Willmar tribune., 1909-01-13

! COpcnnagen on the lana SlCe. Next
he proceeds to argue that the best way
to protect the city from attacks by
sea is to place mines in Oresund,
which could be done very cheaply
provided the relations to Sweden are
of the friendliest sort.
SWEDEN.
The value of the real estate of the
! city of Malmo is put at $1G,O00,000.
The Conservatives made a clean
sweep at the recent city elections in
Upsala.
The municipal taxes of Stockholm
will be about 9 per cent higher in 1909
than in 1908.
The Sodra Sverige Steamship COM
pany has been absorbed by the Svea
Steampship company
The receipts of the national treas
| ury of Sweden were about 100000
less in 1908 than in 1907.
The traffic on the state railways
of Sweden was much heavier in Oc-
tober, 1908, than in October, 1907.
An ancient burial ground has been
found at Ostra HUSKY, Cstergotland.
About 60 tombs have been pointed out.
The high school for girls at Vester-
as was closed on account of diptherla,
| one teacher and a score of pupils
| having been attacked.
Work en- public improvements in
Cothenburg will be rushed somewhat
out of season in order to furnish work
for the unemployed.
Dec. 9 must have been a very sober.
day in Stockholm, for on the next day
not a single drunk was brought be-
! fore the courts. This beats all rec
ords for 20 years past.
A call has been made for funds for
monument on the graves of the
Swedes who fell in battle at Po!tava
Russia, in 1909. But about 80 citizens
of Gothenburg have issued protest
against the whole plan as unwise.
The Swedish railway men have an
organization which they call Rest
Home union, and the government owns
a building at Tvakeryd falls, Lagan
river, which the union may use as
'rest home" until other quarters may
be obtained.
| OF the nineteen students at the
Lund cathedral school who registered
at the University OF Lund, Dec. 1858,
; five are still living, and four of them
| held reunion at their alma mater
on the tiftieth anniversary of their
matriculation.
! Mr.. HerlitZ made remarkable mo-
ton in the city council of Stockholm
He proposed an ordinance providing
that in case of strikes in the public
departments of the city, citizens OF
a certain age shall be compelled to
step in and serve in. place of the
strikers.
The Southern Sweden Power COM
pany, the majority of whose stocks
are owned by the cities of Malmo,
Lund, Landskrona, Helsingborg and
Halmstad, has made arrangements for
! selling bonds amounting to $1,OSO,OOO
! to the Skane Enskilda bank and the
Sodra Svevige bank. The rate of in
terest is to be So per cent, and the
debt is to be paid in annual Install
ments before the close of the year
1888.
Five hundred laborers quit work on
the new railway line from Ostersund
! to Ulriksfors, and the men are
threatening a strike on all new lines
built by the government. The cause
| of the trouble is that the government
| demands ten-hour day during the
time of the year when daylight lasts
! long enough. There is no disagree
| ment as to wages or other matters.
About 1000 men refuse to accept good
; jobs offered to them, and in some
places the men who are at work are
! protected by policemen.
Professor Eucken, who received the
literary Nobel prize for 1908, has been
interviewed with regard to the disap-
pointment felt in Sweden because Sell
ma Lagerlof did not get the prize. He
said that he had carefully studied the
directions given by Nobel for the
awarding Of this prize, and he felt
that he could accept it with good
! conscience. But he added that he was
in hopes that Selma Lagerlof will get
the prize in 1909. At any rate, he
thought that she was far more entitled
| to it than Swinburne, who received as
many votes as 1he in the Swedish
academy.
The government Of Sweden is
stretching itself far in order to furnish
work for the idle, new railroads and
public buildings Offering the best
! chances for the employment of COM
mon labor.
The exact amount of each of the
five Nobel prizes for 1908 was $37,-
745.73 There was an increase of
about $270 in one year, and the main
fund is constantly increasing.
1t is proposed to raise the dog tax
in the larger Swedish cities to such
an extent that dogs will become much
more scare than they are now.
The music band of the huzzar regi-
ment of the crown prince of Sweden
will not be permitted to make a con-
cert tour of America. All conditions
were fulfilled, and everything was
ready for the trip.
| Tho Tornhou,nor c,,1n fo.%o,r ~