Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-09-24
An important industry jeopardized.

An important industry jeopardized.
Large quantities of clinker bricks
have been exported from southern
Sweden to, Germany during the past
few years. There is no import duty
on this article in Germany. But in a
new tariff bill it is proposed to put
a tariff of six and one-half cents per
one hundred pounds. This feature of
the bill has caused some alarm among
the Swedish manufacturers of clinker
bricks, and they have memorialized
the king to negotiate with the Ger
man authorities with a view to a con-
tlnuation of the expectation of this
article from Sweden.
The use of peat for heating the
penal institutions Of the country has
proved unsatisfactory.
Vast tracts of timber land in Vcrm-
land are owned by the proprietors of
the uddeholm factories. The stuInps
grubbed by hand in these forests
yielded 10000 cords of wood in 1900.
A new mining company has been
organized in Ostersund under the
name of Puostak. The capital stock
has been paid in. The company owns
4o iron ore claims in Gellivare parish
and few strikes in other parts of
the country.
August Strindberg has just COM
pIeted two new dramas, Queen
kristina" and ''Gustaf ILL.," A large
part of the material is borrowed from
the history of Sweden. The dramas
will not be printed until they have
been represented on the stage.
The 'sugar barons'' of Skane have
employed surveyors to measure the
ground devoted to the raising of SUI
gar beets on each farm. In very many
cases the farmers have put more
ground to beets than the contracts
call for. In such cases the farmers
have to sign new contract in which
they promise to sell their extra beets
to no Swedish sugar factory. This
looks rather severe in view of the fact
that the crop is expected to be at
least rs per cent smaller than last
year. 1t must be added that many
farmers put too much ground to beets
because, in measuring off the ground
they used the traditional measure,
which is somewhat larger than the
legal surface measure.
The retail liquor trade in Skurup,
Skane, is in the hands of the highest
bidder from year to year. The pres
ent dealer, Eric Wickstrom, pays $5,-
900 for the privilege during the year
1902. At the annual auction held a
few days ago, the privilege for 1908
was knocked down to H. j. Anderson
of Skurup. who offered $4,000.
Gustaf Forsell of Safsjo, who was
one of the number of men engaged in
putting up telegraph wire south of
the Lumhult railway station, had just
crossed the highway, carrying coil
of wire on his shoulders, when team
passed by. The driver raised the wire
and let the wagon pass under it. But
suddenly the horses We're frightened
and started to run. The driver drop
ped the wire to grasp the reins. The
wire caught in the back part of the
wagon, and Mr.. Forsell was dragged
along the ground for a distance of
twenty-five yards. The wire was
frightened around his neck, and if one
of the other men had not cut the wire
at once Mr.. Forsell would have been
killed then and there. His neck was
already so badly injured that he could
hardly breathe, and his head was
bruised in several places. He was
taken to the Safsjo hospital on the
next train; but his life could not be
saved, and he died the next day.
The Good Templars of Landskrona
are raising money for the erection of
monument on the grave of C. w.
Brobjerg, a champion of temperance.
A number of English teachers at
tending the summer school at Mas
celebrated the coronation of King Ed
ward and Queen Alexandria in a con-
spicuous manner.