Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-11-04
NORWAY.

public auction at Tromso to the Ven
ture Corporation, London, for $17,-
600. An American made bids, but he
finally withdrew. The property was
mortgaged to the purchaser for $780,
600. The buildings are insured for
$4,000. About $275,O0O has been ex-
pended on the enterprise since 1898.
Work will be resumed as soon as
some burnt buildings have been re-
placed by new ones.
The budget of the government for
the coming fiscal year calls for to-
tai expenditure of 25,7o4, 900, which
is $S91,o0 less than the appropria-
tons for the current year.
Jacob Ihlen, one of the most pro-
minent lawyers in the country, died
at the age of 70 years.
Gustav Vigeland, the young sculp-
tor, has been modelling bust of King
Oscar during his recent stay in Kris
tiania.
The government has resolved that
Norway shall be officially repre-
sented at the St. Louis worlds fair.
Sandefgord will remain "dry'' for
the next five years, the number of
votes cast being less than one-half
of the number of voters.
The government has proposed an
appropriation of 100000 for new for
tifcations in Nordland.
A mysterious knocking was claim
ed to be heard under the house at
Syversrud, tenant farm belonging
to Rolstad, Ness parish, Romerike,
and it scared away both man and
beast, excepting two cats which stub
bornly refused to join the exodus.
I. Rekstad, prosaic fellow who went
to the scene to write up the mys-
terious manifestation for the press,
hung around the premises for several
days. But he declares most empha-
tically that he heard never a sound
issuing out from under the ground.
The new cabinet is constituted as
follows: Professor Hagerup, pre-
mier and minister of justice. Sigurd
Ibsen, a son of Henrik Ibsen, the
poet and dramatist, Norwegian min
!, lister of state at Stockholm. Rev.
Hans Nielsen Hauge, minister of &C.
clesiastics and instruction. NJ.
Schoening, minister of commerce.
Burger Kildal, minister of finance.
NJ. Hansen, minister of public works.
NJ. Mathison,, minister of agriculture.
Lieutenant Colonel Strumstad, min
;o4o 90 ,ol
builder, and M. Vogt, lawyer, minis
tiers of state for Norway in the coun-
Gil of state sitting at Stockholm.
A large number of ready-made cot
tages are exported from southern
Norway to South Africa.
Conrad lanyard of Kristiania has
just imported 315 tons of tobacco
from America. The customs duties
on this consignment were $4,000.
Miss Bokken Lasson sang at the
celebration of the birthday of the
queen of Wurtenberg, and "she scor-
ed tempestuous success" She was
afterward invited to supper at the
palace.
The city of Moss will have saloons
another five years, only 1884 out of
a total of $500 votes having been
cast against the samlag.
The silver mines at Krongsberg,
which for several years have been
run by the government at loss, are
now paying their way, and surplus
is confidently expected.
A German syndicate is endeavoring
to crowd the English out of the
Scandinavian coal market.
A Bergen paper maintains that the
minister of. the cult and of. public
instruction. ought to be a inguist
on. account of the confusion of
tongues in the public schools, the
competing languages being Norwe-
gian-Danish and pure Norwegian.
The young pine trees have been in
jured, the smallest ones even killed,
over a large tract of timber land in
,Gudbrandsdalen. The injury is said
to have been caused by the unfavora-
BILE weather of the summer of 1902.