Willmar tribune., 1907-03-06
Observation-Disclosures
DENMARK

\. : DENMARK
% Ritzan's teregrap PIN agency bureau is
II years old.
Two young men of Horsens have in
vented a. contrivance for threading
sewing needles. -:
Inc Jaungyde poor house near Skan-
oeroorg,> was burnt down and an old
woman lost her life in the flames
"A number of prominent Danes have
started an agitation in favor Of laws
LOT preventing children from smoking
tobacco.
A free congregation at HJorrlng has
cought parcel Of ground for $4,000,
ana $4,000 will be expended for high
school house at this place.
SWEDEN.
Baron Erik Gustaf Bostrom is dead.
Inls man deserves more than passing
mention on account of the: part he
played In Swedish politics ll.imedlale-
" ne1ore the dissolution Of the union
90 sweden and Norway. Tie was born
IN le42 and was a nephew Of the Hc:ad
| philosopher OF the same name. A. The
age OF 2S years he Was eIected to y
seat IN the lanstinz, on provincial
legislature, and from that moment he
occupied Nigh positions of trust and
honor almost uninterruptedly, and at
| MS death he was chancellor Of the
universities of Sweden. AS premier,
Bestrom was the leading man IN
o"edlsh politics during the years 1891
lSOO and again from 1902 to April,
4Soo. During Bostrom's second term
baron Lagerheim, minister OF foreign
analrs,. represented Sweden in the ne
| gotiatfons with the Norwegian govern
ment which pointed strongly to a set
| tlement of the cont1 ovecsy between the
| Two countries by the establishment of
a separate consular service for Nor
| way. But when Premier Bos,rom an
nounced the conditions required by the
swedish, government the Norweglans
gave up the whole plan, and the dis
solution Of the union followed. The
election of Bostrom to the position Of
chancellor Of the universities was
conspicuous endorsement of his policy
by the leading men of Sweden.
OF the 1854 \cases brought before
the three royal courts OF Sweden in
1904 the Svea court tried 81 per cent,
the Gotta court 31N per cent. and the
Skane court 14A per cent. The diff
ference in the point of size is still
more striking, the Svea district COW
ering 80 per cent, the Gotta district IT
per cent. and the Skane district only
per cent of the area of Sweden. The
| SVea district covers all OF Northern
Sweden and it is proposed to organ
ize new district in Norrland, in
creasing the number Of royal courts
to four. But there are many Who ia
vor reapportionment without the ad-
d1tion of a new district.
The so-called chapter committee
has handed a significant report to the
kind, proposing that the chapters, or
| governments Of the different diocese
of the kingdom, be reorganized. The
new plan provides for five members,
| and the most important part of the
| whole report is that provision is made
| for member which is 10 be elected
| as a representative of the public
schools and other institutions OF learn
| ing within the diocese. This innoVa-
ton. is proposed in view or the fact
that a. large number of the teachers
| think the clergy have too much to say
in school matters.
| Sanatorium statistics. It will be re-
membered that King Oscar established
three sanatoriums for consumptives by
means Of the 100000 given to him
when he celebrated his twenty five
years jubilee as king of Sweden. On
February 1st there We're u men and
| Al women at the Halahult sanatorium,
| 81 men and 81 women at Osterasen
| and SO men and 63 women at Hesselby.
Twice as many persons suffering~from
| tuberculosis were entitled to treat
nent at these establishments but could
not be admitted for lack of room.
The Bjernarp estate, in the parishes
OF North Svalof and Kagerod, has been
divided up into small farms. The area
| of the estate was about 1000 acres, and
| the area of the new farms ranges from
to 60 acres. Over 20 of the small
| farms have been sold, some Of them
| to tenant farmers who rented the land
before the estate was parcelled out
Many new houses are in process OF
construction on the farms.
Many prominent men, including "a
members of the riksdag, have proposed
that X. P. Arnoldsson, "a Swedish ad-
vocate Of international peace, be
awarded the next Nobel peace prize
| Many Swedes rather dislike Arnolds-
son because he sided with the Nor
wegians on certain points during the
union conflict.
The London Standard is inclined to
believe that DR.. Sven Hedin, the
Swedish explorer of Central Asia, Is
going to succeed in proving that those
geographers are right who claim that
the worlds richest gold mines are in
Thibet, and that they have been
worked from time out OF. mind.
1t was stated that the Engleholm
shoe factory was closed for good be-
cause the wages demanded by the en-
ployes were too high. This result was
an unpleasant surprise to them, and
rather than be thrown out of work
they consented to stay on the terms Of
fered by the proprietors Of the factory
The schools had to be closed on ac-
count of diphtheria In East Tomarr
parish, Skane. In. some families all
the children were sick. ,>i .
Per Person, foreman at the Kiaby
distillery, was burnt to death in a fire
which also reduced the building tc
ashes. He left a wife and several chill
dren. The property was insured fol
SS,000.s x:s-ls. ..,s : ..,;:s,,>. II
4 Ystad, Skane, is the home of -four
men who fought in the Danish army in
the Danish German war Of 1S48-1S5o
Their ages range from IS to 50 years
So much live stock is imported from
Finland via Haporanda that It may
be necessary I'd build quarantine