Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-03-04
SWEDEN.

AS might be expected, the Swedish
press is firmly opposed to Russia S
proposition to be permitted to estab-
lish a military station on Aland island,
this island being within three hours
voyage of Stockholm.
Extensive preparations are being
made for celebrating the 250th ami
versary of the treaty of Roskilde, by
which the southern part of the Scan
dinavian peninsula was coded to
Sweden by Denmark.
Lake Takern, near Vadstena, is to
be drained. The commune will have
to issue bonds for $15O,0OO to defray
the expenses. BY this Improvement
about 10000 acres of lake bottom will
be reclaimed and made tillable. This
work has been delayed by litigations
for many years.
The National Society for checking
emigration has bought the Guttane
estate in Tveta parish, the land con.
sisting of 275 acres of fields and
meadows and $50 acres of timber.
The property is to be used as an ex-
detrimental station to demonstrate
what can be done in the line of farm.
ing on small scale.
Esperanto, the best known of the
artificial languages since the decad-
ence of Volapuk, has many devotees in
Sweden. Four editions of the best
text book on this subject have been
sold, and the fifth edition will be out
in few days. It is claimed that the
whole number of copies of text books
on Esperanto sold in Sweden is at
least 10000.
Tatis Person and Karl Johansson
of Bjellerup drove home from Lund
late in the evening. In going down
Raby hill the horses must have SHE'D,
for the horses, the wagon and the two
men were found in a ditch at the foot
of the hill. One of the men had been
pressed into the water so that he had
drowned, and the other man had been
so badly injured that he died shortly
after he was picked up. Both men
were single.
The government railway system. of
Sweden was fifty years old in 1906.
At that date the wages were raised
along the whole line, and the change
appeared in the accounts of the rail-
way department the following year.
The receipts for 1907 were about one
million dollars greater than those of
the year 1906, but at the same time
the surplus turned into the national
treasury decreased $1,350,000. The
state railways carried 100000 pas
sengers and about 20,000,000 carloads
of freight in 1907. The rolling stock
of the state railways consists of 500
locomotives, 1900 passenger cars and
1880 freight cars. The number OF
fatalities during the year was "a, and
447 were injured. The reader should
bear in mind that these figures have
nothing to do with the private rail-
ways of Sweden, which are almost as
important as the government railway
system.
About $50 men are making living
by fishing in the Baltic sea in the
vicinity of Stockholm. The returns are
growing poorer from year to year, the
value of the combined catch of the
year 1907 being only about $4,000.
King Gustaf is evidently bent on
living simple life. He invites some
one to dinner every day, but no more
than four courses are served at each
meal.
The Ostergotland Beet Growers As
ISOLATION has resolved to sell beets at
the same price as the Danish beet
growers receive.
The "homecroft' association Of Kris.
tianstad Ian has bought farm at
Vanneberga, Vanslof parish. for $685.
900, and the property is to be divided
up into about twenty small model
farms.
The Red Cross has received a dona-
ton of $1,000 from person who does
not want his name announced. The
money is to be used for fitting out g
hospital ship.
Prof. o. Uordenskjold lectured on
his South Pole expedition to select
audience In Berlin, and q banquet was
l1lven In his honor.