Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-09-14
SWEDEN.

WVOQ.
The traffic on the private railways
OF Sweden is much heavier this year
than last year.
A company has been formed for
starting and running an ostrich farm
ut hasunda, near Stockholm.
The king, the queen, and the queen
dowager have each donated 1000 kron-
or to the Swedish church in Paris.
Dry, hot weather during the month
of July killed most of the ants in Jemt-
land, leaving only few drowsy fe!-
lows in each hill.
A horse belonging to Sheriff Wann.
holm, OF Brosarp, was so scared by a
passing automobile that he fell down
stark dead on the road.
A few days ago fires were raging
in five different government forests
in Norrland. Incendiarism was strong
ly suspected in three Of these cases.
Some leading newspapers in south
ern Sweden propose the improvement
OF the coast defenses of that part of
the country by means of a system of
submarine mines.
The reindeer pasture committee is
now operating along the Norwegian
frontier in the extreme north. Its in
vestigations will be finished in the
latter part of September.
The first peoples pension congress
in Sweden, and most likely in the
whole world, will be held Oct. 12-14.
The chairman of the committee of a.
rangements is Baron G. Raab.
Rev. Erik Johan Segerstedt, assist
ant pastor at Tornsfall, diocese OF
Kalmar, is 80 years old, which makes
him the nestor of the Swedish clergy.
He has served at the same place for
50 years.
The trade unions of Lund and Up
sala have come out very strongly in
favor authorizing Swedish lotteries as
q means of preventing large amounts
of money from being paid to foreign
lottery concerns.
Gottfrid Bystrom, who is Is years
old and has served as school teacher
for As years, has just been appointed
regular teacher at Nora Lit. This is
something unique in the annals of the
public schools OF Sweden.
Mr.. Franzen, of Raflunda, took his
little girl with him when he went to
little lake to take a bath. The girl
was to stay on his back while he
swan across the lake. But in the mid
die of the lake she let go of her hold
around. his neck and was drowned.
The government has made the neces.
sary arrangements for buying the
Mora and Venern railway at Is per
cent of the par value of the stocks.
The Sveg and Brunflo line will also
be acquired by the government, which
will complete its line between Venern
and Cstersund.
The government has caused investi.
cations to be made for the purpose OF
ascertaining what changes ought to
be made in the present laws regulat'
ing the manufacture and sale of vege'
table lard and oleomargarine. The
.dalrymen claim that the manufacture
ers of oleomargarine are unduly ia
,vored by the present laws.
The farmers of Sweden, be their
holding big or small, are by no means
easy marks for the Socialists. Hence
the latter are modifying their pro
gram, contending that the real farm
els should be left undisturbed in their
possession of the land, and that only
capitalists owning land used by others
should be compelled to disgorge their
wealth for the benefit of the public.
North of Dele station there is a
crossing at which the Berkslag rail
way runs under the Karlstad and
Munkfors railway by means of a via
duct. Two factory girls who were
walking along the upper track hap
pened to pass the crossing just as a
freight train entered the tunnel I'M
der their feet. They stopped to look al
the train for a moment. Meanwhile
q train was approaching on their own
track, but they failed to notice it in
time, and both of them were run over
and crushed to death in an instant.
Herman Lagercrantz, who has just
been recalled by his government, has
been envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary from Sweden to the
United States since 1907. Prior tc
that he had a remarkably diversified
career in industrial, political and re
ligious work. Born in 1859, the so1
of Swedish minister of finance, he
was educated for military service, but
left the army to join General Bootf
of the Salvation Army in his work il
England and India. He returned tt
Sweden in 1896 and engaged in The
iron industry. He was president of {
railroad, which position he resigned tt
become a diplomat, coming here a:
his country's representative. In 100:
the Norwegian university conferred
on him the degree of LII. D.
The crown prince of Sweden did 81
we'll in jumping and long distance: run
ming at the Olympia grounds in Hell
SAu6OOA6 eAdI A0 ACNClFCu a OoA6S
which puts him in the ranks of ath
letic sportsmen, a distinction acquired
by no other heir apparent in the world
In jumping he cleared a height O
about four and half foot, or TIVE
inches above the minimum limit, ant
/ in the long distance run he covered
six and a half miles in AZ minutes
/, lie came out of the struggles in fin
condition. These conquests raised tn,
popularity Of thu crown prince severa
n0tches.
The state railways of Sweden hav,
! hoon Sl1nnliod with ton 10n0m 0fivQ on