Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1910-02-17

gross mismanagement and claim that
the roads show only three-fourths of
one per cent interest on the capital
The result is that the railway depart,
ment viii undergo some investigating
and it is probable that there will be
some drastic changes,
The Egner-Holmstrom microphone
has been given some exhaustive tests
to determine it's value for long dis
lance telephoning The tests were
conducted at the royal palace In
Stockholm and were entirely success
full, The king and queen conversed
with the Duke and Duchess of Baden
at Karlsruhe, Germany, in way sat
isfactory to all. The microphone uses
very powerful current.
Count Hans Won Stedink has been
selected as the new manager OF the
Royal Opera House i'm Sweden.
The city of Stockholm experienced
something of freak cyclone in Jan
uary, much damage being done to
buildings and telephone and telegraph
wires. The street car barns at the
Hagalunda station were blown down
and other buildings were partially
wrecked. Trees were torn I'D by the
roots and in the Noesby castle park
many 10o-year-old trees were blown
down
The death recently of Bengt johann
son, of Dengevik, In the Skephult par
ish, removes the oldest person in the
Ahlsborg district. He was 1903 years
of age and is survived by children.
grandchildren, great grandchildren
and great-great grandchildren
Erland Nordenskiold the noted ex-
plorer, is expected home from his lat
est trip this summer He is at pres
ent making tour of the South Amer
lean countries, where he is studying
the native peoples and making ethno-
graphic explorations. From letter
recently received 1t appears that the
discoverer is having excellent success
in his undertakings and he states he
will bring home the largest ethno-
Sweden by an explorer of South Am
erica
The Women's Academy of Idun, the
Swedish literary magazine, has award
ed the prize for the most important
woman's work during the year to
Madame Thora KulIe, of Lund. The
interest she has been engaged in is
the encouraging and teaching of the
old textile industry among the people
Madame kulle is so years of age and
conducts a textile establishment at
Lund with branches at Stockholm and
other places, for the teaching of the
textile arts
At Uddevalle recently a bad acct
dent happened at one of the stone
large piece of rock was thrown dis
lance of over $50 yards and crashed
through the roof of house. four.
year old son of C. X. Johanson was
instantly killed and the stone went
through the floor into room below
where a number Of people narrowly es-
capped death TIE investigation ex-
onerated the quarry men from the
charge of carelessness.
The manager of the Yatad packing
plant, who was found guilty of EN-.
bezzling the funds of the company to
the extent of 1913 crowns, has now
been sentenced to three months i'm
prisonment, sentence that the pub
lie finds too easy.
Stockholm-In an effort to check
emigration from Sweden, King Gus
tav has just approved plan for a Sc
ries of national plays in Swedish the
aters 10 awaken more patriotic feel
| ing among the people. The enterprise
will be pushed with special vigor al
Gothenberg, where most OF the emf
grants bound for America embark
The king says that emigration has
for years drained Sweden of large
proportion OF its best and most enter
pris!ng blood The recent gerera
I strike which ended with many high
class workinemen out OF positions. ant
still larger number dissatisfied will
/ labor conditions In Sweden, has Civ
en- decided impetus to emigration
! The king has also engaged the Arc
/ tic explorer, Nordeskjolt. to tour thu
country, occurring on national sui
! jects.
/ DR. Sven Hedin, who has been great
ly honored By all the scientific bodie.
and courts of Europe, has recent,
been made Knight Commander of ths
Indian Empire by King Edward o
England The insigniss of the orde
we're conferred upon him at dinne
in his honor by the British ambassa