Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-05-06

ing figures for the previous year.

ing figures for the previous year.
Almost $4,000 has been raised by
voluntary contributions for the elab-
Grafton of the scientific rsult of Cap
tain Otto Sverdrup's Arctic expedi-
ton.
About 1900 Norwegian exporters
and importers have signed an agree
ment to patronize the Norwegian
companies which carry freight be-
tween Norway and Germany.
Bjornson has written a lengthy
| poem to Grieg, the composer, and it
will be sung at the latter's sixtieth
birthday, next summer.
The storthing has voted a regular
appropriation of 1851, $3.50 for the
! army.
Prof. Heusler is giving course of
lectures on Henrik Ibsen at the uni-
| versity of Berlin.
The Berlin Tageblatt recently con-
tanned almost a column about Nor
wegian emigration. 1t is limited that
! the Canadian agent Whalen, who
, acted as agent and preacher combin-
ed, might have been checked by the
! authorities.
Bjornson takes the Leftist national
; convention to task for adopting in its
platform a demand for separate
; minister of foreign affairs for Nor
way. He holds that the consular SER
vice question is enough to keep the
! Norwegians busy for some time to
come. At the same time he says that
the Swedes are "a slow but sensible
people," who in the course of time
may realize that it would be a good
; thing for Norway to have minister
of commerce. Finally he calls atten-
-; ton to the fact, that the two nations
: are living in political union which
has no counterpart in the world, and
he trusts that they will be able to
; develop this union to their own satis-
| faction and benefit even if they have
no pattern to 60 by.
| The statement that the gold mines
! at Eidsvold will be abandoned for
| good seems to have been rather pre-
mature. The matter will not be set
tled~until the stockholders convene in
| London. Another statement bearing
on the same subject is incorrect. The
mines are not empty" but large
masses of ore have not even been
! touched. The running expenses, how
, ever, have been so heavy that the
company must either abandon the
| mines or raise the capital stock.
The Cavalier, Kristiania sailing
! vessel loaded with ice, was so badly
damaged in the North Sea that it
was abandoned by it's crew. AS it app
! preached the coast of Upland, Dem
mark, some Danish fishermen cap
tured and anchored it late one even
| ing short distance from the shore.
They intended to hire tug boat and
take it to some harbor in the morn
| ing. But when they were ready to
resume operations black trawling
steamer appeared on the scene, and
the main before they had time to in.
ferfere. The trawler was supposed
! to belong to Germans.
About $50 tailors struck for higher
wages in Kristiania.
The seals have. commenced to dis
appear from many fjords in Finmark-
en-, and the fishermen are fairly suc-
cessful.
About 100 Mormon missionaries are
at work in Norway. It is SAID that
they have induced about 500 Norwe-
gian girls to emigrate to Utah this
year.
The total catch Of Goldfish up to
| April II was 100000 fish as COM
pared with 100000 fish for the same
period in 1902. The fish are small and
lean.
When ''Knighthood Was in Flower
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