Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-10-19
SWEDEN.

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pumpkin weighing 60 pounds.
Lulea exported 10000 tons Of iron
ore in one week. This beats all for
mer records.
The Rasunda athletic park at Stock
holm was dedicated in the presence
of 5000 people.
Sugar beets weighing five pounds
each have been picked on the farm
of Emil Harse, Akerslatt.
At Hofas, near Gothenburg, is an
apple tree on which were apples and
fresh blossoms at the same time.
Snow fell in Vastmanland about
the twentieth of October, and the
frost was so severe that ice was
formed on small creeks.
The sugar beets raised as far north
as Vastergotland are sweet almost
belond belief this season. At Halle
kis the sugar percentage was 1874, and
the average at Raback was 1876.
P. P. Waldenstrom, Immediately
upon his return from America, preach
ed to an audience of 5000 people in
Stockholm. His text afforded him an
opportunity to score Sunday sports.
The new wireless station at Gothen-
borg will be ready by November Is.
It is expected that the station will be
able to make connections with YES
sells as far south as the Mediterranean
sea.
The pilot department reports that
229 vessels were stranded on the
coasts Of Sweden in 1909, and II per
sons lost their lives. There were 1923
Swedish vessels, and 10 Of these were
wrecked.
The herring catch has been very
tight along the coast of Halland. This
is supposed to be due to the high TEN.
perature of shallow water, the fish
preferring to stay in the deep sea,
where the water remains cool.
The spelling of great many of
the names of the stations of the Swe-
dish railways have been changed.
The intention was to make the new
spelling phonetic, but in some cases
the changes have gone far beyond this
aim.
The Russian saw tilers" that were
arrested as spies at Boden are still
kept in prison. They are not ordinary
saw dlers, but it seems difficult to
prove that they are spies. The chances
are that they are political fugitives
from Russia.
The botanical division of the nation.
al museum at Stockholm has received
as gift from Prof. T. B. N. Krok, his
herbarium collected in Scandinavia
since 1851, as we'll as his botanical Ii.
brary Of 325 largo volumes and LOO
smaller publications.
The public employment bureau Of
Stockholm has been open for five
years. During that period 64,672 per-
sons have applied for positions, and
1888 positions have been offered.
The Office obtained work for 34,714
persons. This is looked upon as a
very satisfactory record.
A committee Of experts appointed
for the purpose of ascertaining the
causes of the general decadence of
tenant farming in Sweden, has come
to the conclusion that special instruc.
ton in farming on small scale ought
to be given to those who are inter
ested in husbandry.
A farmer named Finn Per OLSON,
at Tallberg, Dalarne, left his home
without returning at the expected
time. A search. was made for him,
but in vain. Weeks later some berry
piokers found him dead in the woods.
His death was caused by cold and
strvatfon. ..:a -.
King Gustaf made two addresses
on the occasion OF the dedication OF
the new electric power stations on
the Laga river.
At moose hunt near Elfkarleby
Nrs. Anna Berggren. the wife Of the
mayor q enndsvall, shot and killed q
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