Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-12-06

"a conflict IN the book Binding trade.
in G0thenburg has been settled. both
parties having signed an agreement
which Il . be In force TO July 1. 1s11.=
The executive committee Of the II, -
900 machinists who were locked out
for more than twenty weeks have
published a Blacklist containing the
names and addresses OF all the men
who remained at work in the Stock
holm machine shops during the lock-
out Those men are branded az scabs.
About 10000 persons have signed q
petition TO- the king asking for spe-
cial clause In the commercial treaty
with Germany, admitting Swedish
stone free OF duty to Germany.
The city council OF Esk:lstuna has
resolved to establish a public slaugs-
ter-house at cost Of $4,000.
Anders Anderson OF Gladsax rented
small farm on a rocky hill-top near
Simrtshamn. The place was almost
worthless when: he took hold OF it.
But he knew his business. and his
endurance rs a laborer had no parallel
In the neighborhood. He spaded up
the top soil and threw 1t into piles.
Then he hauled thousands Of loads Of
gravel on the ground and threw the
soil back on top OF the gravel Finally
he obtained the position Of scayenger
Of Stmrishamn, and every night sew
eraI loads Of manure were hauled out
upon his farm, until the soil became
50 rich that it yielded twenty times
as much as it did before he touched it
O1of Hogberg, a Sundsvall Journal
list, has written novel which he calls
The Great WRATH and for which
the 1dun periodical has paid a prize
OF $l,35O- 1t Is said to be a work Of
high rank, and the people Of Norrland
will be particularly interested in It.:
One critic calls it 1.-The epic Of Norr-
land"
Or. v. Berglund of Halmstad pro-
poses to build a sanatorium for con-
sumptives in Breared parish. near
Halmstad. The institution is to ac-
commodate from 20 to "a patients.
The nineteen sugar factories Of
Sweden consumed 1000 tons Of sugar
beets in the month of October.
The government has let the contract
for building a new torpedo destroyer
to the Kockum company Of Malmo.~
1t looks as if the Nobel chemistry
prize for this year Will be given to
Prof. Bamberger Of Tenrich.
The machinists' lockout is a thinx
Of the past, but it cost millions upon
millions of dollars. About $4,000 men
who had been idle the larger part OF
the year returned to work Nov. IL.
Queen Sophie is still staying at
Sauna, where she is taking walks in
the open air every day. She is to
spend the Christmas holidays with the
other members Of the royal family at
Stockholm Later on she is going to
some place. on the Riviera, where the
climate is much more agreeable dur
ing the cold season
society has been organized in
Malmo for serving dinner every other
day to poor school children during the
cold season. - "
:.Fridtjuf Berg, the new minister OF
ecclesiastical affairs, is said to be the
first total abstainer that ever held
portfolio in the Swedish cabinet. He
is member of the Stockholm Teach
ers' Total Abstinence association.
The condition on which the 1900
mach1nlsts returned to work after the
great lockout was, that the employers
shall pay no attention to the unions
whatever.
The furniture, regalia, works of art,
ETC.. which King Oscar kept in the
royal palaces in Norway filed seven
freight cars. It is stated that a KRIS
tiania expressman became jealous OF
another driver whose load was said
to be worth $4,000: but he was in
formed that the load which he was
hauling himself was actually worth
about twice that amount.
Fridtuf Berg, the new minister Of
ecclesiastical affairs, has announced
his policy. He will look upon it as his
duty to reform the public schools and
the seminaries, for the work in those
institutions ought to be adapted more
closely to the needs of actual life A
proposition will also be made to the
riksdag to raise the. salaries Of the:
teachers in the public schools.