Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-12-28
FINLAND

FINLAND
Car Nicholas has appointed COM
mittee to harmonic the Finnish and
Russian laws. Prof. Matens, a Norwe-
gian by birth, is one of the ''Russian''
members of the committee
Governor General Obolenski handed
the national marshal's staff to Vice
President Under Of the senate, whom
the car had appointed to the position
of national marshal Professor Wuor-
enheimo was next sworn as vice mar
shall. Archbishop Johansson (Luth-
eran) of Ado was appointed speaker of
the house of the clergy, and Bishop
Rabergh as his assistant. The cere-
monies took place in the small hall of
the imperial palace.
The exiled members of the landtdag
of Finland will be left in peace in the
country during the session of the
landtdag.
DENMARK
Eleven pavilions ordered by ex-Em-
press Dagmar of Russia were taken to
the Manchurian army by Sophus Falck
of Copenhagen. The special train car
building from st. Petersburg to Man
churia was made up of "a cars.
A monument to Sophus Schandorph
was unveiled at Ostre Anlag, Copen-
hagen. Prof. Otto Borchsenius gave
the monument to the city authorities
Of Copenhagen.
A Danish daily calls attention to the
sweeping character of the arbitration
treaty concluded between Denmark
and Holland Feb. 12, 1904. The first
paragraph Of the document provides
that all differences that cannot be set
tied by diplomatic means shall be re-
ferred to The Hague tribunal This
treaty, therefore, provides for peace
full arbitration along the whole line,
while the English French treaty, for
instance, mentions only differences of
a judicial nature or ambiguous points
in existing treaties. The Danish Daily
suggests that the small states follow
the path thus pointed out by Denmark
and Holland.
SWEDEN
A Norwegian general has proved
that the monument to King Charles
MIL, at Fredrikshald, is located at a
wrong place, and it has been suggested
that the Swedish government remove
it to the exact spot where the great
war king breathed his last. Monu-
ments to him have been raised at four
different places near Fredrickshald,
which goes to prove the difficulty of
finding the ri ght spot. 1t is taken for
granted that the Norwegians will make
no objection to the removal of the
monument, though the place is located
in Norway.
A society has been organized in Goth
enburg for the purpose of procuring
homes for it's mem bers
December is the day when a rich
shower of decorations of honor fall
from the hands of King Oscar. The
number of decorations distributed this
year was so large that the names of
the happy recipients would fill four
columns in this paper.
A mallet weighing 90 pounds and
measuring about six feet was caught
in Big Hjalmaren lake. This is said
to be the biggest fish ever caught in
that lake.
Military movements are greatly
by the difficulty of obtain
ing permission to operate on private
land Even when the owners receive
reasonable pay for the damage done
they have all sorts of objections. A
farmer at Sannahed is supposed to have
voiced the sentiment of many when he
said that he did not want soldiers on
his farm because he ''does not like to
see the military"
The fruit crop for the past year was
slightly above the average. On &C.
oount of the severe drouth the ''melon"
and russell apples did not do well, but
the Gravensten apples resisted the
drouth splendidly. The fruit does not
keep so well as usual, which is also
due to the drouth.
The principle of socialism is evident
ly making Roadway in Stockholm. The
city is already running a labor bureau.
and next spring a bakery and laun-