Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-05-02
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SCANDINAv|ANS
Eecent Happenings In This
Country and Abroad.
STOCKHOLM OLYMPIC GAMES

STOCKHOLM OLYMPIC GAMES
Swedish Committee to Have Complete
Control Of Arransements-krupp
Company Takes Over Large Iron
Field In Norway-Monument to
Danish Explorer at Copenhagen.
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James E. Sullivan, secretary OF the
American Olympic committee, who
has received many inquiries in rela-
ton to the management of the olym-
pic games at Stockholm this summer,
says that the Swedish Olympic com
mittee will have complete control OF
the games. This body has arranged
everything In connection with the
greatest of athletic meets, according
to Mr.. Sullivan, and will be response
BILE for whatever takes place at STOCK
holm while the games are in progress.
The actual management OF the diner-
ent sports has been delegated to SUBJ
committees appointed by h govern
ing sporting associations OF Sweden.
namely, the Central and National as
sociations. Each country is entitled
to enter twelve men in each event
and in team contests one team. The
+, Swedish Olympic committee recog-
nizes as a nation any country hav-
ing separate representatives In the
Olympic committee, or where no such
representation exists any group con-
sidered as a nation at the last Olym-
piad will be considered as such at the
games this summer The American
interests will be looked after by the
American Olympic committee.
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The Turkish minister to Sweden,
General Cherif, is very much disgust
ed because one of the former members
Of the Turkish legation in Stockholm
has been appointed Turkeys minister
at another court in Europe. In a
Partisan paper General Cherif has re-
vealed some inside pictures regard
ing the conduct Of the members OF the
Turkish legation and 1t makes
~singularly interesting reading. He
claims that all of the members were
renegades and d~egenerates; that they
had borrowed money right and left in
Stockholm and zone of them had made
any attempt to settle their debts. He
protested most vigorously against ad-
yancing any of them to any higher
diplomatic post. The matter has
created much gossip in court circles
in Stockholm and judging from what
is being circulated the Turks who
were members of the Ottoman lega-
ton in Stockholm must have had an
unusually fast time of it in the Swed-
ish capital.
According to Oscar Hedman, one of
the survivors of the Titanic, there
were about 120 Swedish and Finnish
emigrants on the Ill fated ocean liner.
All of these people lost everything
they had when the Titanic went down
and most of the 120 Swedes and Firms
on that ship lost their lives. The
survivors were the following: Ernst
Peterson, bound for Chicago; Oscar
Johnson, going to Wisconsin; SEVERN
Svenson, on his way to his father in
North Dakota; Miss Hilda Hellstrom,
from Northern Sweden, going to Chi
cago; Miss Anna Bibborn, from Fin
land, en- route to the state of Wash
ington, and Miss Bertha Nelson, en-
route to Missoula, Mont.
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A vacation trip which will Include a
visit to London and Oxford university
Is what a number of high school stu
dents In Stockholm have in mind for
this summer. Such a trip was ar
ranged to England last year and 1t
proved so popular that 1t will be re-
peated again this year. The students
will be accompanied by two or more
OF the professors at the Stockholm
high school and will be given an op-
poiIuhily " NN5it OH Tic AiotoiiS
places In London.
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The Skeptuna congregation In the
province of Upland was recently pre-
scented with 10000 own from a well
known business man in Stockholm as
q memento of the Tooth anniversary
OF his fathers birth at that place. An
other interesting feature in connec-
ton with the event was that all the
poor of the congregation were invited
to the church. One hundred appeared
and each one received 10 crowns.
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Sam Kellin, associate editor of the
Dagens Nyheter (Stockholm), who
was instrumental in securing the ar
rest of the international jewelry thief,
Nystrom. for whose capture dead or
alive a reward of 1000 crowns was
promised by the government, has been
paid the reward.
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