Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-05-25

Wan countries in the latter part of
August.
The first Scandinavian vegetarian
congress will be held in Copenhagen
July II. A part of the program is a
vegetarian dinner, to which many
non-vegetarians will be invited.
SWEDEN.
p. P. Waldenstrom is kind enough
to announce that he will cross the
Atlantic with the Hellig Olav, which
will leave for America July IA.
The government bill for enabling
poor laborers to procure homes of
their own has made that question a
public issue which is discussed in all
circles. 1t is universally agreed that
the problem cannot be solved unless
the government provides for loans on
small properties. Many practical bust
ness men hold that employers, supply
companies or other local organiza-
tions ought to act as mediators be-
tween the government and the indi-
vldual beneficiaries, or else abuses
would soon imperil the plan. The
government puts the maximum value
of the farms to be acquired at about
$1,000, while the committee elected by
the riksdag proposes about $1,1OO as
the limit. 1t is pointed out by many
that family cannot be supported by
farm worth only $l,100, and the
owner would be dependent upon his
employer, and at the same time tied
to d certain locality
The Nobel Dynamite Trust Com
pany has declared a dividend Of per
cent for the past year.
Adolf Hedin insinuated in the riks-
dag that the Swedish government is
always favoring the money power.
Premier Bostrom took the trouble to
rebuke the speaker on this occasion,
but he admitted that the charges
made by Hedin made that day 1.-The
saddest in all his political career"
King Oscar was to return to Stock
holm May is after his trip to the
south.
a four days course Of scientific
temperance lectures will be given in
Malmo next fall.
The welko was heard as early as
April 80 in Skane. That bird is very
rarely heard before the first of May
in Sweden.
A new temperance restaurant called
the Concorda was dedicated at NAL
mo few days ago, the attendance
being about $1,000
Carl ,Johan Haase. of Lund. is no
more. He was born in 1918, and en-
tered the University of Lund in 1888.
On the 3Oth of November in that year
the accidental discharge of gun in
the hands of L. NJ. Dahl, another stu
dent, rendered Mr.. Haase totally blind
for life. When he left the university
he was followed by a large process
sion through the streets, and the
demonstrate was sadder than most
funerals. Mr.. Dahl was heavily fined
for his carelessness. Mr.. Haase made
a living as music teacher at Ystad for
many years, but Lund has been his
home for some time past. Few NOR
tails are compelled to live in utter
darkness sc years, as Mr.. Haase did.
Col. l.. Tungsten has been instructed
to write an account of the Swedish
rifle clubs for the almanac
of 1906. 1t is too late to have the ar
ticle printed in the almanac for 1905.
OF the iron ore exported from
Sweden, partly by water, in 1908, t.
$40 tons was carried in foreign
ships. and only S93,S06 tons in Swed-
ish ships. These figures are natural
ly very displeasing to the Swedish
The Swedish building at the St.
Louis Worlds Fair costs about $751;
500. Only $4,000 of this amount has
been raised up to May first, and a
new appeal was made to the public
to raise the balance.
Eight persons were injured at Sod
erfors by the explosion of a cannon
of primitive construction. They are
all expected to live, but seven Of them
were taken to a hospital in Upsala.
The occasion was the celebration of
"Nalborgmass."
About 1000 stone-cutters were
locked out in southwestern Sweden,
and several hundred others went on
a sympathetic strike. The quarries
not affected by the controversy will
not employ any of the striking or
lockedout men.
King Oscar is going to his summer
resort in Marstrand earlier than usual
this year. He will be there about
the first of July, and his headquar-
ters will be on land this summer.
A majority of the committee on
constitutional amendments is in fav-
or of the so-called Lindblad amend
ments to the government suffrage re-
form bill. These amendments provide
that the country shall be divided into
districts entitled to three representa-
tives each in the second chamber of
the ril>sdag; that proportional repre-
sentation shall be feature of the
bill; and that the smaller cities shall
be entitled to IS sents, and not So,
as proposed by the government. The
bill was to be taken up for discus
sion May IS.
According to the report of the roy
al library for the year 1908 the num-
Der Of newspapers and periodicals
published in Sweden was 74O, of
which 361 were general newspapers.
The number of books printed was
1880, and that of pamphlets and leaf
lets 1929. The whole number of
printed publications is said to have
been 22,241.
o.o MN 4lo H., l. I, =.