Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1908-07-25
Recent Occurrences OF Interest
in Sweden, Norway and
Denmark.
THE SUGAR BEET INDUSTRY
Ten Thousand Men and Women work
ing In the Fields in the Southern
Part of Sweden.
SWEDEN.
Stockholm.

beet fields Of Skane. They are mostly
,Swedes Poles and Galicians, and a
large proportion Of them are women.
Their work consists of wedding and
hoeing the beets. Women and chill
dren make about IS cents a day, and II
ia estimated that $4,000 will be paid
out for hoeing and wedding. Up in the
northern section of the country hun
dreds of laborers from outside points
are being shipped to Gefe to take the
place of the strikers.
The Swedish coast squadron mas re
ceiyed orders to be present In STOCK
holm July q, on which occasion the
French president is scheduled to ar
rive i'm the Swedish capital. After the
French presidents visit is over, the
SQUADRON will continue its cruise IL
southern Swedish waters, but has beef
ordered to return to Stockholm Jul!
81. when the German emperor will be
royalty entertained at the royal palace
Emperor William, both when gong
and coming, will be escorted by twe
Swedish torpedo cruisers as long as NJ
Is in Swedish waters.
During the Olympian games in
| London Sweden will be represented ny
1856 athletes, among whom are stars OF
| the first magnitude in the world of
sport Sweden's famous long distance
| runner. Swanberg, who is the world :
champion. will be there to compete for
other honors. There will be jumpers,
discus throwers. swimmers, marksmen,
| fencers, oarsmen and even hammer
throwers. The Swedish athletes will
do their best to compete with the
American and English athletes this
year and they are determined to win.
Up in Elmhult there was an old
gentleman nicknamed "Maa Hakan,
| who died the other day, aged eighty
| five years. in what appeared to be the
greatest poverty. An investigation Of
! his affairs followed and it was then
| learned to the CONSERVATION Of the
neighborhood that he had property
valued at 10000 crowns. In one of his
coats he had sewn in not less than
! 1850 crowns. which it is believed he
carried for many years He always
! insisted on wearing this coat and
! would never part with it.
The Danish paper "Dannebrog'' has
| interviewed Minister Lagerkrantz, who
among other things stated that the req
son why he must return to Washing
| ton is that there Is lot Of hard work
left incompleted regarding the reor-
Ranization Of Sweden's representation
in Washington. which work cannot be
left haphaZard. Minister LagerkrantZ
! stated that he should have returned to
Washington about two months ago.
but that he was hindered from so do
ing by reason of King Gustaf's visit
to Copenha gen. :-.-.: o. ~. 81. :
The young crown prince is not in
the best of health and has been or
dered by his physicians to take re-
creation trip to England and the
Scottish highlands. where he can re-
ceive goodly portion Of mountain air.
The crown prince and crown princess
left Stockholm during the latter part
Of last month and they are now in
Scotland.
King Gustaf has appointed e. A.
Gunther as envoy to the Danish court
to succeed Minister Lagerkrantz. who
has temporarily been filing the place
As Swedish envoy to the court in
Christiania has been appointed G. NJ.
Falkenberg at Brussels. who in turn
will be- succeeded by the cabinet secre-
tary Count A. Ehrensvard.
Prince Kuni premier lieutenant in
the Japanese army. arrived in Stock
holm June %, where he spent about
week in sightseeing and also paid an
occasional visit to the Swedish court.
where of course. he was royalty re-
ceived, He was accompanied by Ma
ior Kurita and General Hakedan
The cigar dealers Of the country held
their convention in Stockholm recently
and passed a resolution protesting
against the sale of cigars at restau-
rants. They maintain that restaurant
keepers have no right to intrude on the
retail. cigar dealers and they propose
to put stop to it.
me bishops OF Sweden are allowed
to travel free of charge on the rail
ways running through their diocese.
For a while the railroads protested
against this, but the higher courts
have ruled that the bishops shall travef
free of charge.
The anxiety regarding DR.. Sven
Hedin is increasing and many are
those who believe that he is dead, The
British government has been requested
to make an active search for him dead
or alive.
DR.. Anton Nystrom. the founder and
for many years The president of the
Laborers' institute of Stockholm. has
retired and has been succeeded by Or.
Knut Kjellberg.
The Socialists do not like rife clubs
and registered their protest at thc,r
last national convention by passing a