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Show Colony of Fins for Alaska. Chicago, Oct. 6. "Half of the people in my country, including the Swedish speaking population, and the most prosperous of the agricultural class, stand ready to leave Finland and emigrate emi-grate to America." This was the statement state-ment made by Dr. Nils Olaf Paulander, a prominent Finn who passed through Chicago on his wa3' to Alaska to look over some localities suitable for a Finnish Fin-nish colony. Dr. Paulander will later meet the Finnish commissioner now in Canada. The tyrannical Russianizing of Finland, contrary to the Finnish constitution and in violation of the czar's pledge, is the eause given for proposed emigration. |