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

The city council Of Hudiksva1l has
resolved to divide a tract of land
known as Branslet into lots, to build
house for $1,700 on each lot, and to sell
the property on easy terms to people
who wish to procure homes of their
own.
A temporary commercial treaty has
been concluded between Sweden and
Russia. Both parties are to enjoy the
privileges of "the most favored nation"
The new peoples high school at
Ludvika, Dalarne, has become a reality,
and the first term will begin Nov. l.
The mere mention of the different
studies to be taken up will convince the
reader that it will be no ordinary
school: The Elementary Forces of
Nature, The General History of Civili-
cation, the Social Problems, including
Housekeeping, Cooperative Enter
prises, Temperance, Hygiene, ETC.,
Home Making, Horticulture and Agri-
culture. Certain evenings are to be
devoted to music and literature, and
gymnastics, sports and games enter as
parts of the regular curriculum. The
general aim of the school is to offer
only the most practical and the most
enjoyable work that may tie required
of a peoples school,
A Swedish engineer named Frycklind
has invented a cheap method of turn
ing night soil into fertilizer which
can safely and easily be handled as an
article of trade. His method has been
tested in Stockholm and found to be
eminently satisfactory. The product
bot
Chile saltpeter contains only fifteen
per cent, and it goes by the name of
ammonium nitrate. AS to appearance
it is a fine powder which may be kept
in bags or barrels. A strong company
has been organized for turning the
night soil of the large cities Of Sweden
into ammonium nitrate and selling it
as q fertilizer the market value of it
being one-third of a cent per pound.
A deputation representing every Ian
(province) of the kingdom will be re-
ceived in audience by the king Sept II,
on which occasion a bill will be pre-
scented to him for the establishment OF
system of granting pensions to the
common people.
Representatives of the government
are inspecting the territory where it is
proposed to build the great INLAND
railway" through the central portion
Of northern Sweden.
After October first a train carrying
foodstuffs will be run every day each
way between Stockholm and Malmo.
The north going train will leave Malmo
at $50 p. m. and arrive at Stockholm
at 1:18 the next day. No goods will
be received or unloaded on the way
so that the train will stop Only to take
the necessary coal and water.
The people of Eskilstuna have dis
covered that after the recent enlarge
ment of their city it is about 1000
acres larger than Paris,
Many objects have been found in
an excavation where ST. Michaeps
Lund.
Rev: Nils Lindstrom, who has been
serving as a pastor in the Methodist
church for twenty-five years, has just
been ex-communicated because he gave
some lectures last winter in which he
denied the historical correctness of the
Bible story Of the creation of the world.
He also leans towards Darwin's theory
OF evolution. Rev. Lindstrom will lose
the contributions made by him to the
pension fund during his twenty-five
years. service.
Rich deposits Of ore have been dis
covered at Farge1anda, Dalsland. As
says have demonstrated that 1000
pounds Of ore contain 235 pounds. { Of
lead, 5 pounds of copper, S pounds Of
silver and some gold. ~" : 4 Il: s.. %: +.