Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-05-09
SWEDEN.


two men took part in this race, and
! Svanberg. a Swede, was number two,
! running from Marathon to Athens,
| distance of about twenty (English)
miles, in two hours IS minutes and 20
! seconds. The winner was about seven
| mlnu1es ahead of SVanberg.
In an address which Premier Staff
| made before 800 distinguished men at
a banquet in Gothenburg he main
tanned that the great political issue
before the Swedish people at the pres
ent time is the general suffrage cues
ton, and the only proper way to dis
pose of this is to adopt the govern
| ment bill which gives every man OF
| the age of twenty-five years the right
| to vote for members of the second
! chamber of the riksdag He roasted,
| though in a refined manner, those who
are trying to block the passage of the
government bill.
Many new buildings, espe .ially barns
and granaries, are going to be put up
next summer on what is known as
South Plain Skane. This activity in
the building trade shows that the
farmers of the plain have been do
ing well.
The weather was very warm for the
season in southern Sweden during the
| middle of April, the temperature be-
Ing as high as IS degrees to 70 de-
grees Fahrenheit in the shade The
! spring work was at it's height about
! the middle of the month. Rain was
badly needed
| Replying to a question in the Riks-
dag with regard to the suffering of the
Lapland population in the north, the
minister Of the interior explained that
the starvation Of the reindeer herds
which was causing famine among the
| Lapps, was due more to immediate
climate conditions in the districts
where the reindeer We're pastured than
to the effects of the Karlstad conven-
ton, limiting the pasture rights of
these nomads. A hard frost following
| a partial thaW had covered the snow
with thick ice crust through which
| the reindeer We're unable to reach the
MOSES they feed on. TO save the rein
deer herds from starvation they had
| been driven across the frontier into
! Finland and Norway long before the
period fixed by treaty for these migra-
| lions, and had been consequently driv-
| en- back. under penalty of immediate
| conffscation. Legally this proceeding
| on the part of the local authorities is
| perfectly justified, but it has called
| forth articles in the Swedish press.
showing that the very existence of the
nOmadic Laplanders is threatened un-
less a better regulation Of their pas
toral conditions can be devised AS
the minister said in concluding his
statement their existence is absolute
1y dependent on the generosity of the
three nations within whose frontiers
their pasture lands lie.
! The program Of the Olympic games
at Athens for the forenoon OF April %
was given up to a remarkable aquatic
display at Phalerum, where the work
of the Swedish athletes in a series of
events, including diving, life saving
and water polo, excited the keenest
admiration Of the Greeks, who never
before had seen such clever dis
play. All Athens, headed by King
George and Queen Olga and the mem
bers Of the royal family was present.
| THE peoples house." that is. the
building Of the labor unions of Malrnc.
gave surplus of $1,000 for the past
year.
| Some of the leading boat clubs of
Sweden have united themselves into
a national association.
A Swedish mining company backed
by capital Of $750.000, has opened
irSn mines at Bogen, Evenes, Norway.
The company has acquired permission
to explore 80 (English) square miles
of territory About $1,000 has been
voted for plant for reducing the ore
number of Upsala students have
ispent nine days making geological re-
searches in SHANE
Four hundred cartridges and 200
pheasants from Austria and Germany
have been set free this spring in
Skane.
A petition in favor of woman's suf-
frage has been signed by 10000 wo-
men before the first of April.
A peaceful sailor on board the Skane
was attacked by a gang Of toughs
while making short trip ashore in a
Sicilian town, and he was so badly
cut with a knife that his life could
barely be saved. The men who carried
him to the hospital, the doctor that
treated him, and the druggist that fur
nished medicine charged such exorbi-
tant prices that the Swedish govern
ment may have to attend to the mat
ter.
Forest fires ragged in the Herrestad
mountain, near Uddevalla, for about
six hours in the afternoon: and when
they were checked by the fire depart
| mont ~ JId6oval1a thew had cwopt ava,
an area of 1000 acres.