Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-06-18
The Gardermoen drill grounds were

eral Ieet when thousands of soldiers
were summoned for the regular train
ing at that place. For days the men
spent their time shoveling, carrying
and hauling snow. In one place 3
pond was formed by the water from
the melting snow, and a detachment
was ordered to dip this up and carry
IL to spot where it flowed away
from the grounds. The men could not
keep their feet dry, and though they
were well cared for in other respects,
most OF them suffered from colds.
Ihe length of the term is As days, and
much OF this time was frittered away
because the snow prevented the men
from beginning their, regular work
at once. The military authorities are
severely criticized because they fixed
the time for the opening of the sea-
son at such an early date.
A large proportion OF the apple
trees around Kristiania were Destroy
ed last winter, partly by the snow,
partly by field mice, the snow split
ting the trees, the mice gnawing off
their bark. The trunks of the trees
were protected by splints of wood.
But the snow was so deep that the
mice reached the trees above the
spllnts. In some orchards only two
thirds of the trees will survive.
The storthing may have to pass
special laws for the control of the
liquor traffic in the city of Narvik.
Attempts are being made to raise
$4,000 for new South Pole expedi-
ton under the leadership of Capt. v.
Jensen. A whaling steamer named
Magdalena will be bought for the
use Of the expedition.
The storthing has unanimously
adopted motion urging the govern
ment to take up the question of per-
manent neutrality of Norway and
Sweden, and to find solution
guaranteeing the liberty and indie
pendence of both countries. The fact
that this resolution was unanimous,
is apt to have great weight with the
king and the Swedish rlksdag.
work will soon begin on the new
building for the Bank of Norway in
hrlstlania. The foundation will be
expensive because the solid rock can
be reached only at a depth of IS feet.
The estimated cost of the building is
100000.
Kristiania imported 100000 live cod
tish from Denmark in April.
SWEDEN.
August Palm is figuring on follow
ing in the footsteps of King Harold
Fair-haired of Norway by leaving
hair and beard uncut until universal
suffrage is established in Sweden.
The Stockholm typesetters' union
resolved to do no work on labor day.
May first.
A Cast Iron Constitution. A mes
senger boy named Rodolf DIN, who
was employed by the Limhamn CO.
ment company, was accidentally in
Jured in three differnt ways: One
of his shoulders was wrenched out of
joint, one of his legs was crushed,
and his skull was fractured. The
boy not only survived the shock, but
he is on a fair way to complete re-
covery.
Both chambers of the riksdag have
voted adversely Oh the proposition to
buy the plant of the Stockholm tele-
| phone company.
A. A. Aberg, a master blacksmith
at Ausas, Skane, has bought an old
war chariot which the Swedes are
| said to have captured from Wallen.
stein in the thirty years. war. The
vehicle has only one seat, and this is
supported by leather straps running
| longitudinally.
A fresh recruit in southern Sweden
was so anxious to enter the naval
service that the officers became curl.
! Gus and asked him for an explanation,
! which he made without the least hest
tation. ''My fancee is so fond of the
| uniform of the Marines" he said. But
his superiors were cruel enough to
assign him to the coast artillery.
The railway department has placed
| large orders for rolling stock with
home manufacturers. No less than "a
locomotive engines of different types
| and As passenger cars are included.
In order to put an end to the periodic
freight car famines of former years,
$40 new ones are to be added this
year. Ten of these will be butter cars
with cooling and heating appliances.
Captain Axel Appe1berg of Stock
holm has celebrated his 25 years jubi-
lee as director of the steamship in
surance company of Sweden, and the
most noteworthy gift received by
him on the occasion was a miniature
vessel of silver loaded with 10000
kroner ($S, 1907 in gold soins from the
shipowenrs of Sweden.
The resolutions which led to the
great political strike were passed by
overwhelming majorities. In Eskil-
stuna, for instance, at a mass meeting
attended by 1900 people, only two
votes were cast against the strike,
and in Helsingborg the resolutions
were carried unanimously. This prac-
teal unanimity on momentous
question is something very rare
among Scandinavians, and it must
have been this unanimity, and this
alone, that crippled the opposition to
general suffrage in the upper cham
Der of the riksdag. AS to the pro-
ceedings in the riksdag, we know
nothing but statement made in a
cablegram that both houses have vot-
ed for general suffrage.
Prof. J. Ericsson, at the Albano ex-
detrimental farm, near Stockholm, has
warned the Swedish farmers not to
plant potatoes imported from Ger
many because they contain germs
which may spoil the crop next fall.
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