Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-12-06

Skaraborg regiment has been ap-
pointed public peat engineer for the
year 1903.
1t was stated in these columns
some time ago that legal proceedings
were to be Instituted against King
Oscar for the purpose of recovering
certain documents which once be-
longed to Helga de la Brache. The
plan was failed by the municipal
court of Stockholm, which ruled that
the king of Sweden cannot be reached
by lawsuit of that kind. But P. A.
Johansson, the attorney of the would
be plaintiff, has appealed the case to
the Svea court, arguing that para
graph of the constitution, which the
municipal court of Stockholm cited
in support of it's own ruling, does not
apply to this particular case.
So many cars loaded with provi-
slons for the Norrland sufferers have
arrived at Vannas that every foot of
track is crowded at that point, and
still the goods cannot be moved with
any degree of regularity.
Deer and hares have been killed in
great numbers in the country around
Holmeja this fall, and most of the
game goes to Germany.
The state instructor in the prepara-
ton of peat for fuel has been in
structed to explore the peat bogs Of
Norrland next summer; the instruc-
tor in milking has been ordered to
give course in milking at Pitea and
another at Lower Lulea; and the
public instructor in fish culture has
been ordered to make Investigations
next summer with a view to the inn
provement Of the fisheries in the riv-
ers of Norrland. This shows that the
government is bent on developing
some other Norrland resources than
those of the mines and the forests.
August Strindberg, the author, will
soon remove to Germany again, and
he intends to stay there for some
time.
Scandinavians residing in Duisburg,
Rheinland and Westphalia, Germany,
have commenced to raise money for
the Norrland' sufferers.
King Oscar has given a complete
sample of the uniform and outfit of
NORWAY.
The journeymen tailors' union Of
Kristiania, by vote of 1922 against 4,
has decided to reject the old scale of
The present scale, which has been in
force since 1896, is claimed to be too
complicated. There are, for instance,
twelve different prices for sewing q
coat. The members of the union are
paying ~ cents a week each into q
strike fund.
The city of Holmestand has celebra-
ted the 150th anniversary of the pro-
mitigation of it's charter. It's ship
ping was In a more fourishing busi-
ness fifty years ago than now, but
now it is the chief commercial of a
large and rich extent of country.
Valuable veins of copper ore have
been discovered at Laksefjord and
Porsanger, Finmarken. Some of the
veins are five feet thick and extend
for a distance of three (English)
miles. There are waterfalls and
harbor close by.
Costberg and Myrvang have intro
duced a civil marriage bill in the
odelsthing, one of the branches of
the storthing.. The main points of the
bill may be thus summarized: A man
and "a woman may become husband
and wife by appearing before no.
tary public at the place where one or
both of them reside and, in the pres
ences Of two witnesses, declaring that
they want to be united in matrimony,
whereupon the notary public shall de-
clare them to be 80 united. The king
shall appoint notary public for
each parish to perform this function.
It must be proved beforehand that
the contracting parties are legally en-
titled to become husband and wife.
The present divorce laws shall be in
force when both parties desire to be
divorced. Moreover, divorce may be
| secured by q royal decree in the fol-
lowing cases: When one Of the par
ties has been sentenced to imprison-
| ment for eight years or more, or has
broken the marriage VOW Of fidelity,
or has abused the other party, or has
| failed to perform plain duties to sup
port the other party, or has been q
spendthrift,> or has been . drunkard,
| or is mentally unsound. Divorce cases
| shall b wholly taken out Of the
courts.
Burglars entered King Oscars cot
tage Of Bygdo. But a. the cottage was
almost eaPay oil tho furniture having
been taken back to the palace when
the king removed from the cottage.
the booty was but meager. The burg
lars next tried to cater the cottage
next TO that Of the king, but were
surprised by the forest warden OF the
royal park. They succeeded in e.
Gaping, however, after having cut in
the warden with . knife.