Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-08-03
SWEDEN.


and straw to Germany in 1907
There are 259 bottling works that
produce soft drinks in Sweden.
The rye crop was destroyed by frost
In some localities in Ostergotland.
The Swedes in Berlin have sent 80
OF their children to Sweden for a va
cation Of FIVE weeks.
Upsala and vicinity were recently
visited by rain and hail storm which
did considerable damage.
The sarcophagos of King Karl XII
Is crumblng so badly that it may drop
to pieces almost any time.
Over $500 riflemen participated in
the rifiemen's national tournament at
Stockholm few days ago.
Five men representing the govern
ment of Japan are studying the cleo
trio water power stations Of Sweden.
Sweden had an abnormally heavy
rainfall during the first days Of July.
Now the people of the upper Mis-
sissippi valley may know where their
rain went!
While a farmer named Carl N.
Widen was driving along the road in
Kola he noticed two grown badgers
fighting a short distance ahead. He
tied his horse, picked up big stick,
and sent them both to happier hunt
ing grounds almost before they no.
ticed the man.
A list Of the birds and beasts of
prey killed in Sweden in 1908 is given
below: 9 bears, 10 wolves, Fl lynxes,
81 wolverines, 23,159 foxes, 2S3 mar.
tens, 2S6 offers, 1854 seals, 40 eagles,
524 owls, 1866 hawks, 1873, 800 crows,
and 4,149 badgers. During the same
year the birds and beasts of prey
killed 1915 sheep, 81 goats, 1859 rein
deer, and 5S,S37 fowls.
The three tuberculosis sanatoriums
started by means of the 100000 given
to King Oscar by the people of Swed-
en- on the occasion of his twenty-fifth
year jubilee, are becoming more and
more popular. There are four grades
of accommodations, the daily expenses
being 1879 cents, "a cents, 81 cents,
and IS cents. The rush is greatest
to the cheapest department, and a
person wishing to enter this depart
ment must wait on the average over
nine months after his application has
been accepted by the management
The time of waiting has been increas-
ing from year to year in this depart
ment, while the time of waiting has
been almost two months in the most
expensive department ever since the
opening of the institutions, in 1900.
Plans are being perfected for opening
many smaller tuberculosis sanatori-
ums In different parts of the country.
Swedish royalty is gradually becom-
ing democratic to a degree. The
crown prince and princess seem to
have received the Swedish-American
singers almost as equals. Says one of
the singers after a visit to the Sofiero
Palace in southern Sweden: "The
princely couple had been our guides
throughout the half hour so pleasantly
spent at Sofiero. The crown-prince,
a tall young man of prepossessing ap-
pearance and charming directness of
speech and manner, had inquired
most interestedly into the birthplace,
calling and conditions of good many
OF us. His consort, almost as tall as
he himself, blonde and graceful, and
goWned in black mourning her uncle,
King Edward, introduced her two little
sons, Princes Gustaf Adolf and Sig
ward, a pair Of cherubs aged perhaps
and years, respectively. Their
mother made them shake hands with
us and have them declare that they
are true little Ekaningar, as behoove
the sons Of the prince and princess
Of SHANE"
An American newspaper CORES
pondent writes very entertainingly
about the Nobel Oil Company, at Baku,
Russia, saying in part: There are
three large companies, the largest be-
longing to the family of the late Alfred
Nobel, the Swedish philantropist, who
founded the Nobel institute at Stock
holm. Alfred Nobel himself was
largely interested in the development
of the Baku oil industry at the begin
ming, but about the year 1877 he with
drew, and his brothers, Ludwig and
Robert Nobel, continued the work.
They turned their holdings over to a
stock company many years ago, and
Emmanuel Nobel, son of Ludwig, now
holds the controlling interest in the
company. He is the Rockefeller of
Russian petroleum and is estimated to
be worth $60,000,O00. Although a
Swede by birth and ancestry, he is a
Russian subject and maintains a splen-
did palace in St. Petersburg. The
company employs about 10000 peo-
pie and has refneries and machine
shops covering an area of one and a
half square miles. Arthur Lessner,
also Swede, IS general manager. The
company is stock concern, organized
under Russian laws, and its shares are
dealt regularly in on all stock ex-
changes of Europe.
King Gustaf received the Swedish
American singers in the white Sea-"
a part of the royal palace Prof.
Ortengren, of Chicago, the instructor,
and Victor Nelson, of Minneapolis,
were decorated with the Order Of
Vasa. The king greeted the singers
with a few cordial words, and ex-
pressed his regret because the queen
was unable to be present.
The national government of Sweden
is going to appoint an expert statistic
ian to report on anti-liquor legisla-
ton in all parts of the world. An
Upsala professor is apt to get the
job.