Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-05-23
SWEDEN.

King Oscar passed through Paris a
few days ago. and President Fallieres
invited MIN to dinner.
A permanent exposition for the pro-
lection of laborers'' was opened in
Stockholm May 20 by Prince Engen.
About 800 journeymen tailors went
on strike in Gothenburg because their
employers would not agree to a new
scale Of wages proposed by the en-
ployes.
A riksdag committee proposes a gen.
eral revision Of the zone rate sys-
tenn of the government railroads. This
system has been source of vexation
and profanity from the very start.
Both houses of the riksdag have
passed a bill which very materially
curtails the right of corporations to
buy timber land in northern Sweden
1t is generally admitted that the lum-
bering companies have been gobbling
up too much of the land of that part
Of Sweden, but many who are familiar
with the situation are afraid that the
new law will not be an effective reme-
dy for the evil.
The number of dispatches sent by
wire in Sweden during the past year
was 2,921,337, which was an increase
of 166,920 as compared with the previ-
Gus year.
1t will be remembered that an elab-
crate bill was prepared by the gov
eminent for granting all men of the
age of twenty-five years the right to
mn If no
Der of the riksdag. At this writing the
bill seems to have Il poor show. The
committee on constitutional amend
ments, by a vote Of IL to 8, resolved to
report for adoption bill which was
framed by Herr Peterson Paboda
The main feature of this bill is that the
members of both chambers of the riks-
dag shall be elected on the basis of
proportional representation, while the
government bill provided only for tina
election of members of the second
chambers, the candidate receiving the
largest number Of votes to be elected
IN every instance. The government bill
will of course be introduced in the
riksdag anyway.
Oscarshamn has just celebrated it's
semi jubilee as city. About
1000 persons paraded the streets. lee
lures were given in the churches and
schools. and 800 poor people were in
vited to a fine dinner at the Alphyddan
restaurant. The local newspaper is
sued a fine illustrated edition, giving
the history of the city in words and
pictures.
The government has found it. neces-
sary to open school at Stockholm for
persons who intend to represent the
government as inspectors at the tWen-
ty or more sugar factories in south
ern Sweden. Those inspectors test the
sugar and see that the tax is paid on
every pound of sugar leaving the fac
tories.
Otto Witt, an engineer at Falun, has
invented a new method of extracting
the metal from the ore by mechanical
means. The method has been patented
in all countries, and the inventor has
sold his rights to The Humboldt Iron
Works at Kalk, near Koln, Germany.
A number of parents sent petition
last year to the department of public
instruction, asking for a revision of
the religious instruction in the public
schools. That department referred the
matter to special committee, which
has just reported, recommending that
nothing be done for the time being
Viceroy Tuan Fang of China, who
has been making military studies in
Sweden, expressed himself in enthusi-
astic terms about the movements OF the
mounted body guard Of the king of
Sweden. -: q. T.. ..-@,.
The national government has loaned
$4,000 to certain communes at Hyllinge
and Bysarp for draining wet land. w. t
Fifteen hundred students from the
Upsala university. went to Stockholm
on special trains and, gathering out
side the palace Of Justice, held a dem
onstration. Resolutions" were passed
thanking Premier Karl Staaf. for his
stand on the general suffrage question,
which is the serious problem of the day
before the riksdag. The students were
reinforced by a crowd Of 10000 persons
from Stockholm. Premier Staaf made
g speech expressing the hope that the
riksdag would accept his bill giving the
right to vote to every citizen. %3 '#s.s
Herr Svanberg, who was number two
at the Marathon race, received as his
prize a silly 81 i, which was a gift