Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-07-06
this school running, and the annual re-
ceipts from landed property belonging
to the school are about $4,000.
NORWAY.

pate and by vote of "a to IS, appro-
priated $675. 600 for commencing the
construction of two new ironclads. In
mediately afterwards an extraordinary
appropriation for the defenses,
amounting to 81, 800, 900, was made.
Over one-half of this amount is to be
spent during the present fiscal year.
The salary of the king was put at $780,
720, and the appanage of the crown
prince at $21, 600. For four years past
the appanage of the crown prince has
been only IS, 100; but now both Pre-
mier Steen and President Ullman were
IN favor of raising it to what it was be.
fore 1894.
university summer school will be
the educational feature of the summer
at Kristiania.
The railway committee Is unani-
mously in favor of the Ofoten railway.
The proposed line is Short running
from the seaport of Narvik to the west
end OF the proposed Swedish railway
known as the Gellivare and Ofoten
railway. The length of the line will
be about % English miles, and the
cost is put at 81, $50, 600.
Walter Wellman, the American ex-
plorer, left Tromso June 26 for the
Arctic regions. He has two objects in
view, one to find Andree, the other to
find the North Pole.
young peoples rally in Tonset was
attended by 800 persons.
The 18th of May celebration in Cape
Colony, South Africa, was attended by
IS Norwegians.
A new dairy has been opened at
Oiestad, Arendal The cost of the
plant is IS, 900 and it's capacity is 1850
gallons day. The state dairy school
is connected with the new establish
ment.
The health Of Bishop S7erdrup is i'm
proving.
Henrik Jelstrup, lawyer and prom
inent citizen of Trondhjem, is dead.
Fifteen elk dogs will be purchased
around Trondhjem for Otto Sverdrup's
Arctic expedition, and the rest will be
secured in Greenland.
A private company Is organizing to
build a railway between Eide and
Gudvangen, at an estimated cost of
$3.50, 900.
Bjornson makes a strong plea in
favor of having the state monopolize
the purchase of foreign grain.
Prof. C, Bang is dead.
The Krag-Jorgensen rifle manufac-
turing company earned so per cent for
its stockholders last year, the entire
or fo1 hov
There is, besides, a surplus of $50, 900
in the treasury, with prospect of fur
Their dividends in the near future.
What Bjornstjerne Bjornson never
fully accomplished. his gifted son
Bjorn now promises to attain The
father for years struggled in vain to
place the Norwegian stage upon a
firm, national and artistic footing, a
loss to the theater, while q distinct
gain to the literature of Norway. Now
Bjorn Bjornson has been elected man
ager Of the new theater at Kristiania,
thus stepping to the front of the ma
tional Norwegian stage and finding
himself in position to regenerate it
upon modern and truly artistic lines.
Three young ladies In Kristiania a
couple of years ago agreed to raise
vegetables by improved methods-the
culture of that food is still in a primi-
tive stage in Norway. Patriotic men
and women became interested in the
plan of the young ladies, and $500 was
raised to enable them to go to Den
mark to study and practice horticul-
ture. Upon their return they gave a
short report of their work in bad, rug
ged rhyme. But behind this freak
was a seriousness and stubbornness
which forged straight ahead, and the
three ladies have secured possession OF
a suitable farm near the city where
they are busy practicing what they
learned in Denmark.