Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-05-21


TO lething's decision, with some mi
nor notifications regarding the de-
tails of the plebiscite. The anti-sale
element is now devoting it's attention
to influencing the voting of the ISL
4 anders themselves. 1t is known that
one influential person has already
mailed thousands of anti-sale circu-
lars to the island of St. Thomas.
SWEDEN.
:. During the field maneuvers in the
vicinity of Eslof the Good Templars'
hall at this place was utilized as 4
hospital. General Brakenhjelm was
highly pleased with the arrange
ments. This was the first time that
the three-lobed flag ever waved from
private building in Eslof
Most of the members of the second
chamber of the riksdag are evidently
dissatisfied with the suffrage reform
bill of the government. On the six
teenth of April no less than three diff
ferent original bills were introduced
in that body. The most important
one is that drawn up by the joint
committee of the united Liberal par
ty, which was supported by no less
than so votes. The main feature of
the bill is, that it makes communal,
or local, suffrage the basis of the
right to vote for members of the
second chamber of the riksdag. All
the bills introduced provide that the
age of the voter shall be at least 25
years.
When King Oscar arrived at Bar
ritz, France, all the streets leading
to Grand Hotel, where he was to stop,
were crowded with people though it
happened to be raining at the time.
When his majesty appeared all heads
were barred, and the royal hymn was
struck up. Preparations had been
made for an elaborate public recep-
ton, but the king was so tired after
the journey that he simply bowed to
the music band and next to the peo-
pie and disappeared in the hotel
building.
The Society for the Stationary De-
lenses of Norrland is pushing the
plan of building new railway
through central Norrland. The pro-
posed line will be a continuation of
the Sveg and Orsa railway, crossing
the Sundsvall and Storlien railway
at Ostersund and extending in a
northeasterly direction from the lat
ter place past Strom, Asele, Lycksele
and Arvidsjaur to Murjelz on the Lu-
lea and Gellivare railway. The So
ciety has just voted $1,000 for sur
'veying the stretch from Strom to
'Murjek.s
The rilsdag cannot finish it's work
any earlier than the last week of May.
What causes the greatest labor and
worry is the proposition to have the
state purchase the Norrland iron
mines. At the present stage this
problem is complicated enough to
stagger the brightest and ablest men
of Sweden.
The sum total of the philanthropic
bequests of the late Pontus Fursten-
berg of Gothenburg amounts to $780,
900.
About $50 bricklayers are on a
strike in Malmo. The strike was
brought about by the leaders rather
than by the rank and file of the
workingmen, and it is claimed that
the strikers are not in a position to
keep up the struggle for any great
length of time.
Five thousand Mauser rifles belong.
ing to the government have been dis.
tributed for sale among the voluteer
rifle clubs of Sweden.
Former Premier Bostrom is slated
for the governorship Of the province
of Stockholm, Mr.. Isberg, the pres.
ent incumbent, may be appointed
chief Justice of the Gotta Court.
The crown prince has donated a
4 number of articles from the camp
.of Andree on Danes Island to the
Z. Northern Museum, Stockholm.
9~ovornont hns heen3 set on foot