Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1912-03-29

annexing first honors at the Olympic
games at Stockholm this year in the
100, 200 and 400-yard events with D.
Mcmillan, the long striding Cambridge
university runner. In practice he
showed record time and it was be-
lieved that he will defeat any of the
sprinters, despite the contention Of
Americans that they have the winners
of the big three events bottled up
across the pond. McMillan's best fig
ure for 100 yards is 94s seconds and
the experts believe he will shave that
In Sweden.
That there is genuine interest be-
ing evinced in the Olympic games
which are to be held in Stockholm
this summer can be cleaned from the
following: When the public sale of
tickets for the Olympic games in
Stockholm was opened on Feb. 10 it
was announced that the sales up to
that date had brought over $4,000.
The American committee had ordered
some of the best seats for about $1,000.
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The Swedes of the United States
kindly remembered their friends and
relatives of the fatherland at Christ
mas time. About $4,000 money orders
were received from America during
last December, amounting to about
100000. In the same month sof 1910
the number of money orders we're 49,
900.
The Swedish Seamen's society main
tains stations in London, Westhardle-
pool, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Kiel, Wis
mar, Flensburg, Stettin, Copenhagen,
johannesburg, Christiania and on the
island of Shetland at an annual out.
lay of 10000 crowns.
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The German crown prince will be
among the royal personages who will
visit Stockholm this coming summer
! to see the Olympian games. During
his Stockholm sojourn he will be the
guest of the crown prince of Sweden.
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Norway's merchant marine takes q
leading rank among even the great
nations of the world and that the
growth of it has been marvellous may
be cleaned from the following facts
submitted recently by a Copenhagen
authority: I'm 1870 the tonnage OF
the Norwegian steamship feet was
only 10000 tons. In 1878 it was Sc, 900,
in 1884 100000 and in 1890 it was 200,,
600. From that time on the tonnage
increased enormously, amounting in
1900 to 100000 and in 1910 to $4,000
tons. 1t is expected that by the end
OF 1912 the figure will be full million
The tonnage of the sailing feet
reached it's highest point in 1890. when
vessels with total tonnage of 1902.
600 tons sailed under the Norwegian
flag. In 1910 the tonnage had fallen
to 100000. The value of the sailing
fleet has, however, not fallen proper
t1onately with the tonnage, as a large
share of the sailing ships at the pres
ent time are iron or steel vessels
which were practically unknown in
Norwegian shipping in $780,"
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In view of the possibility of the or
ganlzation of a STRAIGHTFORWARD
Defense society the Norwegian journal
T1dens Tegn says: I'm order to pro
tect the peace and safety of the Scan
d1naVian peninsula much would be
gained if the defense movement could
be so arranged that we, as nations
would stand together in time of peace
as we'll as war and never cross the
border unless we did so in the defense
OF both nations. No one who sincerely
believes in a great future for the
brother kingdoms of the North car
have any doubt that we may come tC
a full understanding and agreement
on this important question and when
this occurs everyone will agree thai