Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-12-09

r. The ore dock which the great mip-
ing company of Norrland- is -cGh-
structing at Narvik, the western ter
minus OF the Ofoten and Geilivare x
railway, will be s45 feet long and 100
feet high. The contents of the cars
may be dumped into the hold of one
steamer at the same time. But it
there are enough ships on hand a
whole trainload of ore may be UNI
loaded at once. The dock alone will
cost 100000, and the total cost OF
the improvements contemplated by
the mining company at Narvik may
exceed $2,OO0,O0O.
The peace society of the storthing
has elected Premier Hagerup as chair
man.
Edward Grieg's peer Gynt" was
played at a concert in Leipzig, and
Prof. Kretzchmar wrote the following
comment: ''More than Bjornson,
more than Ibsen, more than all Nor
wegian poets, painters and sculptors
combined, has Edward Grieg done for
the dissemination and understanding
of the genius of the North. He is the
main representative of Scandinavian
art in general. But greater than the
Norwegian and the patriot who
brings out with inimitable clearness
the essential and characteristic mo-
tives of the national music of his peo-
ple-stands the man and the master
who raises the natural material up
into higher spiritual spheres and
makes it subservient to great, free
IDEAS"
The herring catch of the season
was twice as large that of 1902.
An elderly lady has disappeared at
Farsund, and she is supposed to have
persisted in the sea.
Several thousand barrels of pota-
toes have been exported to England
this fall.
The new public school building at
Gjovik was dedicated Nov. IA. 1t is
a four story brick structure contain
ing 26 class rooms. The cost of the
institution is $4,000.
SWEDEN.
The number of patients at the sana-
forums established by means of
King Oscars jubilee fund was as fol-
lows Nov. 1 At Halahult, "a men
and SO women; at Osterasen, "a men
and "a women; and at Hessleby, s.
men and 60 women. At the same time
great number of petitions for adj
mission had been granted, and the
| petitioners were waiting for vacant
places at the sanatoriums.
The Monsteras and Asheda railway
company has discharged its stock of
! labcrers, about 400 all told, because
| the treasury of the company is emp
ty. The work of constructing the
road may be resumed at any time.
The top story of {. o. Wossen's
large warehouse in Sundsvall was de-
stroyed by fire, and the goods in the
lower stories were badly damaged by
smoke and water. There was an in
surance of $125,OOO on the property.
A representative convention at
Lund resolved to organize temper
ance alliance for Malmohus Ian, and
a committee representing five differ
ent associations was elected to draft
| a constitution.
Members of free churches were
elected as members of the parish
councils and the school boards in
Tegelsmora parish, Upsala diocese,
and in Karl Johans parish, Gothen-
burglar. The consistories declared
the elections null and void, but the
king quashed the decisions of the con-
sistories. This looks like a plain re-
hukc to the orthodox members of the
state church.
Hilmer Hyllander, the son of
school teacher at East Vemmeriof,
was refused admission to the public
normal school at Lund because he
could not take part in the gymnastic
and military exercises on account of
heart trouble. The young mans
father referred the matter to the
hing, but all in vain.
a German engineer and dozen la
borers of the same nationality have
been boring for coal at Astorp.
J. Erikson of Rydholm has promis-
ell to donate $1,000 to a proposed an
1iouarian society for the southern
Fart of Elfsborg Ian.
The farmers of Gard, Skane, COM
plain that they cannot obtain enough
Hired help though they are in the
habit of paying an able-bodied man
from $s5 to 500 year and board.
Those who are in favor of a thor
ough revision of the election laws of
Sweden are in a position to drum up
some very curious arguments. Here
is one of those arguments: A man
who pays no local taxes has no right
to vote for members of the second
chamber of the riksdag. Such man
may rent out land owned by himself
to others, and still pay no local taxes,
because the man who rents land pays
the taxes. A man who owns real es-
tate to the value of at least $21, 600
: may be elected member of the ''sen-
ate,' or first chamber of the riksdag.
Now, if a man of the latter class rents
: out all his land he cannot vote for
members of the second chamber OF
the riksdag. Such a man is not a
mere possibility, an academical man
Of straw constructed for the sake of
argument. In the year 1900 there
were actually % persons that were
! eligible to the first chamber of the
, riksdag, but who had no right to
vote for members of the second cham
Der.