Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-04-11
NEWS FROM SCANDINAVIA
Principal Events That Have Trans
pired in the Old Countries
Within Week or So.

According to the treaty of Karl
stad, dated Oct. 26, 1905, the Lapps
Of Northern Sweden shall be permitted
to take their reindeer into Norway
June Is of each year, and keep them
on Norwegian feeding grounds dur
ing the warm season. For years past
the Laps have been in the habit Of
taking their deer into Norway about
the first of May, and they claim that it
will be impossible to move into Nor
way as late as June Is. The Swedish
government was made aware of this
about a year ago. and negotiations
have been entered into with the Nor
Wegian government for the purpose Of
having the Karlstad treaty modified
on this point. So far no obstacles
have been met with, and the Swedes
are in hopes that the Norwegians will
meet the nomadic Lapps of Swedish
Norrland half way
DENMARK.
A Danish inventor, Valdemar Paul
sen, is perfecting a new wireless tele-
graph system which he claims will
make possible direct messages between
Europe and America. He declares
that in the course of his experiments
he has already communicated with
America. Mr.. Paulsen is keeping his
experiments secret because of rivalry
and to defeat the efforts of German
company to learn his principles. He
will tell this much, however, that his
system is based on "singipg' electric
waves, which he says have absolutely
tnexhaustible power, and carry the
energy around the world. 1t is then
for this reason a great Improvement
on the spark telegraph system, which
loses energy over long distances. Mr..
Paulsen has erected a station at Lying
by, small town five miles north OF
Copenhagen. In few weeks he
hopes to have a station in Canada, and
he will then commence regular COM
munications across the Atlantic. He
commenced his experiments over a
distance Of forty miles. This he in
creased to 100 miles, and again to $50
and $50 miles, with success every time.
Now, he declares, no has communi-
Gated satisfactorily over a distance
even greater than that between Den
mark and America.
The London Times claimed, in a
lengthy editorial that Denmark, upon
the instigation Of Kaiser Wilhelm, is
contemplating the closing of Oresund
and the Belts to the navigation of the
world, making the Baltic sea a mare
clausum. Mr.. Billie, Danish minister
to England, sent Il letter to the Times,
earnestly protesting against the state
ments of the paper. He says that
there are so many real international
questions Of delicate and danger
Gus nature that there is no call for
fictitious ones. Denmark is bound by
a treaty Of 1857 to keep the passage
of the Baltic open free Of charge, and
no sane man in the kingdom of Den
mark has any idea Of violating this
treaty, which course would be an ex-
ceedingly risky experiment.
Fourteen young Socialists were &C
-cpsed Of having distributed anti-mili-
tary. publicat tons in the barracks Of
Copenhagen, and one was sentenced
to term Of 80 days on bread and
water, ~ to ten days on bread and
water, and one was exonerated.
FINLAND.
The final result Of the general cleo
lions is not known at this writing.
But it is known that 40,059 votes we're
cast in Helsingfors, this was ~ per
the rural towns as much as IS per cent
of the vote was cast. All men and Wo-
men of Fl years Of age had a right to
vote, and the whole number of voters
in Finland was 100000.
King Oscar moved to the salt Seat
Baths March 10.
About fifty moose were killed in
Skane last fall and winter.
A lot of German rabbits were lei
loose at Widskofte, Skane, this spring
The crown princess of Sweden was
to leave karlsruhe for Rome March 10
The Swedish government has sci
aside $4,000 for advertising Swedish
butter in England.
Ltmhamn, suburb Of Malmo has
$500 inhabitants, and many citizens
are in favor of Incorporating it into
the latter.
c. q. Cederskog, a master cooper
in Gothenburg, willed $4,000 to pool
workingmen and workingmen's wild.
ows in Uddevalla.
The people of Harnmenhog and vi.
entity have surprised the neighboring
communities by raising about $4,000
for a peoples high school in thei1
midst
Engineer R. Dahlander has an.
nounced that the government contem-
plates the building of electric power
stations for the government railways
at Ave different waterfalls. namely, al
Karsefors, Lago river; Trollhattan
Gotta river; Motala, Hammarby and
Alfkarle. All the government railroads
south of Bollans will be served from
these stations. The plants will cos
$16000,000 on the basis of the traffic
of 1906, and an increase Of so per cent
of the traffic would raise the cost t.
$20000,000. The annual expenses
would be $1,S8O,O00 and $1,745,00O. Tt
this must be added the cost of the
electric locomotives. The difference
between steam and electricity would
be $4,000 year in favor of the latter
and if so per cent we're added to the