Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-01-03
SCANDINAVIA
z eft @
Recent Occurrences Of Interest
Sweden, Norway and
SEA SERPENT NEAR STOCKHOLM
snc Of the Highest Onfrisis o King
Oscars Court Declares He saw
the Remarkable Animal
SWEDEN.
Stockholm.

STOCK hbttn.
The following sea serpent story has
gained wide circulation among the up
per class OF people Of Stockholm says
Hugo Nailentin in one Of his recent
American letters: Although il -
rather late in the season. the q ser
pent was seen a few days ago at
Saltsiobalen, n seaside resort near
Stockholm. Victor Ancknrcrona. II
OF the highest officials at King Os'
ears court and the kings best per.
eonal friend, was walking out there
the other day with three other people
when suddenly a remarkable animal
rose out OF the water about 200 yards
from the shore. The animal had \
decidedly snakelike appearance. moved
with great speed and struck the specta-
tor. as being about twenty yards long
Mr.. Anckarcrona communicated this
experience, at one TO the press
and, Of course. a discussion of great
dimensions has been the result. The
men Of science pooh-poohed the affair
and said either II was some great seals
swimming in n line or n whale that
had strayed into the Baltic. But Mr..
Anckarcrona. who is n great sports
man and who has shot seals in his day
and knows their habits very well and
who may also have harpooned whales
I'm his day. says decidedly that 1t was
nothing of the kind. hut an animal OF
an unknown kind and q very great
size. The great head. which sometimes
was visible above the surface. reSem-
bled that OF n tortoise. That Mr..
Anckarcrona and his friends saw
something unusual is beyond doubt.
the only question is what. Now that
Mr.. Anckarcrona, who holds such a
high social position, has dared give
publicity to his experience, others. who
have been afraid OF the ridicule that
always follows In the wake of the sea
serpent. begin to add their experiences
10 his. 1t seems that In the last three
years this remarkable animal has been
seen nv different people at different
places In remote parts Of the Stock
holm archipelag 90. Both fishermen and
others have seen II and at n time II
nearly upset a boat and so frightened
the inhabitants on a small island that
they dared not go out fishing for sew
eral days"
All Sweden has during the past
month or so been startled at the
forgeries OF Count Fritz Won Rosen.
captain of the royal bodyguard and a
prominent figure in court circles. He
fas been arrested at Copenhagen on
a charge Of forgery and fraud and his
extradition to Stockholm has been all
provided for. The Rosen family has
played an important role in the history
OF Sweden during the last 200 years
and Is indebted for Its title Of count
to the fact that Gustav Frederick Won
Rosen saved the life OF King Charles
XII In the defense OF Strnlsund In
fT15. A Chicago Tribune cor.
respondent relates that the young
count, Fritz Won Rosen. Is a cousin Of
those counts Of Rosen who are so wen
known In America. especially In Phil.
adelphia and New York. as the grand
sons of the late Mrs. Bloomfield Moore
OF the Quaker city. Their father.
Count Gustav Rosen. grand chamber
lain OF the court OF Stockholm and
married TO Miss Ella Moore of Phil.
adelphia. Is the brother Of Count Fred
erick Thomas Won Rosen, father OF the
young nobleman now III Jail at Stock
holm. Count Fritz Rosen's troubles
are mainly due to extravaganza and to
gambling debts. and by rights he
should have forfeited his commission
some time ago for the nonpayment or
his gambling debts TO tle late Baron
Dickson. master OF the horse to the
king of Sweden. The count took adj
vantage of the baron's death to insist
that his pecuniary obligation to the
5aron were the result OF n loan instead
or losses at the card table. Having
exhausted every possible means OF
raising the wind the young count
seem to have ended by forging the
names OF relatives. friends and fellow
OiHttfS " DitS. Wuttu ne ul>cOuQIeU
and when confronted with discovery
Ned from the country. Instead Of maxi
Ing his way to America or even to
some remote portion Of Europe he was
foolish enough to content himself with
proceeding to Copenhagen, where he
was well known and where he took
mp his residence under his own name,
not at any Of the first class hotels, but
nj a fifth rate hosiery, where. Of
course. his presence attracted atten.
ticn. Tracked by the Swedish police
to the Danish capital he was found
there In the company Of . chorus girl
who had been the companion Of his
eight, and was taken back to Sweden,
where the Sensational trial win soon
Be held.
Bank Director L. Fraenckel. who
has Just returned from an extensive
trip IN the United States ana Canada
stated to a Stockholm Newspaper rep
rcsentative not long ago that a move
ment WINS On foot to build an Easi
Aslastic railway which would connect
Malmo. Sweden, with Port Said
yr~vn< ~ u INT nnAAlo~c "a eAa that