Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1908-12-17


4 sousisnment Of III. 900 pounds Of
salmon from the AMOR river, Siberia,
was recently received IN Stockholm:
The state telegraph system Of.
swsden.carried 3,7so,31s messages In
1907, and the receipts were $1,000
600. .s8z
The government is not going 20
ask the riksdag this year for appro-
priations for new warcraft for the
navy.
Prof. Karl Bohlin, director Of the
Stockholm observatory, wants the
riksdag to vote $4,000 for q tele-
scope for his institution. +
A private company pays the gov
eminent $3.50 year for the privi-
lege Of serving meals on the dining
cars Of the state railways. y.
/ The expenditures OF the city of
Stockholm for the year 1907 were
about $16,2OO,O00 The city has a
debt of about $62,Oo0,0oO, but the
assets exceed this amount by $11,-
100000. 4...:-.z y ...., Il"
A large building is to be put up at
Stocksund, near Stockholm, for the
benefit of lovers of sport. It will be
adapted to both summer and winter
sports, and the promoters feel sure
that it will be utilized by Large num-
bers of city people at all seasons Of
the year. The locality is an ideal
one for an establishment Of that
kind. 49,. 4.
For a number Of years past the
smaller restaurants of Stockholm
have not been permitted to serve
whisky unless ordered in connection
with a regular meal, while the large
restaurants could serve whisky with
a small lunch. After Jan. first no
Stockholm eating-place will be per-
mitted to sell liquor except with reg
ular meals.
Paris.-Mrs. Ida Won Claussen,
whose failure to be presented at the
court of Sweden caused much inter-
est through the widely published &C.
counts she gave Of her wrongs and of
the refusal of the state department
and the president to interfere, has
now announced her vindication. She
was seen at the Hotel Marlborough
here. She said that she has not only
succeeded in meeting the king and
queen of Sweden when they were
here this week. but in receiving sig
nal marks of honor. She was per-
mitted to sit in conspicuous posi-
ton, and both the king and queen
bowed very graciously. She further
declared that her credentials on this
occasion consisted of the portrait of
the dead King Oscar, across which
he had written his name when he as
sured her during chance meeting at
Wiesbaden that 1t would prove a pass
port for her.
Capt. Roald Amundsen has stated
that the equipment for his next
North Pole expedition will cost about
$4,000. He may take as many as
ten men with him, but the number is
not to be less. A dispatch from San
Francisco states that Captain Henry
Lund, Norwegian consul at that port,
has received instructions from Cap
tain Amundsen to sell at auction the
sloop Gjoa in which Amundsen made
his famous voyage of discovery
through the northwest passage. The
sloop has been lying at anchor at
Mare Island navy yard ever since 1t
entered that port after that eventful
trip. Consul Lund, who is an init.
mate friend Of the explorer, is also
informed that the latter proposed to
undertake voyage in search of the
geographical north pole at some not
distant date, making the trip in the
steamer Fran, Captain Nansen's
ship, now the property of the gov
eminent of Norway Amundsen
states that he will outfit for the voy-
age in San Francisco, cruising to the
Siberian islands and thence into the
unknown waters Of the north in
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