Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-02-07
Recent Occurrences of Interest
in Sweden, Norway and
Denmark.
THE IRON INDUSTRY IN SWEDEN
Country Will Soon BE in a Position
To Successfully Compete with
the World.
SWEDEN.
Stock holm.


Says Hugo Vallentin. the Stockholm
correspondent of the Minneapolis
Journal: There is no doubt thar
Sweden is going forward with great
strides from a commercial and in
dustrial point of view. There is also
no doubt that Sweden has a great
future before it, especially in the iron
Industry. The III wealth of
minerals, especially iron, which is to
found in the north and which has been
made accessible through the overland
line. has up to now only been exported
In its raw state, but inventors are at
work and before long an economical
method of extracting the iron by cleo
tricity will be ready for use. With al
most unlimited w~aterpower in the
~cataracts that dot the country we have
the motive power for any amount of
electric machinery. Our state rail
ways have already completed a shOr
electric line which works admirably
and where runs of over 200 kilometers
per hour nearly 125 miles, have been
made. The plan for electrifying our
whole system of railways is already
made. What this will mean in the
way Of saving for a country that has
to import every ton of coal can easily
be imagined. With homemade cleo
tricity we will make the best steel in
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with all the world. But already be-
fore all this has been achieved, there
Is a great deal doing in the industrial
and commercial world. Values have
gone up and futures have been dis.
counted to an extent that is perhaps
not altogether salutary. Speculation
has been going on in many directions.
Fortunes have been made in a few
months without anybody's having
visibly been made any poorer. The
extent to which some shares have
risen is really remarkable"
The Boston waltz" is the name of
a new dance which has been intro
duced in Sweden lately and which has
become exceedingly popular. Nine.
Callmen, who claims to have intro
duced the dance. says that she learned
it from som foreign naval officers
who were paying Sweden a visit a
number of years ago. But this kind
of a dance proved too difficult to mas
ter so 1t was discarded. Princess In
geborg, who is an ardent enthusiast
in dancing, however, came to its res
c,n Oh infrnJ,,aAJ a. % ~, o.l ~
now is in popular demand. The Dos
ton" has this become an established
form of amusement in old Sweden.
Consul General Simon Sachs, one Of
Stockholm's most prominent business
men, died Jan. 8 after a very long and
painful illness. Mr.. Sachs was born
in 1889. Early in life he became con-
nected with Josef LEILA, who owns the
largest department store in Stockholm,
and married one of Mr.. Leia's daugh-
tiers, who died about two months ago.
In 1893 he was appointed consul gen.
eral for Sweden and Norway at Con-
stantinOple and served in this capacity
for five years. Consul Sach leaves a
large fortune and has on many oc-
casions given freely to institutions Of
charity in Stockholm.
Nine. Jungstedt, one Of the leading
~"stars" at the Royal Opera in Stock
holm, has, at the suggestion Of her
physicians, gone to Switzerland to take
care of her health, which has been fail
ing her rapidly for some time. 1t Is
feared that her lungs are affected.
Nine. Jungstedt rs one Of Sweden's
greatest if not the greatest prima DON
mas. She is the Nordica Of Sweden
and has appeared at Berlin and Paris.
where she acquired fame. Nine. Jung
stedt has cancelled all her engage
ments in Sweden.
Olaf Strandberg, a young singer,
made his debut at the Royal Opera a
few evenings ago and made a great hit
with the audience. He possesses a
fine voice and critics believe that in
him Sweden has secured a new "star,"
whose magnitude is in the ascendency.
His father has for many years been
connected with the Swedish stage.
The 4-year-old son of Mr.. Norman
Hutchinson, secretary to the Ameri-
can legation in Stockholm, died about
two weeks ago because of f~ridigness
Of the Swedish climate. The little fell
low was born In Venezuela and the
sudden change of climate was too
much for him.
III. l.. +. Lagerkrantz has been ap-
pointed minister of Sweden to the Uni
ted States. Mr.. Lagerkrantz Is well
known in diplomatic circles In Stock
holm and has for years been one Of
King Oscars closest advisers.
:. Elizabeth Henrietta Kellgren, wife
/ Of DR.. Arvid Kellgren. has inherited
/ 100000 crowns from her father, Carl
i. LETTER, who died In Switzerland,
Nov. II, 1896. MI. Letters fcrtune is
estimated at 100000 crowns
New Years greetings were less this
. year In Sweden than formerly. Last
year the Stockholm p~ostofice handled
10000 New Years cards, but this
: year there were only 100000 and
next year they will be less,
r. p. W~aldenstrom, the well known