Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-05-03
SWEDEN.

The capital stock Of the Separator
manufacturing has been raised to &c.
100000.
King Gustaf left for the Riviera
April 5. His first. point of destination
was Nice. 49,.
On the last day of March snow
storm blockaded several traips on the
Gellivare & Ofoten railway.
The Separator manufacturing COM
pany of Stockholm donated $3.50 to
the government for building two new
life saving stations.
AS a freight train passed Harnsjo
station, Vasterbotten, two cars carry
ing charcoal were on fire. They were
uncoupled, and a brisk fight against
the fire was started. But the cars and
their contents were completely de-
stroyed.
Sweden consumed 1900 pounds Of
gold and $4,000 pounds of silver for
industrial purposes in 1910. The gold
deposits at the Riksbank are $780,
900. Sweden has coined a total OF
about $23,000,000 in gold coins, aad
about 100000 in subsidiary silver
coins.
Rev. A. G. Ellis, pastor of the parish
of Pajala, which is located 80 miles
north of the Polar circle, has petit.
toned the government for permission
to cut 5000 trees on the government
lands of the locality, sell the timber.
and spend the proceeds for new build.
ings and repairing the old ones. The
petition contains much interesting in.
formation. The buildings are located
on an island in the Muoni river, which
forms the Finnish boundary line. Rev.
Ellis explains that he cannot afford to
pay for the necessary improvements
out of his own pocket, the necessaries
of life being exoybitant in that part OF
the country At certain seasons of the
year not quart u sweet milk nor 4
peck of potatoes Is for sale in the
whole parish. It is four miles to the
nearest village, and eggs cannot b
bought within distance of forty miles.
Flour and salt can be obtained only
at the nearest railway station, which
is fifty miles away. Even fuel is diff
cult to obtain. There were only chin
neys in the buildings, and Rev. Ellis
put in two heating stoves at a personal
cost of $3.50. The hay that was made
last summer had to be stacked outside
for lack of hay sheds, and the result
was, that large part of the hay croI
was eaten up by reindeer and moose.
About 200 persons-authors, artists
critics, scientists, politicians, ETC., have
scription for tho benefit of August
Strindberg, the author. The gift is te
be handed to him on his next birthday
January %.
Henric Person, of Melting, is known
as the great moose hunter of Bergs
lagen. He is 50 years old and blind
But in the hunting season he goes t.
the woods to listen to the hunters. HI
counted the moose killed by him unit
they numbered Its, but then he begaE
to kill two with one shot and neglect
ed to keep count Of them.
Yugvar Brun, secretary of the "Rika
maaI'' association, is dead at Christian
| la. He fought persistently for th1
protection of the Dano-Norwegian Ian
| guage against the inroads OF thu
Landsmaal, or peasant dialect, and
was very popular in the literary cir
cles of the capital.
The largest number of one kind q
grammophone plates sold in Swedel
last year, namely, 10000, was that d
..The Wooer's Waltz" The piece had
been sung to accordion accompani
ment by pa architect named Fopand
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