Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-25
SWEDEN.

Two young Swedish engineers named
Scnenstroem and Forgelius have start
ed on an expedition into the interior
OF Peru, the government of which has
granted them $3.50. The party intends
to search for pass over the Andes
through which the railway planned to
connect the Amazon river with the Pa
cihc ocean can be laid. Three Peruvian
expeditions have searched in vain for
such a pass. The two Swedish engi-
neers will be accompanied by 20 In
dams. ~: ..
Prof. r. KjelIen, conservative poll
t1clan, believes that the Swedish body
polite needs young, fresh blood, and
that this acquisition can be made only
by granting the .workingmen the right
t0svote. The change is needed, he says,
because the present: rulers Of the coun-
try are getting dull, or even tired"
The losses of. reindeer which the
Laps Of Juckasjarvi parish have SUI
fered may be made clear by a. few fig
ures. About $50 families, numbering
$50 persons, live by means of keeping
reindeer and last fall they had over
10000: animals. The weather was so
exceptionally. bad last winter that over
10000 of them have starved to death,
and of this years calves scarcely a. sin
gAolaess is alive. One Lapps lost IS
aHfmals in. one day, and d two hours
snow-storm covered up every trace of
the devastation. At last the Lapps are
endeavoring only to save the draft ami
mails, the others being left to cope with
death as best they can.
The Ojaby church, Smaland, was
burned down, only the outer walls re-
naming. Ten years ago the church
was struck by lightning, and a large
amount of money was spent for repair
ing the damage done by the water used
In putting out the fire. The church
was one Of the oldest in Sweden. An
insurance of $4,000 covers only small
part Of the loss.
It is proposed to make thorough and
expensive repairs Of the cathedral OF
Lund.
The riksdag voted about $4,000 for
the. purchase Of building for the
Swedish legation in Kristiania.
Of the AIS members of the Swedish
editorial association, about so have re-
ceived some philosophical degree, the
number Of doctors of philosophy being
10.
Many years ago a young couple
bought small timber farm on credit
in Munka Ljungby parish, and set
tied on it. One child after another came
and no amount of work could reduce
the debt. Then the woman resolutely
started for America, leaving her hus-
band and three children to shift for
themselves. Seven years later she re-
turned home, paying all debts and still
having a little left for a rainy day.
The statistical bureau of Sweden has
made some interesting calculations
with regard to the density of the popu-
lation of different parts Of Sweden
Malmohus Ian is more densely popu-
lated than Switzerland, but less dense
ly than Prussia. Gothenburg-Bo
Ian is almost as densely peopled as
Austria Hungary. Curiously enough
the density Of the population Of Swe-
den as a whole is the same as that
Of the whole earth. It is greater than
that of Norway aid Finland, but much
smaller than that Of Denmark. If the
southern portion Of Sweden is left out
of the account the density is about the
same in Sweden, Norway and Finland
Even the southern portion Of Sweden is
less densely peopled than Denmark.
An Esperanto society has been or
ganized in Malmo for studying the arti-
fetal language after which the society
is named.
The capital stock of the Stockholm
Enskilda bank has been raised from
81, 100000 to $4,000, 900, and the reserve
fund now amounts to $2.700,000.
A court-martial has exonerated the
pilots who were accused Of being re-
sponsible for the grounding of some
German warships at Dalaro last sum-
mer. $780,.
A military balloon which ascended
at Berlin, Germany, landed in q forest
at Mastad, about 20 miles from Karls-
krona. The balloon almost touched the
water in the Baltic sea, and the two
aeronauts had to cut the car loose and
cling to the ropes until they reached
dry land. :@>%s s.5:s! 5' y + .'-*~ =,
The police authorities Of Lund ar
rested 80 gypsies who came from Ger
many. But as the city authorities had
no funds that could be used for pay
ing for the transportation OF the gang
across the Baltic they had to be taken
care OF until the provincial government
had time to dispose OF the undesirable
guests The women were permitted to
walk around in the city, but the men
were kept under constant surveillance
by the police. zs5s
5 Mr.SJ Kennel OF Rabelof, has pur--
chased the Il ossebro water falls; In
elge#riyer, and 81 Is proposed to build
ro-electr e. power stat Ion. for