Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-09-25

sen system. messages were success
fully exchanged between Berlin and
Cambridge.
SWEDEN.
The estate of the late Oscar Elk
man is valued at almost $6,000,000.
Over 80 per cent of the whiskey
distillers of Sweden have formed
trust.
Russian spies are said to have been
operating around the Notifications at
Boden.
The attendance at the summer
school at the university of Upsala
was over 600.
P. Won Moller, of Engelholm, has
donated $4,000 to the city of Lund
for the aid of the poor Of that city.
Duchess Maria Pavlovna, the fancee
of Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, is
a descendant of King Gustaf Vasa of
Sweden in q different ways.
The net proceeds of the "children's
day" in Stockholm was $4,000, which
as the name indicates, will go to
the support of poor children.
The leading organ of the Social
Democrats says that a strike must
not be managed in such a way that
the cows suffer because they are not
MIXED regularly.
Some inscriptions found on a stone
slab at Lampan, Vallentuna commune,
Stockholm Ian, have been carefully
studied and some of them date from
the fifteenth century before Christ.
About 100 soldiers at Solicited be-
haved contrary to the rules, and at
9:15 in the evening they were Or
dered out on a march as a punish
ment They were fully equipped and
marched twelve (English) miles
through rain and mud before they
stopped.
The dissenters' tax committee has
reported bill which proposes that a
reduction of the taxes to support the
state church of Sweden be granted
only to persons who formally belong
to some authorized foreign Christian
church or to a Jewish synagogue.
A monument of Swedish granite
was unveiled Sept. 1 at Altvanstadt,
Germany, in memory of the historical
fact that King Karl XII of Sweden,
while stopping at that place 200 years
ago, compelled the kaiser to obey the
Westfalen treaty and to grant religious
liberty to the Professionals of Schlesien.
Numerous tokens of honor have
been conferred by the Germans upon
Swedes who contributed to the signal
success of the Swedish department
at the Berlin tourist and sporting ex-
position. Five persons were decorated
with orders of honor, and diplomas
were given to one hundred different
parties.
Miss Anna Belle is going to open
a dancing school in Stockholm on the
same plan as that of the one started
in Berlin by Miss Isadora Duncan, of
California. The scholars are to wear
tights and a tunic reaching to the
knees, and the legs and feet are to
be left bare. Over one hundred
ladies are said to have applied for
admission.
The agricultural department of the
state of New York has sent c.. ".
Johnson, Swede, to Sweden to in
duce Swedes to come to New York
and work on the farms of that state.
The Swedish government seems to
have taken steps to check the work
of Mr.. Johnson. It is stated that he
was sent out by the state of New
York contrary to the laws of the
United States.
The threshing machines began to
hum in southern Sweden during the
first week of September. This was
needed, for the granaries were empty
in most places. The rye crop yields
better returns than the farmers ex-
pected, and the grade is from fair to
good. The potatoes and the root
crops are below the average. The
sugar beets were poor during the sum-
mer, but they rallied somewhat later
in the season. The apple crop is poor
in most localities. Wild berries are
abundant. The plums are very late.
The hazel nut crop is a rich one.
An unusually large number of
members Of the first chamber of the
riksdag have resigned during the
past few months.
A strike has been started among
the farm laborers of southern Swe-
den. The immediate hardship caused
by this move was that the cows
could not be MIXED. Some farmers
sold part of their stock, the high
school students in some of the cities
f1ocked into the country to help milk
the cows, and many farmers who
had a little time to spare morning
and evening offered their services to
their richer neighbors. The press is
rather hard on the strikers because
the latter are so hard on the poor
COWS.
John Froberg, a manufacturer at
Finspong, has insured his life for
about 100000 in the Skandia, and
he is carrying large policies in many
other companies.
Owing to a partial failure of the
fruit crop the genealogical society of
Sweden has decided not to have the
proposed fruit exposition in Stock
holm.
The protest of the farmers against
the fall maneuvers did not accom-
plish anything, and the maneuvers
took place a few days ago in Bohns
Ian.
nils Holgerson's Wonderful Jour-