Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-03-08
Recent Occurrences Of Interest
in Sweden, Norway and
Denmark.
MANY MEN ARE UNEMPLOYED
Labor Conditions i'm NorrIand Badly
Upset Owing To Lack
of Snow.
SWEDEN.
Stockholm.

Lack OF snow, says a Swedish cor
respondent, has greatly disturbed the
'abor conditions IN Norrland, sweden,
and thousands OF men are out of EN-
ployment. Considerable timber has
been cut, bus it has been impossible to
get logs TO the streams. In Sandsvoall,
Ljusne. Hudiksyall and other place.
the distress is very great. The city ~
Hudiksvall has contributed 1900
crowns to the relief OF the unemployed
At least 700 families are dependent
upon numbering operations at Ljusne.
The men declare they will emigrate
to America as soon as they can raise
the necessary means, as employment
Is to uncertain to warrant them re-
naming AT nome. Even In Stockholm
q considerable number of men are ont
Of work and the lockout in the iron
industries alone has thrown $50 men
on the streets. Complaints are also
heard at Gefc, where the completion
Of the harbor Improvements has made
many men idle.
Swedish Iapps. il Is learned. are
greatly dissatisfied with the clause In
the Karlstad treaty prohibiting them
from migrating to Norway before
June II. They argue that this date
is too late, rs the ice is out of the
rivers and lakes aud the march must
therefore be made overland. AS the
fields are then plowed and cultivated
the reindeer naturally cause damage,
for which Lapps must pay. Moreover,
the calves are then too young to travel
a long distance. Heretofore the Laps
have come 20 Norway about May 1,
as the ice Is then still strong, but nj
that time Of The year there Is no grass
on the mountains and .he reindeer are
conducted I'm the valleys. where they
destroy the p%asturage for the cattle
and do other damage. There Is some
talk Of seeking to settle the difficulty
by arbitration. which the Swedes main.
tain is provided for in the treaty.
A Finland correspondent writes: I'll
is not generally known that the
Swedes in Finland form a large pro.
portion in population-there being
about 100000 in n total Of 2,S90.000
The SwedeS-or more correctly Fin.
landers-whose mother tongue 4,
Swedish-are mostly farmers or work.
ers on the land, only % per cent. OF
them inhabiting towns. During the
craze known rs 'Fenivomania' many
Swedes changed their Swedish family
names for Finnish ones, like their ma.
tional hero. Ge0rg Forsman, who died
as Kirjo Koskinen. or the go news
papers published in Finland eighty-one
are printed In Swedish"
Says the A~ftonbladet (Stockholml:
american capital will develop the
coal fields OF Spitzbergen in the near
future. A company with a capital of
100000 crowns and with headquarters
Mt Trondhjem. Norway, and a branch
office at Stockholm has been formed
and Swedes and N~orwegians are said
to have taken che-scventh Of the stock.
Mr.. Munroe, an American mining engi.
neer, will take charge OF the work
this season 1t is not planned to mar
ket much coal before 1907. II IS es-
timated that the fields will yield more
than 400,O00,OOO t"1 s.
Prince Wilhelm. second son Of
Crown Prince Gustaf. who is cruising
In the Mediterranean on "Freia." re.
ceived much attention i'm Constant.
nople during his last visit there. The
sultan decorated the prince with the
grand cross Cf tie order OF Osman.
while other officers received minor or
ders. There was an outbreak OF
typhus on board. which the quarantine
officials took charge Of.
Large numbers Of horses have been
sold In Sweden for transport to Ger
many. The purchases have been go
ing on for some time. but nevertheless,
a number Of German dealers attended
the Skofde and TonkOping horse mar
kets and bought all the horses which
were offered. The buyers explained
that all the animals were wanted fol-
draught purposes in Berlin.
A disarmament address has been
delivered to King Oscar by the Danish
disarmament conference. This confer.
ence. which has 500 members, has it.
headquarters in Copenhagen.
Sven Hed'n. tie As,atic explorer
has now arrived at Teheran. From
there he and his expedition will pro
coed to Seistan and from thence Il
Thibet and India.
The crownprincess departed a few
days ago for Rome. where she will re
main for a few weeks. She Is due In
Paris about May ].