts of the company were almost
one million FIVE hundred thousand
dollars. The total receipts up to date
exceed $31,000,0O0. The attempt to
raise the Russian ironclad Gangut
failed, and the loss of the company on
that account was ALMOST 100000
Rajsa Kristina Olofsdotter, of An
undsjo, starved to death because she
could not swallow food. Though 81
years old she was so strong that she
lived Al days without food.
The question of fortifying Boden
has become very important since Rus
sia entered upon the policy of sup
pressing the liberty and the political
rights of Finland. The riksdag, in
obedience to the sentiment of the
Swedish people, is going to visit
Boden, in body, sometime in June
to inspect the grounds where the new
forts are to be built.
The Halland pomological society has
bought the Brostovp property in
Veinge parish for $500. The aim OF
the society is to establish a sort OF
cooperative colony for raising fruit.
A crew of $50 men are engaged in
laying the mains of the waterworks
of Malmo from Bulltofta to the city
The pumps have already been put up
at Bulltofta. They have capacity
of $4,000 cubic meters day.
The Gellivare Mining Company
shipped out almost one million tons
| of iron ore in 1899. The company
cleared about $4,000 that year, and
$4,000 of this amount has just been
set aside for pension fund.
The real estate owned by the Stora
Kopporberg Mining Company is val.
ued at almost $3,0o0,0OO.
The Swedish cabinet came out of its
recent trouble unscathed. The ultra.
conservatives exerted themselves most
strenuously to make political capital
out of the appointment of Thor Won
Ditten, Norwegian, to the highest
position in the foreign departments
A majority of the constitutional com.
mittee of the riksdag carried the
question to the point of proposing
impeachment proceedings against the
cabinet. But the riksdag, after hot
debate, resolved to spread the report
of the constitutional committee on
the minutes. The second chamber
also went on record as opposed to the
proposition.
''Beastly prosperous" The total re-
ceipts of the Stora Kopparberg Min
ing and Manufacturing. Company for
1899 were about $4,OOO,0OO. The net
profit was $645,00o, or 25 per cent on
the capital invested. Only IA per cent
was distributed as dividends. $27O, ,0OO
was set aside for improvements, and
$1,000 for the employees aid fund.
Mrs. Eleonore Dickson, of Gothen-
borg, has bequeathed $1,000 to Or.
gryte parish, $4,000 to a pension fund
for all servants, $4,000 to the Gothen-
burg Teachers association, $4,000 to
the Gothenburg cooking school and
smaller amounts to a great number OF
friends and servants.
The riksdag has passed bill cur
failing the rights of>great landowners
at local elections. The limits fixed by
the bill are very plain; no single man
shall cast more than one-tenth of the
whole vote of the commune, and nc
single man shall cast more than 5000
votes in all. As stated some time age
in these columns, there are at least
sixty precincts in Sweden where one
man is entitled to cast majority o1
all the votes at a local election. The
bill cannot becalled radical, but in the
first chamber of the riksdag there
were only g. votes in favor of it an6
60 against it. The king. will no doubt
ratify the bill. H -
-. NORWAY. '..@
Bjornson, in his latest assault upor
the Norwegian-Nofwegian language
speaks of '''the Norwegian cave-dwell
er philosophy which holds that we be
come fat by sucking our own paw
(many people believe that the beal
sucks his paw during winter)., anc
-fatter the more deeply we suck, with
out any foreign seasoning, not ever
SALT '+>..= s.. s. sbz-5s-s - :
About 1000 persons participated il
the First Of May demonstration il
Kristiania. Seyenty-four societie.
were represented by banners in the
parade. T.: "a .s.. Il. &@z:ss..z.
The central committee Of the con
servative clubs in Kristiania has de
cided that the pure flag ought tt