Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-04-10

ing the warm season. For years past
the Laps have been in the habit Of
taxing their deer into Norway about
the hrst of May. and they claim that it
Will De impossible to move into Nor
way as late as June Is. The Swedish
government was made aware of this
ABOUT year ago, and negOtia tons
nave been entered into with the Nor
"eglan government for the purpose of
having the Karlstad treaty modified
on this point. So far no obstacles
nave been met with, and the Swedes
are IN hopes that the Norwegians will
meet the nomadic Lapps of Swedish
Norrland half way.
DENMARK.
A Danish inventor, Valdemar Paul.
sen, is perfecting a new wireless tele-
graph system which he claims will
make possible direct messages between
Europe and America. He declares
that IN the course of his experiments
ne has already communicated with
America. Mr.. Paulsen is keeping his
experiments secret because of rivalry
and to defeat the efforts Of a German
company to learn his principles. He
will tell this much. however, that his
system is based on "singing' electric
waves. which he says have absolutely
1nexhaustible power, and carry the
energy around the world 1t is then
for this reason a great Improvement
on the spark telegraph system, which
loses energy over long distances. Mr.
Paulsen has erected a station at Lying
by. a small town five miles north OF
In q few weeks he
hopes to have station in Canada and
he will then commence regular COM
across the Atlantic: He
commenced his experiments over "a
distance Of forty miles. This he in
creased to 100 miles, and again to 3SC
and 760 miles, with success every time
Now, he declares, he has communi.
Gated satisfactorily over distance
even greater than that between Den
mark and America.
The London Times claimed. in 8
lengthy editorial. that Denmark, upor
the instigation Of Kaiser Wilhelm, il
contemplating the closing Of Oresun6
and the Belts to the navigation of the
clausum. Mr.. Billie. Danish minister
to England, sent letter to the Times
earnestly protesting against the state
nents of the paper. He says thai
there are so many real internationa
questions Of delicate and danger
Gus nature that there is no call fol
fictitious ones. Denmark is bound by
a treaty of 1857 to keep the passage
of the Baltic open free of charge, anl
no sane man in the kingdom of Den
mark has any idea of violating thi:
treaty. which course would be an ex'
ceedingly risky experiment.
Fourteen young Socialists were ac
cused Of having distributed anti mill
tary publications in the barracks o
Copenhagen, and one was sentenced
to a. term Of 80 days On bread an,
water, IL to ten days on bread AM
water, and one was exonerated.
FINLAND.
The final result of the general cleo
tions is not known at this writing
But it is known that 4O,059 votes wer
cast in Helsingfors, this was y pc
cent of the total vote. In some o
the rural towns as much as 95 per cen
Of the vote was cast. All men and wo
men of Fl years of age had a right t.
vote, and the whole number Of voter
In Finland was 100000.
SWEDEN
King Oscar moved to the "Salt Sea
Baths March 10.
About fifty moose were killed Il
SHANE last fall and winter.
A lot of German rabbits were .e
loose at Widskofte Skane, this spring
The crown princess of Sweden wa
to leave karlsruhe for Rome March Is
The Swedish government has Sc
aside $4,000 for advertising Swedis]
butter In England.
Li1nhamn, a suburb Of Malmo, ha
$500 inhabitants, and many citizen
are in favor of Incorporating it int
the latter.
c. C. Cederskog, master coope
in Gothenburg, Willed $4,000 to poo
worktngmen and workingmen's wild
ows in Uddevalla.
The people Of Hammenhog and vi
entity have surprised the neighborin
communities by raising about $500
for peoples high school in thei
midst.
The department Of the navy ha
ordered Is torpedoes from Whitehea
& Co., Fiume, at a cost of $4,000.
The second chamber Of the riksda
has requested the government to dra1
up a, report on the possibility of max
ing the state, the communes, the land
sting provincial legislatures) and tn
cooperative supply companies entire
ly independent Of the economical sup
port from the liquor traffic.
The liberal Union party has intro
duced general suffrage bill in tn
riksdag. It embodies the main fea
lures of the bill. which was prepare
by the Staff cabinet in 1906, an
which was the cause of the fall of tina
cabinet. This bill does not provid
for proportional representation a
does the bill prepared by the preser
cabinet.
Some members of the riksdag are
favor Of giving this years Nobel peae
prize " r.. "dVflnSky, anu olneiS
K. P. Arnoldson, the latter is support
ed chiefly by the Social Democrat
and the Radicals, while the Moderate
are backing Wavrinsky.
Many farmers in Albo, Skane, hay
ordered thousands Of forest trees eac
for planting this spring. In som
places the school children will tax
part in the work of planting the tree
The celebration of the 200th ami
versary of the birth of Lime, May 2
at the Upsala University, will be
national event. The day will also b
celebrated in London and Vienna.
The Social Democrats have ais
introduced q suffrage bill in the riks
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