Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-01-09
NEWS OF SCANDINAVIA
Recent Occurrences of interest
in Sweden, Norway and
Denmark.
LAST HOURS OF KING OSCAR
The Queen, Holding the Dy ing Mon
arch's Hand. Gives Him Re-
ligious Comfort
SWEDEN.
Stockholm.

Stockholm.
The last hours OF King Oscar have
been most pathetically described by nj
the Swedish papers. 1t is sad that
about 2 o'clock In the afternoon OF
Dec THE day before he died-the
king had opened his eyes and for a
few moments recognized all those
about him. Suddenly he exclaimed
quite audlbly: God bless you ALL"
The queen, who sat by his beds de
holding his hand in hers. replied:
"Yes, the Lord will guide your througl
His grace is greatr The king then
repeated: YES. his grace is great"
Queen Sofa bowed down and whis-
pered the following words into the dy-
ing monarchs ears: The blood OF
Jesus Christ cleanses us from all our
SINS King Oscar then ute ed the
words: THANK Jesusw These Were
his last words.
There was an unusually large num-
her of Swedish-Americans who re-
turned home for the holidays. A
Swedish paper has given their return
the following incorrect and mislead-
ing coloring: "Many Swedes who
were thrown out of work In Amer CT
few weeks ago have returned To
Sweden but it is not an easy matter
to obtain work In the old country this
time OF the year" Swedish-Ameri-
cans do not go to Sweden in search OF
employment. They go there to visit
their relatives and in nearly every in
stance they return to America.
Comprehensive experiments have
proved beyond doubt that it will pay
to use electricity on the state rail-
ways Of southern Sweden. The gov
eminent has been farsighted enough
to acquire waterfalls for motive pow
er. and the change from steam to cleo
tricity may be made sooner than orig
inally contemplated, because labor
may be had much cheaper now than a
few months ago.
Nine Maude Auckarsvard who mar
ried Coswa Auckarsvard, Swedish
minister to Constantinople, has, nc.
cording to recent reports, been made
countess by the pope in Rome. Nine.
Auckarsvard. who is an American by
birth. came to Stockholm about eight
years ago to visit Consul and Mrs.
Winslow and II was on that occasion
that she met and married Minister
Auckarsvard.
The government as well as the busi-
ness men are worried because foreign
lotteries draw so much money out OF
the country. Some one has proposed
that the sending of lottery tickets
through the mails be prohibited. but
Instead OF this certain prominent men
are in favor Of running government
lottery, so as to keep the money in the
country.
DIR. Munthe has recently made the
statement that Queen Victoria of Swe-
den is now very much improved In
health and that it may be possible for
her to remain through the winter. in
Stockholm. This will be the first win
ter In fifteen years that Queen Victoria
will spend in Sweden, having hereto
fore spent her winters in Italy.
A number Of Sweden's leading lum-
Der dealers gathered in Stockholm n
few days ago for the purpose of or
ganizlng a timber trust. They did or
ganiZe and agreed to reduce next
years production about IS per cent
and also to control the prices on lum-
Der.
The earthly remains OF King Oscar
were embaImed Dec. 8 by Professor
c. Sundberg. of the Karolinska Insti-
tute in the presence of Professors Berg
and Edgren and the kings doctor, DIR.
F'lensburg. Present were also Count
Ancarcrona and Count Won Rosen.
King Gustave has made one move
which pleases the Swedish people very
much. He has decided to made the
coronation festivities as inexpensive
as possible and proposes TO have q
sane celebration of that event.
Circumstances this year were favor
able to the holiday trade until the
lamented death Of King Oscar changed
the situation and caused the volume Of
Christmas business to fall far below
the usual mark.
King Oscar has written some ex'
eeedingly interesting memoirs, which
however. he gave explicit orders
should not be published before fifty
years after his death.
King Oscars private fortune Is es-
timated at 100000 crowns. It Is
believed that Is altogether too modest
M nv mn
would represent 1t closer.
Countess Casa de Miranda--Ch Christina
Nilsson-was the last person who was
granted an audience by King Oscar
The countess shortly afterwards de
parted for Paris.
John Forsells resignation from the
Royal Opera has not been accepted by
the managers and the great singer will
be compelled to fulfill his contract OF