Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-01-02

tween them. Germany needs the in
valuable wealth of raw materials
possessed by Sweden, and the smaller
country would secure a strong posi-
ton through such an alliance. That
development of this kind may have
the effect at first of adding to the es-
arrangement of the Scandinavian coun-
tries is conceded, but it is believed
that in the future the sister nation
will see the necessity or following
Sweden, as it is argued that only
through Germany can Scandinavian
! unity be realized.
DENMARK.
The motor boats and the steam
| trawlers are crowding out the open
! row -boats and the sailing cutters from
the fishing grounds Of Iceland, and the
| latter are proving far more satisfac-
tory than the former. About $250,000
is said to have been invested in motor
boats during the past eighteen months.
In some instances the returns have
been so great that the boat has paid
its own cost twice in a, season of five
months, and the steam trawlers are
even more satisfactory. Those who
| manufacture motor boats and steam
trawlers are naturally just as much
interested in this industry as the fish,
ermen.
The United Steamship Company f
Denmark was 40 years old Dec. II.
| On that day a free dinner was given
| to all passengers on board the steam
ers belonging to the company. The
| company had only % ships with a ton
was to control the domestic shipping,
| in which it succeeded in a few years.
| Later it's field has been, and is still,
constantly expanding in foreign waters.
The capital stock of the company is
100000, and its feet consists Of 11S
ships, which have a combined tonnage
of more than 100000.
SWEDEN.
The school teachers temperance So
cieties of Sweden have organized
themselves into national association
The Politiken, a great Copenhagen
daily, thinks King Oscar was more en-
titled than President Roosevelt to the
Nobel peace prize.
About 100 Of the leading musicians
Of Stockholm recently held a meeting
for the purpose of organizing a union,
and a committee representing about
| twenty orchestras was elected to draft
a constitution and bylaws Another
committee was elected to call on the
minister Of finance and urge him to
| recommend a tax on foreign musicians
In view of the fact that the Upland
| infantry regiment is to be garrisoned
| at Upsala from and after the year
| 1908, the officers of that regiment have
| written a communication to the city
| council Of Upsala, suggesting that
| something be done to make it easy to
procure land and build homes in that
neighborhood.
! The foreign recipients of Nobel
! prizes who came to Stockholm to re-
ceive their prizes in person were treat
ed to an entertainment in the Stock
holm Idrottspark, the foremost sports
men Of Sweden giving performances
on horseback and skates, and also
demonstrating their skill at tennis.
The foreign guests enjoyed the per-
formances to the utmost.
Mrs. Anna B. Flensburg, who died
in 1877, on certain conditions donated
|
heirs contested her will, but they are
willing to make a compromise if the
city Of Malmo will accept about So
900 and relinquish all further claims.
1t seems likely that the city will accept
their offer.
It is proposed to construct a. tunnel
for two street railway tracks from
Kungsgatan to Sveavagen, Stockholm
The tunnel would pass under Norr-
MAIN, and would be Of great value to
the traffic between Stockholm and it's
suburbs. The entire length of the
tunnel would be about 1000 feet.
The thirty-year jubilee of the Stock
holm, Vasteras and Bergslagen rail-
way was celebrated Dec. H. The
wages Of the employees were raised in
1899. On the occasion Of the jubilee
the rates in force since 1899 were made
retroactive to the year 1877. This
meant a great deal to those who have
for long period, some Of them re-
800 to 5000.
The following bulletin was issued
Dec. % by the physicians in attend
ance on King Oscar: 1.-THE king
passed a. quiet day yesterday. His
temperature was 1913. He slept we'll
during the night. His majesty's tenn
perature this morning was 96.4. The
action Of his heart and the condition
of his lungs remain unchanged.
Isaack Hirsch, a Stockholm mer-
chant, in memory of his 45year jubilee
as a business man, donated 900 20
| the Stockholm seamens' home.
Wolves are numerous in Lappland
this winter and $50 reindeer have been
killed by them near the Finnish from
tier.
! The Swedish newspaper men still
show commendable moral firmness
| in resisting the craving for sensational
reading matter, the reports of crimes
being made as short and inconspicuous
as possible. The evil-doers are by no
means shielded, but only the main facts
are given.
Rev. G. T. Lundblad, of Trollhatta1
resigned as a member of the local lee
ture bureau because the bureau en-
gagged Ossian Nilsson, radical author,
to lecture on Shakespeare!
In 1907 the government will loan out
about 100000 from the fund for en-
abling workingmen to procure homes
OF their own. -s H.