Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1901-09-06
NORWAY.

NORWAY.
DR.. Armauer Hansen, Of Bergen, cele-
brated his sixtieth birthday anniversary
Auguth tenth, IN which occasion a Dust
representing him, was unveiled. DR..
Hansen was the discoverer Of the leprosy
bacillus.
A monument has been erected on the
grave Of Rev. Heyerdahl, a member Of
the constitutional convention of Eds
void. His grave is located at Gran
terry.
The national convention of the Nor
wegian socialists yielded somewhat on
the question of taxation. Their old plat
form demanded the Establishment Of all
indirect taxes" while the new paragraph
en- the same subject says: w demand
the greatest possible reduction Of indi-
rect taxation Their demand for high
er taxes on untitled, tillable land and
on vacant city lots, proves that the work
of Henry George on single tax has not
been wasted on the Norwegian socialists.
The whole number Of persons who emf
grated from Norway in 1900, was 1881,
which is almost twice the number for
each Of the few past years. There were
6,s7S males and 4,o5S females, and 1880
of them came from the country, and 3,041
from the cities and towns.
Hamar has 1,7O9 voters.
Kragero has no saloons (samlag). But
Stathelle has one. The keeper of the
latter sold liquors in Kragero nearly
every day. The local court fined him
$50 on the assumption that he sold his
goods in Kragero, where no liquors
should be retailed. But the supreme
court reversed the decision on the ground
that the goods were sold at Stathelle to
parties residing in Kragero.
Norway exported $500 tons Of ice in
July.
Some money was raised a number of
years ago for the erection Of a monu-
ment in honor of Peter Dass, the poet
of Nordland. Aug. 26, 1907. will be the
2O0dth anniversary Of his death. Alsta-
hong parsonage is mentioned as the most
suitable location for the monument.
Jacob B. Bull has issued an appeal.
to the Norwegian people to collect his
torical data from their neighborhoods as
a means of preserving what would other
wise be forgotten and lost in the busy
hum Of modern life. in Kristiania.
Farsund, Aug. ia little after ten
o'clock last night, fire broke out in the
baggage room of Lehne's hotel. The fire
spread with great rapidity, and in q short
while the two hotels, the church, the
school house. the drug store and other
public buildings, including the postoface
and the telegraph office, were reduced to
ashes. El~even-twelfths Of the town il
burned down. Great despair prevails
among the people. who nave neither food
nor shelter. The damage on the burned
houses>is estimated at about STE, 900. The
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for $500, 900. Houses to the value of about
$25, 900, were saved. Several public insti-
%tutions lost their cash money, records,
etc.
A forest warden at slemdal, Brats-
berg, wa ordered to trace an elk in the
woods early in June. About one thou
sand yards from his home he was para
lyzed by ar epileptic fit and could not
move for several days. Being a very
timid character, he did not dare to face
his superior and spent seven weeks with
out communicating with n human be-
ing. He managed to live partly on wild
berries, partly on food which he took at
farm houses when the inmates were
away, being careful to leave a reason
able cash payment In place of the food.
He was at last betrayed by his footsteps
and traced to his Kitchen" where he
had baked his bread on a stone slab and
cooked other kinds Of food in a tin pail.
When found, he. was so feeble that he
could not walk without. aid. The poor
fellow was very glad when he found out
that he would not lose his job on account
Of his failure to perform his duty.
A factory for the preparation Of peat
for fuel, has been built in Lien, Gud-
brandsdalen, and 500, 900 bricks of peat
have been prepared as the output for the
first season.
Norway exported 70 tons Of canned
goods in 1881, and the export for 1900
was 1900 tons. S%tavanger has always
been the great center of this industry.
Adolf Oien. Of T~rondhjem, commemor-
ated the twenty-ffthe~ anniversary Of the
opening of his business as an Independent
merchant by donating s2,70O to the aid
fund of the merchants of his city.
A girl whoswas moving hay at Cards
vixen, Sondmore, struck a humble bee
nest and in attempting to defend herself
against the insects. ran the point Of her
scythe into her chest so that she bled to
death In a few seconds.
!. The crown prince attended the Nor
wegian field maneuvers in person, arriv-
ing in Norway Aug. 80, and returning
to Sweden Sept. /.