Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-11-10
SWEDEN.

SWEDEN.
Emigration from Sweden IS more
than twice 40 many this year as last
year.
Summer apples, pears, and plums
are cheaper in southern Sweden this
fall than they have been for many
years.
There were about 81, 900 unemployed
men in Sweden, Oct. Z. 1t is known
TINT thousands of them have returned
to work since that time.
Some of the leading manufacturers
of Sweden recently held a meeting in
Stockholm and decided to organize
national industrial union.
The Swedish telegraph department
has bought the Norwegian telephone
system OF Bohus Ian, the formal trans.
Ter to be made January first.
King Gustaf issued a fine address
Of thanks to the officers and soldiers
who were called upon to do special
service during the great strike.
The receipts of the government rail-
roads for the month Of August were
about $459,000 below those of the
same month last year. This tremen-
dous falling of was due chiefly to the
great strike.
From the beginning of the new year
every man serving in the army or
navy Of Sweden will be entitled to an
accident insurance Of about $4,000. It
makes no difference whether the man
is serving in peace or in war.
Gustaf Johansson, of Gothenburg,
has invented new milking machine.
It was on exhibition at farmers fair
at Vikboland, near Norrkoping, and
the farmers that had chance to see
it were much pleased with it.
The receipts of the government
from the customs, the liquor tax, the
sugar tax, the malt tax, and the rail-
ways aggregated $19,175,850 for the
first three quarters of this year, as
compared with $20,393,640 for the
first three quarters Of last year.
Stockholm, Oct. 25.-With view to
stemming the tide of emigration,
which threatens to deplete the coun-
try Of agricultural laborers, a nation.
al subscription has been started to
obtain funds for loans to laborers,
left unemployed after the recent big
strike. The loans are intended to en-
able the purchase of small farms and
will be made repayable within ten
years. The fund will be administered
by the anti-emigration society of Swe-
den.
Peat has been used by way of ex-
periments on the state railways of
Sweden since the beginning of the
year. The results are not encourag-
ing. But this is supposed to be due
to the unsuitable construction of the
locomotives for this kind of fuel. The
next step will be to devise q new type
Of locomotive for the use Of peat as
fuel. A complete report on this i'm
portant subject will be presented to
the government In the latter part of
December.
The determination of Russia to wipe
out the last vestiges of the independ.
ence OF Finland has called forth the
following editorial in a conservative
Swedish daily: what has happened
and is going to happen in Finland may
present great difficulties 70 our poll.
ticians, and maybe great dangers to
our country. May we, therefore, be
attentive, understand, and wait. Rus.
STA may be good friend or a danger.
GUS enemy. Finland, as such, can be
neither. It will be best for us to re-
ceive With open arms whatever Swe-
dish elements may leave Finland and
seek refuge with us, but to keep out
what N specifically Finnish"
An eighty-six-year-ol1 woman at
Rossjo. Vastergotland, has been in the
habit Of going to the woods to pick
lingol berries all alone this fall. One
evening she did not return home as
usual. The next morning a search
was made for her, and she was found
about two miles from home. She had
hurt her arm, but not seriously. She
had spent the night on a bed made of
heather.
The Stockholm art and Industrial
exposition gave a surplus of $67,500,
which is to be turned over to the
Swedish sloyd union.
The domestic supply companies of
Sweden are in q prosperous condition
and their business is increasing at a
rapid rate. The most recent report,
covering the year 1907. shows that at
the end Of that year their total assets
were about $1,755,000. The increase
for that year was about 100000. The
reports for the years 1903 and 1909
have not been completed.
There is no hotel at Lyckeby, Bic.
kinge Ian, and it often happens that
strangers who have to stop over night
are glad to Ut . chance to sleep in
The Jail