Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1901-01-04
DEVILS LAKE INTER OCEAN, FRIDAY, JANUARY q. 1901,

The apple crop of southern Norway
was SO abundant that many farmers
have fed considerable quantities to
the hogs. The pear crop was also
way above the average.
The census is going to take place in
the night between Dec. I'd and Sd. The
estimated population is {, 200, 600.
Mr.. Dalgas, the chief authority on
tree planting in Denmark, has visited
the most important spruce and pine
plantations in southwestern Norway.
He says that the mountain slopes of
southern Norway are splendidly suited
for timber culture, even more SO than
the Danish heaths.
The newspapers are still engaged in
discussing the word '.hell" in the Sec
ond article of the Apostolic Creed.
The theological faculty receives both
blame and praise for admitting that
1.-THE kingdom of the dead" would be
more correct, but still favoring the re-
tention of the word 'hell."
The government has instructed DR..
Sigurd Ibsen, the chief clerk of the
foreign division of the department of
the interior, to write an exposition of
the relation between the consular and
the diplomatic service. Verdens Gang
holds that this is the first step towards
settling a question which is causing
no end of friction between the two
countries.
The Bank of Norway is about to in
crease it's capital by $500, 600, and it's
note issue by almost So, 600, 600. Four
new branches will also be established.
Three of the retiring members of
the cabinet have been we'll provided
for. Hoist has been made governor of
Kristians amt, Nysom director general
of the state railways and Lochen asso-
ciate judge of the supreme court. But
Thilesen was dismissed ever without
a pension.
The Norwegian Bible society has
issued its Saith annual report. The
number of copies of the Bible or parts
of it published during the past year
was 50, 992, and the whole number of
copies published since 1916 is s65, ISL.
Chr. Christophersen, whose failure
caused a series of financial disasters in
southern Norway, is so i'll that the
legal proceedings against him have
been suspended.
There were only three business fall
ures in Kristiania during the month
OF October, while the average monthly
number is six.
A boy and a girl lost their lives in
a peculiar manner in Tysfjord. They
uoro am ~ n1@en - lo - -
ring, and a whale struck their boat
with his tail, breaking a hole through
its bottom and tipping it over.
1t is stated on fairly good authority
that Premier Steen intends to re-
sign in the near future.
Tonnes Torgersen Haugeland of Hit
tero is dead. He was born Sept. %,
1895, and at his death was certainly
the Oldest man in Norway.
c. N. Anderson's gold mining expe-
dition to Finmarken has closed its
work for the third season. About 80
men were engaged last GUNNER, and
they dug gold to the value of So, 700.
Most of the time, however, was spent
In removing a moraine everything the
collaborating bed Of an old r~ivulet.
Gold is found along this bed for miles,
but no one has been able to locate the
native rock from which the gold was
washed away. The camp of the ex-
petition is located on the Sargejok, a
tributary to the Tana river. The dis
lance to the next neighbor is so Eng
lish miles, and the provisions are
hauled by reindeer from Alien, a dis
lance of 200 miles. Mr.. Anderson is
confident that when he is ready to be-
gin gold-washing in earnest, gold will
be found in paying quantities. Hav-
ing spent 20 years in the gold fields of
Montana, Colorado and Alaska, he
4 ought to be an authority on the sub
ject of gold digging. =
Thorwald Sletten, who was found
guilty of killing his foster-mother, has
been denied a new trial in spite of
Bjornson's assertion that his guilt was
''psychologically impossible" But as
the evidence was purely circumstan-
tial the government is expected to
commute the sentence,
The custom house receipts in Kris
tiania will be about $500, 900 less this
year than last. This reduction is due
to the hard times, the people being
compelled to cut down their expenses
in the line of imported luxuries.
DENMARK.
The car of Russia has ordered q
new pleasure yacht from Burmeister
q Vain. The new steamer is to be
used for navigation on the Neva river.
h which was h,,i1t nv
Burmeister & Vain a few years ago, is
used in the Black Sea.
A syndicate of Danish and Swedish
bankers has begun negotiations with
American bankers for a 81, 600, 600 loan
for the Copenhagen municipality.
Emil Poulsen, the greatest living
actor on the Danish stage, has for