Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-03-01
Recent Occurrences of Interest
in Sweden, Norway and
Denmark.
Is PRINCE EUGEN TO MARRY,
Dame Rumor Says He Is. and That
His Choice IL Not a Prin-
cess, Either.
SWEDEN.
stockholm.

about Prince Eugen. According tC
"Kobenhay's" Stockholm correspondent
he Is soon to get married and that not
TO a princess. 1t is said to have IN
terfered very seriously with the
queens winter program and there is
much worry in royal circles at the
Swedish capital. The Danish paper
speaks OF the "red prince" las he is
popularity known as one of Sweden's
greatest landscape painters and as "a
democratic prince who looks so for
eign and so uncertain in an officers
uniform" and who feels best at home
when among his artist friends and
comrades. He Is a born artist. con-
tinues the correspondent. and is a staid
bachelor. who never did have any in
terest whatsoever in military finesse
and far less in any princess. although
he has time and again been sent
abroad to take a look at some royal
beauty at the various foreign courts.
1t is now claimed that Prince Eugen
is virtually in love and that with a
girl-presumably an artist from the
common ranks. Both the prince anu
his lady friend are in Paris at pres
ent. 1t is reported hat she Is a dis.
tant relative of S~tockholm's leading
prima donnas. So much for the
Swedish Copenhagen correspondent.
At any rate time will tell.
Smuggling Is conducted on a large
ccala I'm IJiataniami apI Tn.paa cx,a-
den, from over the Finnish border,
a v a Scandinavian correspondent.
The smugglers have become so bold
that they conduct their work as OPEN
ly as legitimate tradesmen and defy
the custom house officials. They form
large caravans and drive over the bor-
der right before the eyes of the Of
ficials and If these make any attempt
to interfere, n dozen guns are raised
in a twinkling. at which the officials
find 1t very prudent TO retire. The
drivers and guards are masked to pre-
vent their detection In the future. One
caravan consisted of eleven sledges
and twenty mounted men. The work
has become so profitable that many
hitherto respectable persons have en-
gagged in the traffic. One lot of goods
taken over the frontier included 1900
Kilograms of tobacco and cigarettes,
on which the duty Is particularly high.
There is a movement on foot by the
Swedish government to establish a
permanent waterpower commission for
the development Of the numerous
waterfalls in the crown lands. A
preliminary survey shows that the
state controls no less than thirty-two
falls OF considerable size, which at
low water are estimated to yield at
least 100000 horsepower. With such
vast for motive power going
to waste every day. the authorities
have awakened to the realization that
1t Is high time that the government
took the lead in the encouragement Of
Industrial activity. That the re-
sources OF Sweden are only developed
TO a limited extent has been known IN
a general way for a long time, but no
estimate has been made until recent
ly. If the work is begun and pushed
with vigor an era Of increased pros
perity will dawn for Sweden.
Sigurd r. Sigurdh. the author, died
In Stockholm. January 81. after only
a couple of days Illness. He suffered
from an acute attack of influence
which finally turned into Inflammation
Of the lungs, thus causing his death.
Sigurdh was born in Skane I'm 1874
and was graduated from Lund uni
versity. He soon become prominent
ac IN fn,noIfcf md r al. xr.to
a novel entitled '.The Yellow House."
which brought him prominently be-
fore the public. He was only 81
years old and was one of the country's
most promising writer's. Prior to his
sudden demise he was hard at work
on a novel entitled "Such Is Life"
Then death suddenly interfered.
Finance Minister Biesert has been
severely criticised for his clumsy way
Of introducing the question Of increas-
ing the royal apanage before the riks-
dag and 1t Is rumored now that he
will be asked to resign unless he
takes on a different attitude. Every
thing is being done In royal circles to
have this delicate but highly i'm
portant matter adjusted as speedily as
possible. Should Biesert retain his
stubborn stand II Is likely that anoth-
er cabinet crisis will follow.
1t is announced that the duchess of
~Connaught. now travelling in South
Africa, will arrive in Sweden next
month on a visit to her daughter,
Princess Margaret. 1t Is likely that
the duchess will spend much Of her
time In Stockholm, as she is much at
tached to her daughter.
Salschow, the Stockholm skater,
won a brilliant victory In his recent
race with Herr, the Austrian skater,
who Is considered one Of Europe's
crack skaters and who has previously
held the European championship rec
ord.
Queen Sofia. who for twenty-five
years has not paid q visit to Paris.