Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1909-10-07
TID|NCS FROM
SCANDINAVIA
Interesting News from Sweden,
Norway and Denmark.
WORLDS IRON ORE SUPPLY

Swedish Expert Estimates II at $780,.
600 Tons-internationa Geological
Congress VIII Meet In Stockholm
Next Year and its Main Task viii
Be to Test These Figures-Estlmate
on the Demand for Iron During the
Next Ten Years.
SWEDEN.
A Swedish expert estimates the
worlds iron ore supply at 9,250,000
tons. To test this figure thoroughly
will be the main task OF the interna-
tional geological congress, which is to
meet at Stockholm next year. An.
other expert estimates the worlds de-
mand for iron during the next ten
years at 10000 900 tons year, which
means from 150000,0 900 to 100000 900
tons of ore. Ore containing less than
20 per cent of pure iron is not regard
ed as worth smelling. It is therefore
only the ore fields yielding more than
| 20 per cent of the metal that enter the
calculation. The largest of these, that
of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS in Sweden,
contains. according to the latest es-
Inmates, from 600,000,000 to 100000.
600 tons Of ore, which would be suf-
ficient to cover the worlds needs for
barely five years.
| The number of Swedish emigrants
who have emigrated via Stockholm,
Gothenburg and Malmohus, were dur.
ing the first eight months Of the pres.
ent year not less than 10,024. This
figure shows tremendous increase
over last year, when there were only
1870 persons who emigrated. The Of
ficials of the government are not lit.
tie worried over the situation, and the
anti-emigration society, which has
been working so zealously during the
past year find that their work in this
direction has proven to be of no avail
whatsoever.
The great field maneuvers I'm Norr.
| land, which threatened to be discon.
tinued owing to the strike, have been
In progress for week or more in the
presence of King Gustaf. Great prep
arations were made for these field
maneuvers, which are the greatest
| that have ever been held in the coun-
try. The war play purports to prevent
an attack from supposed enemy in
| the east The army is under CON-
mand of General Torpadie. Russia,
| France, England and the United
! States are represented by expert army
officers.
| In making his church visitations
Bishop Billings lately instructed the
pastors to keep record of the lead
ing events which transpire in their
parishes. These records are to be
kept as historical facts for future his
| torians. In this way the ministers
become historians and the archives Of
the parishes repositories of historical
information. The plan has met with
general approval among the clergy
throughout the entire country.
The following are the oldest minis
| tiers in Sweden at present and they
have grown to ripe old age: Rev.
e. j. Segerstedt, OF Tornsfall, Is nine
ty-one years old; Rev. P. Branded, of
Nordingo, has completed his ninetieth
year, and e. J. Nordling, of Njurunda,
completed his eighty-ninth year last
February. Besides these there are
ffty-nine ordained ministers who have
passed their eightieth year.
Betty Carlson, a woman aged for
ty-five years, committed suicide by
han ojn0 horo olf tho ofha~ Hay nu,s, -
to the strike she lost her position at
the Rorstrand Glass factory some time
ago and she brooded over the loss Of
her position SO much that she decided
| to end her life. This is only one OF
| the many cases of suicide that can be
traced direct to the unfortunate strike
From Berlin comes a dispatch stat
ing that the metal workers. In session
there, have decided to send the Swed-
ish strikers $4,000 and will continue
to send more funds as time goes on.
They sent words of announcement to
their fellow workmen and fully ap-
prove of their course.
! Real estate owners held a big meet
ing in Stockholm last week to adopt
measures to relieve the distressing sit
uation among renters. Rents have
been very high In the capital city and
not half Of the tenants have been able
TO pay up.
| Stockholm's oldest inhabitant at
present is Miss Johanna Berns, who
celebrated her 101st birthday the 9TH
er day. She is still in excellent health
and is in possession OF all her mental
faculties.
! An unknown persons has donated
5000 crowns to the Stockholm police
force. whose position has indeed been
a very trying one during the big
strike
A bomb was exploded a week ago
last Monday under an electric rail.
way car. but fortunately no damage
i was done and no lives were lost.
Nearly 100 employees who have the
past ten years been employed by the
Stockholm Electric company have emil
grated to America.
The Messenger Boys association,
which was organized in Stockholm by
Hinke Bergegren, has been dissolved