Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-11-22


Prince, Cary of Denmark their king.
was Prince Carl, which was accepted
as a public animation that the latter
will have the friendship Of the house
of Bernadotte in his new role as king
of Norway.
SWEDEN
The seals are very troublesome to
the fishermen along the coast Of SOUTH
ern Sweden this fall. They pull the
fish out of the nets and tear the nets.
The Swedes are enjoying their
gians did when the union work. was
cut out of it a few years ago.
1t is proposed to establish a Swed-
ish postal museum in connection with
the general postof11ce in Stockholm.
Six rooms in the postofiice building at
Lila Nygatau may be used for this
purpose. -.
The central society for social reform
has asked the authorities having
and about 700 reports have already
been received.
The late Rev. D. E. Boethius Of Or
sa belongs to family Of clergymen,
all of his male ancestors for three
hundred years past having been min
listers of the gospel. One Of his fore
fathers was the noted Dean Jacob
Boethius Of Mora, who was kept in
prison for thirteen years during the
reign of King Karl XII on account of
his frank sermon on the text: Woe
unto the country whose king is a
child!" He predicted disaster, and
Prof. S. J. Boethius of Upsala and
Dean Jacob Boethius of :Noberg are
brothers Of Rev. Boethius of Orsa.
The Stockholm super-phosphate
manufacturing company has foated
bonds for 100000. 1922.
The bookbinders of. Stockholm have
taken a step which is expected to OBJ
viate good deal of friction between
the employers and the employees. They
have agreed that when an .employe
leaves an office his employer shall
give him a certificate showing the
length Of time he has served, the par
ticular branch in which he has worked
and the wages that he has received.
Only those facts and nothing else shall
be stated in the certificate.
At Veberod, Skane, a farmer per-
mitted a number Of calves to run at
large on the commons during the
summer, and when he started to pick
them up and stable them they were
found to be so wild that he offered a
snug sum of money for the capture of
them. But it was of no use. His
calves kept roaming through the woods
as before, and in spell of disgust he
loaded his gun and shot down the
widest ones as ordinary game.
Consul August Schmitz, the owner
Of large woollen mills at Furnlund.
near Malmo, has opened a cooking
school in his town at his own expense,
and he is going to pay one-half Of
the salary of the teacher. The school
is to be open eight months each year,
and each scholar is to attend one day
q week. The attendance is large from
the very start. .-.,-.
The dairymen Of Sweden intend to
have something extra done for. the
Swedish butter trade. An agricultural
is to be held in Norrkoping,
and they propose to invite number
Of English newspaper correspondents
to come to Sweden on that occasion.
that the invitations will
not be accepted on account of travel
ing expenses, the dairymen will ask
the Swedish government to pay those
expenses. II the plan is carried out
the Englishmen are also expected to
visit number of standard dairies and
to attend butter tests to be made in
Gothenburg and Malmo.
Prof. Henschen recently expressed
doubts as to the efficacy of the sana-
toriums for consumptives, and the
matter had to be ventilated; King Os-
cars jubilee fund Of 100000 having
been sunk in the three leading sana-
forums of the kind. Upon investiga-
ton 1t was found that the leading
physicians of the country have en-
dorsed the work of those institutions.
1t Is stated that comparatively few pa
tients are wholly cured; but they all
learn to be careful in their habits so
that they do not transfer the conta-
gion to others. The physicians wish
that such sanatoriums were much
more numerous than they are.
1t IS proposed to remove the Stock
holm naval station to some other place.
II this is done the government may
sell real estate for $4,000, 900 in Stock
holm. s*zs@ s> CESS 1 ~.
The great machinists' strike has been
raised, and the men have returned to
work; but it will take some time be-
fore definite scale Of wages is agreed
upon. r. s#.zES@:'.5z 5=.,s.se5 ;s>. H..
Sweden is moving rather slowly in
establishing special commercial
treaty with Germany. though 1t Is adj
mitted that it will be highly necessary
after March l. 1906, at which date the
new German tarin laws will become
operative. .*: s.S:s ....s. ~
! The stone-masons' labor union Of
Stockholm has just celebrated the
425th anniversary Of its organization.
The employees at the Union sugar
factory in Hasslorp struck for higher
pay. They demanded IN increase from
& 4-5th cents to Z 4-6th cents an hour.
A few days later the employees offered
to pay Z IL cents an hour, and the
strikers went back to their work.
Captain Ernest Malmberg Of Upsa-
la has collected pictures 81 about 40.-
900 prominent men during the past
twenty years, ana the commercial val
ne Of the COLI ton 20 ootlmated at
$1,000. Capt. Malmberx nay cell II
s. the library of the. university q Up
sala.