Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1908-03-05
SWEDEN.

The mint of Sweden turned out
$500, 900 in coins and $4,000 medals in
the year 1907.
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 $150,000 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 checkine'
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 a 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 a few days. It is claimed that the
whole number of copies Of text books
on Esperanto sold in Sweden Is at
least 100000. ..:
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 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 o.
Sweden was fifty years old IN l9Ob
At that date the wages were ralsee
along the whole line, and the ehange
] appeared in the accounts OF the rail-
way department the following year
I The receipts for 1907 we're about ont
million dollars greater than those O
the year 1906, but at the same time
the surplus turned into the nat1ona
treasury decreased $1,350,00O. TIT
state railways carried 100000 pas
sengers and about 10000, 900. carloads
of freight in 1907. The rolling stool
of the state railways consists Of go
locomotives, 1900 passenger cars ant
1880 freight cars. The number o
fatalities during the year was "a, ant
AT were injured. The reader shouls
bear in mind that these figures hav'
nothing to do with the private rail
/ ways Of Sweden, which are almost q
important as the government railWa!
system.
About $50 men are making livinl
BY fishing in the Baltic sea In tn
vicinity Of Stockholm. The returns ar
growing poorer from year to year, tn
value Of the combined catch OF tn
i year 1907 being only about $50. 0O0.s
/ King Gustaf is evidently bent o.
living . simple life. He invites som
one to dinner every day. but no NOR
than four courses are served at eacl
meal. .
4 The Ostsrgotland Beet Growers AZ
ISOLATION has resolved to sell bests Z
i - same price as the Danish -
i oreWsrs reoeive.