Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-09-05

1or landscape painting AZ the Berlin
academy. The Norweg ian mountains
and fjords were painted in a master
~ manner by GUIDE and Tidemand,
his associate. Ane of their most not
ed paintings is the "Hordanger Wed.
ding Party"
t. SWEDEN.
A German-American daily, in. an
editorial on the exploitation of water
power by means of the dynamo,
makes the following remark on Swed-
en- and Norway: " But above all 9TH
er countries Sweden and Norway may
at some future date rank among the
leading industrial countries; for the
entire Scandinavian peninsula is rich
in great waterfalls, and in the interior
OF the country there is still an unde-
veloped abundance of metallic ores.
And all around the peninsula runs
the most convenient highway of traf-
tic, namely, the ocean,"
All Swedish sugar refneries have
raised the price of sugar one-fourth
cent per pound.
The Kiirunavaara iron ore is not
suitable for smelling in charcoal fur
naces because it contains as much az
one per cent OF phosphorus: But at
Tualluvaara, about three (English)
miles east of Kiiruna, bed of iron
was discovered in 1899 which contains
very small proportion of phosphor-
us, but the percentage of iron of
which runs from 81 to 6sH. 1t is
supposed that this ore can be profit
ably reduced in the old iron region
of Central Sweden, and 5000 tons of
it was mined last winter. Part of this
has already been taken to furnaces in
Vermland. The government railways
offered reduced rates; but it was still
found cheaper to take the ore by
rail to Ofoten, Norway, thence by
steamer to Gothenburg, by barges
on a canal to Venersborg, and finally
by rail to the furnaces. 49,
Ripe lingon (small, red berries, tast-
ing like cranberries) were picked at
Engelholm as early as Aug. 4.
Who is going to be bishop of tho
new diocese of Hernosand? Prof.
Da11ell has been proposed. But Rev.
P. P. Waldenstrom wants Rev. Berg
quist of Gellivare, and he proposes
to have him appointed by means of
the following stratagem: The minis
ters of the diocese are advised to
nominate Bergquist and two impossi-
| BILE candidates., for instance, Arch
bishop Ekman and Waldenstrom.
Tage Jonn of Lund has invented a
new counting machine which is said
to be very practical for adding long
columns of figures. The invention has
been patented in Sweden and Ger
many.
A part of the first division of the
army will be called out to field man
euvers in the country around Horny
in September.
| Jemtlandsposten does not shrink
from publishing sensational news.
The paper claims to be in possession
of the most momentous secrets of
European politics: Germany is to
give Elsass and Lot1ringen back to
France and to receive some of the
Baltic provinces in return; an alliance
is to be formed by Germany, France,
England and Japan; England and
Germany will take big slices of terri
tory in the far east; France is to con-
troll the railways of Russia until she
has received the 7,00O,O0O,O00 francs
! loaned to Russia by French capital
lists; Finland will become free, etc.
It must be constantly kept in mind
that Jemtlandsposten is published on
the shores of Storsjon (Big Lake,, the
abode of the fabulous Big Lake mon
ster (Storsjoodjuret), from which
nothing has been heard for several
months past.
The greatest cooperative concern
in Sweden is the workmen's trading
company in Eskilstuna, which han
dies goods for almost 100000 year,
The chief of police of Stockholm,
in the police gazette published a de-
tailed account of the supposed anar'
chists that came from America.
| Engineer Berggren has proposed
that an experimental farming settle
ment be established on the Koskivara
bog, which is located north of the
Polar circle, on the railway between
Boden and Gellivare. The tillable
land at this place has an area of 1000
acres. If this experiment succeeds it
means that the whole, of Norrbotten
with it's 100000 acres of bog land
can be reclaimed for agricultural pur:
poses.
Rain has been falling almost con.
stantly and weary heavily for the last
fortnight upon the rye fields of the
provinces of Upsa]a and Soder1nan-
land. The sheaves are af1oat in the
deluge and the harvesting is COM
pletely arrested. The losses are esti-
mated at several million crowns.
| 1t is announced that one hundred
of the wealthiest merchants of Stock
holm will visit the United States and
the St. Louis fair in ythe autumn of