Morris tribune., 1906-03-10
Recent Occurrences Of Interest
in Sweden, Norway and
Denmark.
MANY MEN ARE UNEMPLOYED
Labor Conditions in Norrland Badly
Upset Owing to Lack
of Snow.
SW EDEN.
Stockholm.

Lack of snow, says a Swedish cor
respondent, has greatly disturbed the
labor conditions III Nofrland, Sweden,
md thousands Of men are out Of en-
| .,loyment. Considerable timber has
been cut, but ii has been impossible to
get logs to the streams. In SandSvOall.
| Ljusne, HudikSvali and other places
the distress is very great The city of
Hudiksvall has contributed $4,000
crowns to the relief of the unemployed.
At least roo 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
I a considerable number of men are out
of work and the lockout in the iron
industries alone has thrown $50 men
on the streets. Complaints are also
heard at Gefe, where the completion
Of the harbor Improvements has made
many men idle.
Swedish I.apps. it is learned, are
greatly dissatisfied with the clause in
the Karlstad treaty prohibiting them
from migrating to Norway before
June Is. They argue that this date
is too late, rs the ice is out of the
| rivers and lakes and 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
long distance. Heretofore the Lapps
have come. 20 Norway about May l,
as the ice,is then still strong, but at
that time of the yemr there is no grass
on the mountains and The reindeer are
conducted in the valleys. where they
destroy the pastura ge for the cattle
and do other damage. There is some
talk of seeking to settle the difficulty
I by arbitration. which the Swedes main
| tain is provided fo- in the treaty.
A Finland correspondent writes: at
is not generally known that the
Swedes in Finland form large pr
portion in popula atiOn-there being
about 100000 in d total of 2,S90,000.
The SwedeS---Or more correctly Fin
landers-whose mother tongue is
Swedish-are mostly farmers or work
ers on the land. only 25 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, Georg Forsman. who died
as Kirjo Kiosk nen. OF the $50 news
papers published in Finland eighty -one
are printed in Swedish
Says the Aftonbladet (Stockholm):
american capital will develop the
coal fields of Spitzbergen in the near
future. A company with a capital of
$4,000 crowns and with headquarters
at Trondhjeln, Norway. and branch
| office at Stockholm has been formed
and Swedes and Norwegians are said
to have taken cne-scyenth of the stock.
| Mr. Munroe, an American mining engi-
neer, will take charge of the work
this season. It is not planned to mar
ket much coal before 1907. 1t is %es-
! timated that the fields will yield more
than 4OO,000,OO0 tors.
| Prince Wilhelm. second son of
! Crown Prince Gustaf. who is cruising
in the Mediterranean on ''Freja," re-
! ceived much attention in CONSTANT
nople during bis last visit there. The
sultan decorated the prince with the
grand cross CT the 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.
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 for
! draught purposes in Berlin.
A disarmament address" has been
! delivered to King Oscar by the Danish
! disarmament conference. This confer.
/ ence. which has SEQ members, has its
headquarters in Copenhagen.
! Sven Hed'n. tie asiatic explorer.
! has now arrived at Teheran. From
there he and his expedition will pro-
/ ceed to Seistan and from thence to
/ Thibet and India.
/ The cror-nprincess departed a few
DAYS, ago for Rome where she will re-
main for few weeks. She is due in
Paris about May !.