Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-06-20
SWEDEN.

tor collecting money for poor children,
Melted $4,000 in. Copenhagen.
SWEDEN.
The reader of these columns is en-
titled to clear-cut exposition of the
reason for the fall Of the Staff cabin
et At the last election it was known
that the government was preparing
universal suffrage bill for the election
of members Of the second chamber of
the riksdag. The main features of the
government bill were also known by
the voters. The sentiment of the vo-
tiers was obvious, for the second cham
Der passed the bill by handsome ma
jority. The first chamber voted down
this bill, but favored bill providing
for proportional representation. "All
right said Premier Staaf, "let US find
out whether the people want the first
chamber bill: dissolve the second
chamber and elect a new second cham
Der. The people have had no chance to
give their opinion on the first chamber
BILL The first chamber opposed this
course, and the King refused to dis
solve the second cha Slber on the plea
that it would not be fair to dissolve a
body that had passed the government
franchise bill. There are by no means
few who claim that the first chamber
does not even want it's own bill to be-
come law. The chances are that if
a new second chamber had been elect
ed it would have been stronger than
the present one in favor of the govern
ment bill. 1t would seem that those
are right who maintain that the King
is led by the first chamber, and not by
the demands of the people.
There were 359 leases Of tuberculosis
in the Swedish army in 1904, and the
number dropped to 1913 in 1905. But
in the navy the number of cases in
creased from II to 80 during the same
time. A committee which has made
inquiry into the matter thinks it will
be necessary to build canitoriums for
consumptives in the army and navy.
The inn at Schwedenstein, near Lut-
zen, Germany, where King Gustaf
Adolf fell in battle, will be removed,
and in it's place a Gustaf Adolph men,
orial chapel will be put up. All the
expenses will be paid by Oscar Elk
man, a rich Swede. He will also pay
$500 year for taking care Of it. A
board Of trustees, who must be Evan
gelical Christians, shall have control
of it as long as time lasts
A meeting held at Visby passed a
resolution protesting against the anti
religious agitation and the continued
propaganda Of socialism,
The Swedish peace association has
resolved to raise a fund for the estab-
lishment of a peace institute in SWe-
den The Worlds peace union was in
vited to hold its next convention in
Sweden. Rev. Frick-Meyer of Malmo
was elected to represent the Swedish
peace association at the worlds peace
convention in Milan.
The steamer AYES from Cafe collided
with a Dutch steamer off Trelleborg,
and a few minutes later it went to the
bottom. All ON board were saved. The
AYES was carrying 1850 tons of coal
from Sunderland to SuIdsvall. The &C.
cident was due to the carelessness OF
the commander of the Dutch steamer
twenty-five Galatians were hired tc
work on the construction of the Malmo
electric street railway. But the labor
unions started such a vigorous agita-
ton against this innovation on the
Swedish labor market that the con-
tractor was glad to get rid Of his Ga
liZians on short notice.
About $4,000 will be spent this sum-
mer for draining the adjacent land
by lowering the level of Kar1sbak creek
in the parishes Of Hammenhog, Borr-
by and Horup, Skane.
Many farmers in Aasbo, Skane
raised young geese last spring. Now
it is found that they were wiser than
their neighbors, for their neighbors are
glad to get their goslings for about &C
cents apiece when they are a month
old.
About sixty rods of the track of the
Harnosand and Solicited railway al
Cd, a short distance north of Kran-
fors, was washed out, and it will take
about a month to repair the damage
The track at this particular point was
built between a steep rock and the
Angerman river.
The Halland sugar manufacturing
COAApdAy "co VI Sc1IlAACu DIT
with a subscribed capital stock O
100000. About 1900 acres of land will
be put to beets the first season. Thi
| will be the twenty-second sugar fac
tory in Sweden.
Thousands Of people took part in ;
demonstration at Stockholm, in homo
of the Staff ministry, which retired
few days ago.
Men, women and children are nov
wedding the sugar beet fields of Skan
the whole day long. The beets lool
very promising for the season. Th
| people engaged in this work make
from 25 to SIS cents day.
The Gothenborg Handles tidning, on
| Of the best of Swedish newspapers
| predicts that the new premier, Lind
| man, will be the best premier appoint
ed at the command Of the first cham
Der of the riksdag. Most of the grea
papers find but little comfort in tn
new situation, but some Of them tax
! the other side, maintaining that tn
! fallen cabinet was wrong and ought t
| go. There is growing interest amon
the people because the old cabine
failed to swing the first chamber il
favor of the government genera
franchise bill.
l. Over 1900 Galatians are employed a
laborers in southern. Sweden this sum