Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-09-04

twenty-five years or more and had given
general satisfaction. They are all al
lowed to draw their salaries until the end
of the year.
NORWAY.
Dr. .Armauer Hansen, of Bergen, cele-
DRAFTED his sixtieth birthday anniversary
Auguth tenth, on which occasion bust
representing him. was unveiled. Dr.
Hansen was the discoverer of the leprosy
bacillus. .
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 ceme-
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
on the same subject says: I'VE 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
6S7S males and 4,O5S females, and 1880
of them came from the country, and 3,O41
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 46, 700 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
20Odth 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 Kr:stiania.
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 short
while the two hotels. the church, the
school house. the drug store and other
public buildings. including the postoffice
and the telegraph Office. were reduced to
ashes Eleven-twelfths of the town Is
burned down. Great despair prevails
among the people. who have neither food
nor shelter The damage on the burned
houses is estimated at about SITS, 900. The
$50 buildings of the town were insured
for $4OO 900. Houses to the value of about
SIS 900, were saved. Several public insti-
tutions lost their cash money records
etc.
A forest warden at Slemdal, Brats-
berg, was ordered to trace an elk in the
woods early in June. About one. thou
sand yards from his home he was para
lived by an 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 any human be-
ing. He managed to live partly on wild
berries, partly on food which he took at
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 stone slab and
cooked other kinds of food in 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
Norway exported 70 tons of canned
goods in 1881, and the export for. 1900
was 1900 tons. stavanger has always
been the great center of this industry.
~ Adolf Oien, of Trondhjem, commemor-
.ated the twenty fifth anniversary of the
opening Of his business as an independent
merchant by donating $2.7Oo to the aid
fund Of the merchants Of his city.
A girl who was moving hay at Cards
vixen, sondmore, struck humble bee
nest and in attempting to defend herself
against the insects. ran the point of her
scythe into her chest so that she bled to
death in few seconds. ,=ss s<$f
The hay crop is generally above the
average. and the weather was favorable
s during the haying season. But the other
crops are disappointing. In the early
summer the grain fields were rather TOD
thick and the dry weather was hailed
with JOY by the farmers. But as week
after week passed without rain, and the
heat became subtropical, the growth OF
q the straw was checked. and the ears did
not fill out we'll The potatoes are even
& in a worse condition than the grain, the
largest tubers being only Of the size 8o1
8 hens eggs. Nothing but abundant rain
and mild autumn can insure an aver
Il age crop OF potatoes. .5s
5@st st. Olafs festival at Trondhjem, was
celebrated as usual Rev. SWexelsen,
minister Of public instruction. preached
In the cathedral, and q mass meeting In
garden was well attended. The day
was commemorated IN Bergun by Sout-of-
door exercises and by divine services II
the sandvik church. Rev. Layik, OF Ho-
sanger. preaching n the pure Nor
wegian tongue