Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-11-12

condition. In many localities the
teacher is expected to take care of a
class of 100 or more children.
King Oscar has been summoned to
appear in court in connection with
documents belonging to- the late Hell
ga de Ia Brache, said to be in his
possession. Helga, who was the
daughter of the dethroned King
Gustavus Adolphus w. died some
years ago. Her legatee now demands
the delivery of papers received by
Hing Oscars father from Helga
These papers are understood to be of
an interesting historical character.
A new Scandinavian Seamen's home
has been opened in Hull, England.
One hundred sheep persisted in a
snow storm on the Osa mountains,
Finmarken.
o. L. skattebol has been elected
to succeed Prof. Hagerup as chair
man of the central committee of the
Conservative party.
Admiral Borresen has been testing
his dirigible torpedo at Horton. The
torpedo was aimed IS degrees to one
side, but the STEERING gear worked so
we'll that the torpedo hit the target.
The ffty-second storthing re-
elected C. C. Brewer as president by
"a votes, Prof. Hagerup receiving "a
votes. f. A. Eiljedal was reelected
vice-president by g. votes. The
odelsthing reelected Mayor S. A. B.
Arctander as president, Il. K. Liesto(
as vice-president, each receiving 40
votes. The lagthing reelected as
president H. ]. Horst by % votes, and
elected F. I. Fors as vice-president
by Is votes.
The budget of expenses for the next
year, April 1, 1903, March 81, 1904,
aggregates $z6,750,0OO, which is $751;
500 below. the budget for the current
year. The so-called extraordinary ex-
penditures have been cut down from
$3,S4O,00o to $2,5so,oo0. It is expected
that the railways, the liquor traffic,
the inheritance tax and the post
Office department will show hand
some increase, while the receipts from
the customs duties are expected to
fall at least $4,000 below those of the
current year.
Edv. Kristiansen warns his coun.
trymen against insuring their lives in
the Independent Order of Foresters
of Canada.
! Grand Hotel in Kristiania was sold
in May, 1899, to C. A. V. Elk, for a
little over 100000. OF the cash
payments $4,000 was to be paid June
| II, 1899, and the contract stipulated
| that in case rlr. Elk failed in this par
| ticular the sellers should keep the
$4,000 if the deal miscarried. The
sellers received 49,, 400 in the course
| of time, whereupon they notified Elk
| that they considered the contract to
sequent negotiations failed to effect
| final settlement, and the proprie-
tors demanded $21 900, the difference
between the $4,000 and the $32, 400.
The municipal court of Kristiania de-
cided the question in favor of the
proprietors and made Mr.. Elk pay
$67.5O in expenses, besides the $751;
600.
The postal money orders received
from America during the first half of
this year amounted to 1851, 300, while
the amount going in the opposite di-
| rection was only $53,440.
The American company which is
making preparations for working the
Cumberland iron mines employs 1900
men, and the work is progressing
rapidly. Four steam shovels and 500
men are engaged in cutting through
ridge for the railway at Guldsmedvik.
Hallingdal is one of the few To-
calities where the crops are good this
year.
The extension of the railway from
Sunnan (some distance north of
Trondhjem), the northern terminus
of the great railway system of Nor
way, to Risvik, by way of Snaasen
and Grong, will cost over ST., 100000.
The distance is not quite 200 Eng
lish) miles.
The whole number of young peo-
pie confirmed in the different churches
of Kristiania this fall was 1867, of
whom 1902 were girls and s65 boys.
It is twenty-five. years since Gustav
Storm was appointed professor at the
University of Norway. He is a thor
ough-going scholar, and he has pub
lished about seventy books and es-
says, mostly on the medieval history
of his country.
Forest Inspector Dahl reports that
! ring of q certain kind of glue
| smeared around the trunk of tree
| will protect the tree from worms.
''The Hotel World recently con-
| tanned an editorial in which the Nor
wegian hotels were severely criticized,
| and the paper predicts that unless
there is general improvement in the
food served as well as in it's pre-
! paration the tourist traffic is bound
to languish in spite of the grandeur
of the scenery of the country.
Captain Otto Sverdrup's book on
his Arctic expedition will be ready
from the press February next. About
that time Sverdrup is going to make
a trip to London and Copenhagen.
| Alexander Kjelland, the new amt
man of Romsdal, who was once count
ed among the leading authors of Nor
way, has promised to write some
thing for Christmas publication.
The department of justice has de-
cided to employ number of con-
victs on the farm next summer. This
practice has given satisfactory re-
suits in Denmark. F..
/ A dasf1nctiuo in1oof oallad Gn;na