Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1909-11-25
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TIDINCS FROM
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interesting News from Sweden,
Norway and Denmark
INCREASE IN PHONE SERVICE

UVOttSnO6 Nv uONS OetbusOS
Number Of Conversations Held Over
the Lines In Sweden During the
Year Were 312,4e7 1878, According to
the Report Of the National TeIe.
phone Compsny-Enormous Increase
In the Extension Of the Net Of Wires
Throughout the Country.
SWEDEN.
According to the annual report Of
the National Telephone company, the
telephone net has been increased with
1879 kilometers. and the number OF
kilometers along which telephone SER
vice is now supplied aggregates 22S.-
100 kilometers. To show what an en-
ormous increase there has been in the
extension of the telephone nets over
the country, the length of the lines ten
years were only 81 SOP kilometers. Tie
number of telephone apparatus have
increased since that time from 1885,
to 109,939. The number of converse.
tions during the year, were 312,467,.
SIS. of which 14,730,S7S were for ex-
tended periods of conversation and for
which extra payment was charged.
Stockholm naturally comes first on the
list with fifty-one million converse.
tons The total income from tele-
phone subscribers amounted, during
the year of 1908. to not less than
5,695,571 crowns, with an additional
100000 crowns for extra converse
tions, showing an increase Of over 10
per cent. Since 1881, the National
Telephone company has therefore net.
ted the country the very respectable
sum of 47.443,573 crowns.
The proclamation of the Finnish
senate, issued Nov Is. making Russian
martial law applicable to Finland,
threatens to precipitate the Russian
Finnish struggle which has been i'm
pending for more than a year. All
Sweden is deeply interested in every
move and the Swedish papers are fol-
lowing events in Finland very closely
these days. The senate. stuffed with
Russian representatives, juggled into
office when the Finnish members re.
signed rather than turn their country's
funds over to the car. is of course
purely proRussian. The martial law
proclamation is considered the first
step in the movement to wipe out Fin
nish independence. In Swedish minds
there is no doubt that the Firms will
make an attempt to stave off the swal
lowing up of their country by Russians,
but there is some doubt whether they
succeed.
Edward s. Winslow, the American
consul general in Stockholm, when on
q visit to Berlin short time ago, spoke
some very fiattering things regarding
Sweden and the Swedes. He urges his
countrymen to pay a visit to Sweden
for that country is. he says, one of
the most interesting countries in the
world to visit. Among other things
Mr.. Winslow said Sweden is just as
interesting in winter as in summer.
We have there real winter and real
summer. Winter brings clear weather
and glorious white snow, and Journeys
through the country districts are es-
pecially interesting to the tourists ow.
ing to the great variety of scenery that
meets the eye on every hand The
railroads are a point OF comfort and
their equipment is the most modern in
the world"
A few women have begun protesting
against keeping wild birds in captivity
in the great open air geological gar
den Skansen and on the evening Of
Nov. /, they held a meeting at which
| appeared several women speakers
among whom were Miss Lizzie Lind
one Miss Dawson from London, Miss
Schartau and others. They protest
against keeping wild birds and other
animals in captivity on the grounds
that il is cruel. II is not believed thai
their protests will have any effect or
the Park authorities or on other class
es in Stockholm. as Skansen is re
garded an educational institution, be-
ing one of the complstest botanical ant
geological gardens in the world. The
1 Win dulIliaiS are TeCeiNIDS the very
best Of care and seem to thrive yer,
well indeed.
The first sky scraper has now beer
erected in Stockholm and is only /
small building of course in comparison
to the Chicago and New York SIX,
scrapers. The building, which has beer
erected by the Kattingen Real Estat,
company, is located near the Kings isl
and and is fourteen stories high.
has been erected at an expenditure O
100000 crowns. The Stockholmian
think the building is altogether to-
high and say that the architectural Ell
feet of such a building is not pleasing
to the eye.
Nov. 6, which marked the death O
King Gustavus Adolphus on the BATH
held of Lutzen, was commemorated II
Stockholm In speech and song. Tn
Stockholm singers gathered around tn
statute of the king in Stockholm an,
rendered number of patriotic songs.
Sofia, widow queen of the late Kin
Oscar, and her son, Prince Eugen, hav
departed for High Grove, England