Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-12-07

completed to point opposite. Kares-
uando, which is located only about
6o (English) miles from Lake Kilpis-
jarvi. There is no reason to sup
pose that the work will be stopped
at it's present stage. If Russia should
follow this route Norway alone would
suffer. But there is another tempt
ing route, namely, the Lule and Ofo-
ten railway, and if this were chosen
Sweden would have to be invaded.
and Narvik, Norway, would be the
goal On the Atlantic coast.
NORWAY.
The word ''ski' is slowly entering
the vocabularies of the great nations
of the world. The English and Ger
man speaking nations have been usl ng
the word for decades past. Now the
turn seems to be coming to the Ro-
nance nations An Italian engineer
has invented pair of long. narrow
floats for travelling on the water, and
he calls them ''hydroskis." French
newspaper, containing a picture Of
them, called them ''skis aquatiqucs'
In these cases the word was used be-
cause the Italians and the French have
a fairly correct idea of it's meaning
The report of the committee of in
quiry in London, in case false impris-
onment: of Adolf Beck, Norwegian,
places practically the entire blame for
the miscarriage of justice upon the
judge, who excluded from Beck's trial
in 1896 all evidence favorable to the
accused and who refused to state
case for the consideration of the higher
court. The committee finds that if the
matter could have been brought be-
fore a higher court flaw IN the pro-
ceedings must have been discovered
and the conviction have been quashed
The report exonerates the police and
other officials from all charges of con-
spiracy, but remarks that it is an ex-
traordinary fact that in the trial of
the innocent man, Beck was convicted
through the ignorance of the police
and public prosecutor of the material
fact known to the home Office and the
prison authorities that Beck and Smith
were not the same person.
The Norwegians Of our day do not
shrink from discussing even the fun
damental principles on which our So
cial order is based In view of this
significant fact a rather large amount
of space is devoted to women's mass
mass meeting held at Flekkefjord for
the purpose of discussing proposition
to grant illegitimate children the right
of inheritance. Mrs. DR.. Christensen
made a lengthy address, and the fol-
lowing resolutions were passed by
large majority: I've wish an am
| phi 6cation of the present laws for the
purpose of giving greater protection to
illegitimate mothers and their chill
dren. But we do not wish, as a
rule, that the illegitimate child shall
be entitled to inheritance from it's
father and his relatives; for we are
convinced that such law would be
dangerous to and destructive of family
life. on which society is built; that it
would be detrimental to the morals of
the whole body social to such an ex-
tent that it could not be outweighed
by the immediate benefit to a few
children; and that such law would
always be an injustice to the wife and
the legitimate children"
The Norwegian press pronounced a
sincere eulogy on the services of Baron
Lagerheim upon his resignation as
minister of foreign affairs of Sweden.
The Norwegians will always be CRATE
tful to this man on account of his sue.
cessful efforts to pave the way for the
establishment of a separate consular
service for Norway.
The storting, against three votes,
granted pension of $27O a year to
the widow of Sivert Nielsen, the late
president of the storting.
J. Blackstad, attorney general of the
kingdom of Norway, died at Kristi-
ania, at the age of 70 years. While
riding on a street car to his Office in
the morning he suffered an appoplectic
stroke which put an end to his life in a
few minutes He held different pub
lie Offices for almost 40 years, begin
ming as bailiff in the extreme North.
A huge mass of rocks fell from a
height of several hundred feet upon
the Valdres railway near Etna, pull.
ing the track out of its place for a con-
siderable distance. The rocks were
started by the'earthquake.
Many members of the storting scored
the financial policy of the present cab
met. But when Premier Hagerup
challenged the gentlemen to propose
something else they became quiet.
Which lends color to the accusation
that they do not care to make them
selves responsible for what they said
by binding themselves to definite
policy.
So many of the cartridge shells used
IN the army have bursted that the
whole quantity of cartridges stored up
in the forts and armories had to be ex-
amined, so that the damaged ones
could be replaced by good ones
Five boats, whose crews averaged
four men, for each boat, were lost in
Vestfiord, Nordland. Two of the
beats were afterwards seen floating
about as wrecks -
The imports of wine to Kristianis
were only one-third as large during tbs
months Of March to September as dur
ing the Corresponding period of 1903
1.-THE decrease was due to the new tariff