The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-11
RAMSEY RELIEF WORK.
o't'zens Meeting Held In St. Paur-word
From Sweden,

7e'o IN st. Pauf-Word
From Sweden
neie1 work in Ramsey county NO. =.
sdn,zeo Yesterday by a 'fcftizens, ,,se+; -
D az the Commercial club. ST Paul e
+erso o'es was chairman and Edward %.
urped g. stscTetarv; Governor Van SAINT
tu eeu 81 raul to remember +he 1901
that form so important a. frsot ne people
STATE population. He wo,,Id r. " y; the
pointea: ne said. if Minnesota ~; d'S.p -.
"a @i 81 S!oo.OOO. Louis johnson s,is ~ ~.
s 81 o ooo would be needed in swedo,, INA.
Vvv,oeo IN Finland. Other Speakers 1 ,.,.u
ToIee,, 1 n1!I Rev A. j. D. Hauet. Dr A
A general D onna,s,; Hochran and D. R. Noyes.
1 Totg officers: Chairman. Rev - T. 'ne
1ulitston; vice chairman CharI., M ", "a
p!on, secretary, ey.."ThoInas NaIso,,.
9istanI secretary, Gust Bodin :. tree s,,. as
49, an a mistake. is the Inference fro.,
M ra,, 'enntiands Tiding,'. a Swedish news
ceivad I ~ OF which have just been 10
no s,ffen;,, m'ilneap obs; there is no famine
~, ~ sulleinls In Sweden. The .Tidnina ane,
d. consider the matter worth n1ention does
nu. 10 points out that in the united sta+e:
peopie are freezing too death. AM,,oh 80 %
IS devoted to the HCold ana Goal Es 49,
IN America The Suffering her. as. lille
eie poor Is called indescribable ..u,.n'.s
~ state come reports of people freeztna
10 Death But the Tidnine has 49, ing
suggested the propriety Of send;r naot yet
trloutlons to America. -, :. 0oii-
Seeking for Work,
:, The pride and self-relfance Of the fam :
- sufferers rs manifested in the story told
" al American correspondent bv Dr IT I'd
VIZ des Vylder, president of.dther ,I,nrn "a
Na1ey Agricultural high school. .oFhinju
Gao children. miles from home save ~
ue Vylaer, come to us in the. rco,irsa: ~
Journeys to school with pitiable .reonests
ior WORK. They bring US all sorts of crude
~ iashloned things in wood and birch
Dark TO sell for money or food.
Impoverished farmers. in like ,,,,nnar
have turned woodworkers and ha rL1as1,
ers. Women that are ordinarily busv with
houseWork have became broom mo lers
and Wool-carders. IT is most striking the
universal Willingness and even anxietv nj
the famine victims to work at sometime
Ihey give the lie to those SANDERS ct
the TIMBER merchants, who represent our
peasants as lazy good -for-nothings anx-
ious to make a bad crop the nrafext for
hosting the black flag OF famine. ;.
Need Of Seed Grain.
How to supply the need for seed grain
W., WI soon become the most pressing prob
lem OF the famine situation. Governo,
Kari Bergstrom of Norrboten announces
that expert grainbuyers have been com
m1slsoned to scour the country high and
low In search Of grain that has been az.
chmated' to the high ATTITUDES where The
crops nave failed. For such grain, that
VIII come TO maturity within the short
summer under the arctic circle the com
mlssioners have been authorized to nav al.
most any price. Even in Canada, search
IS being made for seed of the requisite
hardness.
According to Professor Martin Berg.
strom. teacher of practical agriculture a,
the Iornea Valley agricultural school
more than one-third Of the land in the
1amlne district Is devoted to the raising
OF barley OF this grain at least 42G. 900
| bushels must be secured for seed. Oats
to the amount Of 100000 bushels will bf
demanded, and $4,000 bushels of rye.