Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-03-04

T. 1t has been repeatedly stated IN
these columns that King Oscar estab--
ished three sanitoriums for consump-.
tives by means of the $600,0 900 which
he received as a gift on the occasion
Of his twenty-five years jubilee. The
institutions are decided success. Ac-
cording to the reports of Jan. 81 there
were SO men and 81 women at Hala-
hult, 81 men and Al women at Ostera-
sen, and 50 men and 81 women at
Hessleby. The numbers of those
whose applications had been granted
and who were waiting for vacant
places at the sanitoriums were as fol-
lows on the same date: AT Halahult,
139 men and &C women; at Osterasen,
66 men and II wOmen;~ and at Hessle-
by, los men and SO women.
The telegraph department of Swed-
ell may celebrate it's semi-ccntennial
enc of these days. The first telegraph
line in Sweden was built between
Stockholm and Upsala. Work was
commenced in January, 1853, and the
first message was sent July Is the
same year. Sweden now has 10000
(English) miles of telegraph post lines
and cable lines and $4,000 miles of
wires.
Over thirty members of the riksdag
have recommended K. p. Arnoldson
for the next Nobel peace medol. Mr..
Arnoldson is a Swede who has agi-
tated for peace and international ar
bitration for thirty years past.
Two Lapps who were armed with
only one muzzle-loader attacked a
bear in his den at Stora Lulevatten.
The result of the conflict was, that the
men were worsted, and the bear crept
back into his den. When the men
reached their homes bruised and
beaten they began to lay plans for a
new battle. But next time Bruin will
have to face a breech-loading rifle.
The sugar beet grows in Ostergot-
land, and certain capitalists are about
to establish distillery for the con-
sumption of sugar beets rs raw ma
terial.
Frau Won Mecklenburg, the German
lady who owns the Lung estate, o.
tergotland, has to face new difficult
ty. All fire insurance companies which
have Teen doing business with her in
thepa st have notified her that they
can no longer keep her property in
sured. This, in turn, has induced the
bankers whom she owes money to
consider the ACCESSIBILITY of with
drawing their loans at the earliest OPP
portunity. Just as Miss Anna Won
Mecklenburg returned from Stock
holm, where she had made unsuccess-
full efforts to have the property. in
sured, the five German servants left
the Lung mansion in q body and re-
turne a to Germany.
An appeal has been made through
the newspapers to prosperous people
in southern Sweden to take care of
children from the famine stricken dis
tricts of Norrland. To this PROPOSE
ton a good authority makes the fol-
lowing objection: Everything diff
fers in the two extremes of our coun-
try. It would be the same as to go
to America. A Norrlander will feel as
much like a stranger in Skane as q
person from Skane in AMERICA"
The army and navy of Sweden will
require about $22, 100000 for the pres
ent year.
There is more than usual activity in
the real estate market on the "plains"
of Skane. Farms containing about 80
acres are the most desired. The prices
on the fertile plains vary from $3.50
to $215 per acre, and the best land
may be rented out at about $3.50 an
acre. The prices are much lower in
the timber settlements, where the soil
is lighter; but even there the demand
for land is more brisk than usual.
DR.. Sven Hedin lectured on his trav-
els in Central Asia before the geo.
graphical society of Lyons, France,
and at the close of the lecture he re-
ceived the gold medal of the society.
Six officers of the Swedish army
who attended the Holmenkollen
games in Kristiania, Norway, visited
Grand Hotel Cafe in the evening to
find out how the plain people felt to-
wards. the Swedes. The appearance
of the Swedes were hailed with bois-
ferrous demonstrations of delight, and
for about an hour the hundreds of
people in the cafe, seemed to have
nothing else in view but to do honor
to the Swedish guests. The singing
of national hymns constituted an inn
portant part of = the impromptu pro-
gram. F.. - ~
A young man named Paulson. at
Eslof, has astonished the physicians
by his tenacity of life. About the
middle of December last railway car
passed over his left. shoulder, clipping
off the arm, parts of the shoulder and
parts Of the chest. The physician