Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1906-03-10
Recent Occurrences of interest
in Sweden, Norway and
Denmark.
MANY MEN ARE UNEMPLOYED
Labor Conditions iii NOrrIand Badly
Upset Owing to Lack
of Snow.
SWEDEN.



Lack of snow, says Swedish cor
respondent, has greatly disturbed the
labor conditions i'll Norrland, Sweden
md thousands of men are out Of EN-,
.,loyment. Considerable timber has
been cut, but il has been impossible to
get logs to the streams. In Sandsyoall
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 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
"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 I4apps. 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
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
a long distance. Heretofore the Lapps
have come 10 Norway about May l,
as the ice is then still strong, but at
that time of the yei:r there is no grass
on the mountains and the reindeer are
conducted in the valleys. where they
destroy the Dastura ge 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 fo- in the treaty.
A Finland correspondent writes: ut
is not generally known that the
Swedes in Finland form large PR
about 100000 in a total Of 2.S9O,O00
The Swedes--or more correctly Fin
landers-whose mother tongue is
Swedish-are mostly farmers or work
ers on the land. only Is per cent. of
them inhabiting towns. During the
craze known as 'Fenivomania' many
Swedes changed their Swedish family
names for Finnish ones, like their ma
tional, hero, GeOrg Forsman, who died
as Kirjo Koskinen. 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 capital Of
100000 crowns and with headquarters
at Trondhjen, 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. 1t is not planned to mar
ket much coal before 1907. 1t Is es-
timated that the fields will yield more
than 4OO,OOO,OOO 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 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 Tonk0ping horse mar
kets and bought aIl the horses which |
were offered. The buyers explained
that all the animals we're wanted for
fraught purposes in Herlin.
A disarmament address" has been |
delivered to King Oscar 10y the Danish |
conference. This confer.
once. which has $40 members has its |
headquarters in Copenhagen.
Sven Hel'n tie hsiatic explorer. |
has now arrived nj Teheran. From |
there lie ana his expedition will pro- !
-e,i 10 c=-..=.s:: and from thence - |
Thibet and India. I
: .sT'lIe crov ilniri,ieeSs asrartea a few