The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-10-11
IN The SCANDINAVIAN NORTH
GLeanings of Important NeWs of Norway, Slveden
and Denmark, with Occasional Comments.
BY MARTIN w. ODLAND.
BY MARTIN w. oDLAND.

A new industry is to be organized
at Nora, with a capital stock of from
two to six million own The com
pany will own and operate saw mills.
farms and engage in other industrial
pursuits.
The new Strindberg theater in
Stockholm has decided to present no
less han seventeen of Strindberg's
plays, and the theatrical world il
anxious to know how the public will
take this big dose.
A writer in Dagens Nyheter, who
visited Inc jamestown exposition, does
not think very highly of the showing
made there in the naval demonstra-
ton, participated in by the powers. of
the Swedish armor-clad cruiser Fylgja.
Chiefs of the first and second diyis-
ions of the Swedish army, Major Gen
erals Matern and Uggla, have applied
to the government to ask the coming
rigsdag for a law forbidding the emf
grafton OF any men between II and
20 years Of age, with loss of inheri-
lance rights as a penalty and also for
severe laws against emigration agents.
Some time ago | mentioned the anx-
iety created in Lulea, one of the sea-
ports of Sweden, by the mysterious
visit of a Russian torpedo boat, which
acted rather s~uspiciously, as If it were
spying. Later there have been other
suspicious incidents, and the officers
in charge of all Notifications are more
vigilant than ever in guarding against
spies.
There is to be a tourists exposition
at st. Petersburg and Sweden will
participate, Col. Bale having visited
the Russian capital to make the nec-
essary preliminary arrangements. In
this connection it may be stated that
a plan is being considered to establish
a permanent tourist and athletic
museum at Stockholm, with a hall and
a park in connection for the holding Of
expositions and athletic carnivals.
Some of the Swedish papers are not
enthusiastic over the visit Of Prince
Wilhelm to America. They hold that
nothing of value to Sweden will result
from it, as he did not visit the Swed-
ish-American centers and come in
coontact with Swedish immigrants,
and it was those people he should
have seen in order to influence them
to return to their fatherland. Instead,
he went no farther than the Atlantic
seaboard, where there are but few
Swedes.
The time for the lobster fishing
having arrived, the Swedish govern
ment has dispatched ships to the
Grisebaaerne to send boats in among
the rocks in the Skagerack, there to
keep watch upon the Norwegian fish
ermen and prevent them from ap-
preaching too nea Swedish territory.
The Norwegian authorities have taken
no corresponding action, in the hope
that the question, which is one of the
few problems surviving the separation,
would shortly be submitted to arbitra-
ton.
A dispatch from Stockholm says:
THE thirty-fifth anniversary of the
accession OF Oscar III. vas joyously
celebrated throughout Sweden. All
stores and banking institutions were
closed and the streets of Stockholm
were mt mass of bunting and flags.
During the day messages of Congrat-
ulation from all the rulers of Europe
We're presented at the palace by the
members of the diplomatic corps.
king Oscar succeeded his brother,
King Charles XIV. Sept. IS, 1872, and
was crowned the following May. He
was born in Stockholm Jan. 81, 1929,
and was destined for the navy. He
took the course in the university at
Upsala, where he was graduated doc
tor Of philosophy.
The people of Sweden claim that
not only is he the most learned king
to-day, but is the best-traveled man
amon the royal scions of Europe"