Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-06-21
SWEDEN,

Aue aelSlngDOrg ana HeSSlenOln
railway company has declared a divi
dend of per cent.
Sweden imported machinery 70,
100000 last year. More than hall
Of the goods came from Germany.
Almost 700 dogs will be- on exhibit
ton at the kennel show of the Stock
holm kennel club, and over 80 prizes
will be distributed.
An electric bridge derrick at Fred
riksskans harbor, near Cafe, was
blown down and demolished during 4
storm. The damage was $4,000.
The outhouses on the Kvistbro par.
ish poor-farm, near Orebro, were de
stroyed by fire. Some of the stock
was burnt to death. The damage was
$4,000. --s.~- 49,.
The snowdrifts were from s to 10
feet deep the latter part of May at
Riksgransen, station near the Nor
wegian line on the Gellivare and Ofo
ten railroad.
The parliament Of Persia has ratf
fed the contracts made with three
Swedish officers who are to assist in
the reorganizations of the gendarm-
erie of Persia. .....
No competent person has applied
for the position of public school teach
er at Dormsjo, Garpenberg, and Herr
Endre, the sheriff of the place, has
taught the school for several months
Past.
The executive committee of tho ma.
tional anti-emigration society has is.
sued an appeal to the young people
OF the country to sell badge carry
Ing the motto Of the socity: Hem /
Sverige" (Home in Sweden).
There was only one white peahen
at the Skansen geological gardens,
Stockholm, and fox dug hole under
the fence in the night and made a
meal Of the costly bird. The hole and
q heap of feathers told the story.
The new commercial treaty between
Sweden and Germany has been signed
by the German Foreign Secretary and
the Swedish minister. Herr Won
Trolle. Germany had to negotiate
upon the basis Of the new Swedish
tariff, which will come into force Dec.
/, and could not look at the matter
from the point Of view of comparison
with the agreement Of 1906, which ex-
PRED at the end OF last year. The
autonomous rates of the new Swedish
tariff are appreciably higher than
those which prevailed under tho 1906
agreement, in the case Of most Of the
products which Germany exports to
Sweden. By the new treaty Germany
obtains reductions on a certain num-
Der Of articles, but, on the other hand,
she has not been able to increase her
own tariff on the Swedish products
which she imports. German imports
from Sweden consist principally Of iron
ore and building timber, raw materials
which are used by German manufac-
turers and which she cannot afford to
tax heavily. The Swedish imports
from Germany, on the other hand, are
largely manufactured articles which
Sweden now desires to produce her
self. Germany, therefore, was some.
what at a disadvantage in the negotia-
lions. The "Frankfurter Zeitung"
complains that difficulties have been
placed in the way of the export trade
with Sweden, which is now deter
mined to protect and encourage her
own Industries.
The following list gives the number
Of animals and birds of prey killed
In Sweden in 1909: 26 wolves, II
lynxes, Sc wolverines, 23,037 foxes,
1876 martens, Is offers, 6,476 seals, 261
eagles. 555 owls, 16.3o8 hawks, 504, $40
crows. and $3.50 badgers. The nation
al government paid $500 towards
bounties for killing the animals, and
provincial governments, economical
societies, communes, and game protec-
ton clubs added enough to make the
grand total Of bounties $4,000.
The winter rye was heading out in
southern Sweden the 18th Of May, or
about . week earlier than last year.
An eighty-year old woman in Ris-
inge was losing her eye-sight, and BY
the time She was practically blind she
had made up her mind to have an
operation. Tho physician was op-
posed to this on account Of her old
age. But the old lady stubbornly de-
manded an operation. which was per-
formed. 81
4 trainer named HJertberg Is going
from ono city to another to train those
mon who are to take part IN the ath-
letic sports at Olympic games IN
Stockholm next year. He says that
Sweden offers the best materials tor
- 1870 fhaf No haa ava. aaar, W.