Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-10-17

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+ II Albo, southern Sweden, the water
courses: are SO low thar the grlst mills
:can%be run only g few hours day.
#9a= Ole Jonsson, ID. fish dealer at Ham
Jmenhog, near *Simrishamn, ran thorn
into his hand The slight wound
caused blood poisoning and Mr.. Jons-
son died 1.-The .Simrishamn hospital.
Is A great many pheasants manage to
get away. every year from the great
'spheasantries'' at Nasbyholn1, Skane.
When the birds are scattered on neigh
boring properties they may be shot
after Oct. L.: Hundreds Of these half
wild birds have been killed this sea-
SON. >' -:5'1"=
Speculation in stocks and other val
ues has been carried so far during the
past few Years that conservative BUSH
ness men are raising an earnest pro-
test against it. Fortunately, the press
Is on the alert against the evil. Says
| motidningen: This cancer in our
business life is spreading in all direc-
tons, manifesting itself as an eco
| nomical and social danger which calls
for the most powerful remedies unless
society is to be throttled in it's ten
tacles." Wort Land speaks as follows
on the same subject: For few
years past our business life has suf-
fered from a cancer which must be
cut away. Stock manipulations in diff
| ferent forms threaten all healthy bust
| ness endeavOrs. Instead of making
their money productive by means of
new enterprises in that European
country which offers the best natural
resources, many men only speculate
on the stock market" The Affairs
warden speaks in the same vein: ".Tne
speculation in stocks has been carried
so far as to become almost fever
It has degenerated into gambling Of
the most hazardous kind Persons
| often buy today in order to sell at a
profit tomorrow even without seeing
the papers in question We are aping,
on a small scale, the nnanipuators on
the exchanges of London, Paris ana
Berlin. But a day of reckoning is
bound to come, when the unfortunate
holders of the stocks will make the sad
discovery that the game is irreparaply
lost, that nobody will buy, but all want
| to sell at more and more ruinous rates
And then come the crash, the deluge.
with all it's nameess misery Let us
1
| themselves will drown; but the devas-
! tation will strike mainly the inexpe-
r1enced and the credulous. Nor viii
! the individuals be the only ones to
suffer. Our industries and commerce,
our whole social fabric will be seri-
ously injured, and it will take long
to repair the damage" The above ..x-
pressions show that brave efforts are
being made to stop the mad onrush
of the spectators before it is too late
- NORWAY.
Kristiania exported 100000 boxes of
condensed milk in one week.
The ice export has been very heavy
this fall, Germany and England be-
ing the best customers.
Those who are interested in the mill
tary defenses of Norway claim that the
navy must have one or more submarine
boats.
Snow fell in the mountains around
Trondhjem Sept %. and at Bodo the
snow was SO deep that the stock had
to be stalled.
/ A French syndicate proposes to build
and operate an immense pleasure re-
sortoin Kristiania.' The plan requires
that the city furnish a site free Of
tcharge, and that the whole establish
2,Fsment be turned over to the city after
| q certain number of years. The syn
dictate is willing to spend several mil
lion francs on the plant.
Mr.. o. Bjelland, bookkeeper in
Bergen, was knocked over board while
he was ON boatride. A friend of mis-
jumped into the water to save him,
and after a lengthy struggle he sue
ceeded in bringing him back into the
boat. But to the surprise of the
brave rescuer the man was already
dead by the time his body was safe
in the boat.
Arne Garborg has written a new
book; Jesus MeSsias." Only the pref
ace is known at this writing, and this
contains the following: "Only special
lists were supposed 10 explain the
Bible. I followed their explanation,
which, however, made me drop the
Bible. But ] thought: maybe l honor
those specialists too highly, and I talk
and read it on my own account. I
found connections in what formerly
seemed incredible to me: I found the
saga Uegend)> of Messiah, which
hereby present as I see it,
A committee appointed to effect the
/. organization of the Norsemen's union
is preparing a pamphlet on the history.
development and present condition OF
Norway, and an edition of 10000 cop
les will soon be distributed wherever
+ Norwegians are found in the different
parts of the world. Among the authors
of the pamphlet are Bjornson, /. E.
Sars. Wilhelm Krag and Einar Sundt.
| - Per Sagen was mistaken. for a
moose. while hunting in Gruveldal,
near Roros, and he was shot, the bull
let entering the chest, piercing a lung
and passing out near the backbone.
At first he had no idea that he was
hurt, and he walked to a doctor, a dis
tance Of three English) miles.
-Four fishermen, were lost at Ande-
Ines, Vesteraalen. and 1t is supposed
that they were drowned in storm
King Haakon, Queen Maud and
Crown Prince Olaf OF Norway arrived
u at Copenhagen Oct 4. This was their
first official visit abroad since the
kings coronation, and he was accord
i ed q magnificent reception by the in
habitants.e {, A crowd Of one hundred
thousand persons, Including many
! Norwegian Americans, lined the streets
from, the railroad station to the pal
ace.
Sixteen steamers belonging to bust
= mess men in n alesund have returned
from the Iceland fisheries: Each YES
sci had caught from !, 100 to 1890 bar