Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1913-05-14

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Country and Abroad.
ON the FRONTIER QUESTION.
Convention Signed Between Sweden
and Norway After Long Neootiat
Earliest Norwegian Colony in Unit
ed States Settled in New Jersey In
1e24-lceland's Dairy Industry Ex-
pandlno at Wonderful Rate.
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A convention has been signed be-
tween Norway and Sweden concerning
the frontier question. The origin OF
the dispute was the wanderings of
reindeer each summer from Swedish
Lapland to Northern Norway, and the
essential point at issue was to what
extent it was necessary to allow this
immigration into Norwegian territory
In order to keep Swedish reindeer
herds alive, the immigration being re-
garded by Norwegians as nuisance.
The Karlstad convention Of 1905 took
up the question, which had remained
unsettled for centuries, and since that
year the authorities of both countries
have been continually occupied with
the matter. The governments even
tually agreed to have the question
partly solved by the international
court, established in 1909. Special
committees studied all sides of the
question and amassed an immense
amount of material, but it seemed
that the proceedings before the court
would never be concluded and in Sep
TENDER of last year the Swedish and
Norwegian foreign ministers met at
Gothenburg to discuss the possibility
of arriving at a friendly agreement
without further recourse to arbitra-
ton. AS result of these 'pourpar.
lers" direct negotiations were started
between the two governments, with
the proviso that recourse should be
taken to have the matter arbitrated
II the negotiations failed, The con.
vention just signed makes it likely that
q satisfactory treaty will be arranged
and further arbitration avoided. The
press of all parties in both countries
expresses satisfaction and hopes that
the new step may lead to friendly CO.
operation between Sweden and Nor
way in other spheres OF mutual inter-
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The next annual session of the So
ciety for the Advancement of the Study
of Scandinavian will probably be held
at the University of Minnesota, &C.
cording to Professor A. A. Stomberg
of the department Of Scandinavian
languages and literature at the Uni
versity of Minnesota, who returned
from convention held at Moline, ILL.,,
some time ago: The society has a
membership of 200, representing prac-
tically every university in the Middle
West. Professor Stomberg was re-
appointed chairman of the committee
on the study OF Scandinavian in Sec
ondary schools. He made a report to
the convention held in Minneapolis
recently in which he showed that thir-
ty high schools had included the Scan
dinavian languages in their courses of
study, with an enrolment of about
500 students. A resolution was passed
recommending that all high schools
adopt the study of Scandinavian as a
part of their curriculum. The invi-
tation to meet at the University of
Minnesota next year was extended by
Professor Stomberg and he believes
1t will be favorably considered by the
executive committee, which will Sc
lect the place for the meeting
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Vaccination parties have become a
fad in the Swedish capital as the re.
suit of an outbreak OF smallpox. In
many of the fashionable residences "at
homes" are given during the after
noon A doctor is invited to vaccinate
the guests and when the ordeal is over
there is dinner party. The demand
for vaccine has been so great that the
local supply is exhausted and orders
for sufficient quantity of it to treat
1000 persons has been ordered from
abroad. ,.,~
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johannesburg, in Transvaal, Africa,
has about 800 Swedes. A Gustavus
Adolphus society has been organized
among them and has secured small
chapel from the Germans. This chapel
is to be their general assembling place.
The society has written to Sweden
for donations to furnish the same. An
altar is to be sent in the near future
and Queen Victoria has promised to
furnish the altar cloths and other fur
nishings as mementoes from Sweden.
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Last August Captain s. v. Frederiks-
son and his crew. on the Swedish sail.
ing vessel Avance, rescued the crew
Of the German schooner Johanna. Be
cause Of this act the German emperor