Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-03-23
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Boras
Swe0eKs most popular artist, And.
ers Zorn, is fifty years old.
England has prohibited the importa'
ton of hay and straw from Sweden.
The profits of the Separator Man
ufacturing Company Of Stockholm for
the past year were $855,000.
Hjalmar Josephson Of Stockholm
donated $4,000 to the seraphim hospi.
tai for the purchase Of radium.
An earthquake at Daily, Varmland,
was so violent that the building
creaked and pieces Of furniture were
moved from THAR places.
The department of war has an.
nounced that ski squads will be or.
ganized in the army, but only volun.
teers will be enlisted In that service
Many reindeer have starved to
death In Jemtland because a hard
crust on the snow prevents them from
reaching the moss. So far they have
been kept on Swedish territory.
Captain Rorstrom of Kungsor died
at the Hoping hospital. A corn on
his foot made an amputation neces.
sary. But gangrene set in, and the
man died. He was IS years old.
Those who want local option are re.
ceiving but scant encouragement in
the Swedish riksdag. But it looks as
if a committee will be appointed to
make report on the liquor question.
The agricultural department is anx.
ious to prevent the importation of dis
eased potatoes to Sweden. After a
thoro investigation the department
has come to the conclusion that
nothing short of an embargo on for.
eign potatoes will keep certain potato
diseases out Of Sweden.
The government had to confiscate
some land at Trollhattan on account
Of a new canal, and the owners OF
the land confscated were permitted
to buy government land in the neigh.
hood. Under ordinary circumstances
the government land at this place is
not sold, but only rented out to the
occupant.
Over one hundred steamers and
about forty sailing vessels having an
aggregate tonnage of $4,000 are laid
up in Stockholm and suburbs There
are also about so tug boats, motor
boats, launches, and yachts that are
idle. The crews Of these vessels num-
Der about 1000 men, all of whom are
out Of work.
August Johansson, a former mem.
Der Of the riksdag, has brought suit
against Dowager Queen Sophia and
Princes Carl, Eugene and Bernadotte
her sons, to compel them to produce
certain letters left by Helga de la
Brache, in 1912, with King Oscar l.
She claimed to be a daughter of King
Gustav " and the new dynasty is &C.
cused of having treated her unjustly
to the detriment of the Swedish PEG.
pie, by appropriating her private for.
tune, amounting to $1,620,000. Helga
de la Brache is an old acquaintance
in the history Of modern Sweden
Every few years she has bobbed up
and made dig for the royal family
of Sweden, and August Johansson is
her legal adviser.
Harvesting of the Trollhattan wa
terfal1 has been completed and the
water turned on. The machinery has
developed $4,000 horsepower and this
is expected to reach 100000. The
falls belong to the government. They
are familiar to tourists who have trav
eled over the Gotta canal in south
western Sweden.
School Inspector Won Scheele is en-
gagged in revising the studies in the
common schools Of Sweden. Accord
ing to the new plan, religion will be
studied only in the higher classes. Al
present Luther's catechism is studied
in the local classes.
A course of scientific lectures on
temperance was given at Karlstad
and Bishop Eklund was asked to make
few remarks at the close. He die
so. But his address was surprise tt
the temperance people. He had found
he said, that the total abstainers were
afraid to challenge each other to be
men who can stare temptation in the
face and defy it. "You must not be
so cowardly," he said, "as to blams
society when you are unable to resist
the temptation"
King Gustaf received many tokens
Of good will and lovs during his re
cant sickness -. 4 -. %>&%