Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-05-30

The Politiken has been trying hard
to find out who is the tallest man in
Denmark, and it seems to be Fris-
Hansen, a hardware dealer at Nykop-
ing, Sjal1and, who measur 6 feet 61h
inches in his socks.
SWEDEN.
The anti military agitation carried
ON among> the Swedish soldiers is so
persistent and provoking that the gov
eminent has felt in duty bound to
draw up bill for Gripping this treas
enable agitation" and the bill is al.
ready before the riksday. 1t provides,
that soldiers Of the army shall not
attend certain specified meetings. An
other bill, which was introduced in the
riksday at the same time. aims at a
very material restriction of the liberty
of the press. 1t is proposed that
person who neglects to give his name,
the date and the place on a document
published by him shall be punished
by Imprisonment for six months or
less; and that a printer who fails to
send a copy of any publication to the
minister of justice shall pay a fine
of $135,-not $3.50, the present fine
the extreme penalty proposed for this
offence being imprisonment for six
months. One paragraph of this bill
reads partly as follows: If a publ
cation which obviously aims at the
obliteration of the sense of duty to
the native country, Or at a stirring
up of hatred against the superiors, or
at some other way of undermining
military obedience, such publication
shall, whether it seems punishable Or
not, be ,confiscated."
King Oscar arrived at Wiesbaden
May 5, and he is stopping at Hotel
Nassanerhof for the purpose Of TAX
ing the water cure.
The profits Of the Sulitelma mining
company for the past year We're $780,
900.
The prices of cattle have risen con-
siderably after the grass in the pas
lures suffice to keep the stock alive.
A great number Of young men from
southern Sweden have left for Amer
lea. In many cases they had relatives
in America who induced them to go
west.
About 1900 deer were shot in south
ern Sweden last year, but the increase
was still larger. -.-,,''
A new disease is reducing what is
left of the reindeer of Norrland The
animal begins to raise it's head, which
is systematically pulled upwards and
backwards, and at last the neck and
the back are drawn up into a bow
SO that the animal falls to the ground
and dies.
The SWedes who took part in the
Olympic games made such a favora BILE
impression upon the Greeks that Swe-
ish gymnastics will be introduced very
extensively in Greece.
The beet growers of southern Swe-
den are offering about $50 an acre for
wedding their beet fields. This is
from three to four dollars per acre
more than they paid last year.
Wilhelm Carlson was one of the
four men who were killed by terrible
explosion which destroyed the dyna-
mite factory at Vinterviken, Stockholm,
All that could be found of his body
was one leg, and his body was sup
posed to have been thrown into the
bay, a distance of one hundred yards
A diver succeeded in finding the body,
which was not mutilated with the ex-
ception of, the absence of the leg which
had been found at the place Of the
explosion. All of the four men were
married and had children
One result of the magnificent show
ing made by the Swedes at the o.; NJ
pic games is, that institutes> for Swed-
ish gymnatics will be established at
Athens, Cairo, Alexandria, Port Said
and other places. Rostovitsch Bey,
president of the Hellenic colony in
Cairo, has donated $4,000 to this cause
and Mr.. Birkelas, a millionaire and the
reviver of the Olympic games, is an
enthusiastic and active adnlirer of
Swedish gymnastics. AS curiosity
it may also be mentioned that this
stir in the East has aroused somebody
in London. and Col. Balck, one of the
most noted Swedish authorities on the
subject, has been requested to give
two lectures Oh Swedish gymnastics at
the Royal Institute Of London.
About Twenty English Journalists are
going to spend two weeks in making a
tour of Sweden next summer.
The capacity of the Helsingborg cop
per works will soon be doubled, the fu-
ture output being estimated at 5000
tons Il year, which is about equal to
the entire home consumption. The
stockholders have declared a dividend
of seven per cent for the past year.
Immense quantities of roach have
been caught this spring in Kingston,
Skane. The price at the lake was only
about two cents a pound, and still a
part Of the fish had to be exported to
Germany.
The proprietors of the Malmo labor
hall have bought an adjoining proper
ty for $4,000, and the buildings will
be remodeled so as to accommodate
organizations for which there is no
room at the present time in the labor
hall.
L. 0. Smith, the Swedish million
aire "whiskey king" whose life has
been marred by family troubles, is ,iv-
ing in princely splendor at Nice,
Minister of Public instruction and
Ecclesiastical Affairs Fridtjuf Berg has
issued an ordinance to the public
school teachers of Sweden to the eff
feet that from the beginning of the
next school year the letters "dt'' pro-
nounced It," shall be replaced by It,"
and the letters "fv'' and "hv,' pro-
nounced ~" shall be replaced by w"
This spelling reform would seem very
practical; but many conservative men
find that it is so radical that it can
not be enforced. T.. '.,-.~>:. F..
About fifty mounds from the pre-
Christian era. have been discovered at
Emitslof, Skane.s In some of them were
. found urns containing burnt bones and