The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-16


days after. Both animals were alive
and appeared to have suffered no in
jury. 49,.
While the disaster was terrible one,
such accidents are by no means un-
known in Norway. Most Of them, how
ever, have been caused by snowslides.
The year 1868 seemed to have been
fatal one in this respect. In Sogndal
one buried farm with every living
being thereon. Stryn, in Nordfjord,
was also devastated the same winter
by series Of snowslides, and about $50
persons were killed in Norway that
same year. Twelve lost their lives at
at Gjoerven on Feb. II.
AS far back as 171S there are rec
ords of deaths by snowslides. Thus on
March II Of that year a woman, her
son and daughter lost their lives at
Ytre Skarstein in Olden. The same
day eleven persons lost their lives from
the same cause at Sandal in. Stryn.
Feb. 5, 1855, a snowslide killed eleven
persons and threw twelve houses into
the water at Hellesether in Loendalen.
All these places are in the Nordfiord
district, and it must thus be the pe-
culiar construction of the wild noun
tain country that is the cause of such
accidents.
Over the farm of Ylvisaaker, in sogn-
dial, lies a huge piece Of rock which is
called Paalshelga, and which, for a
number of years has been threatening
! to fall.
The saying is that from olden time
there have been paid special tributes
block Of stone from falling, and the
| proprietor of the farm at Ylvisaaker
to this day pays a special. tax Of 3.62
kroner (about sly to Stedje church
tax that none of the other farmers
in the parish have to pay-and, besides,
he pays something to the neighboring
church at Kaupanger.
| 1t is said that one year, when the
tax was not paid, the split in the rock,
from W hich the piece Of rock will fall,
widened considerably.
The Contest with Sweden.
| Never since 1895 have the political
relations between Sweden and Norway
| about the separate consular service
question. The Swedes are unwilling to
continue negotiations on the subject in
manner satisfactory to the Norwe-
gians. Should the Norwegians accept
what the Swedes offer, they would only
have attained half their ambition, in
asmuch as the highest authority over
the Norwegian consuls would be the
minister Of foreign affairs, Swede.
What would be the use, it is asked, of
having separate Norwegian consuls if
the SWedes were to have authority over
them. This proposition is received with
resentment by the Norwegian govern.
ment and by the people Of Norway,
who stands united to a man on the ques.
ton, regardless of political creeds. The
newspapers say: "Norway stands
united as never before since 1914"
| The final result may still be satisfac-
tory, provided the majority Of the
members Of the Swedish riksdag take
a view Of the matter different from
that Of Premier Bostrom. Such is the
impression one CLEANS from the Nor.
wegian papers nowadays. They all seem
to be firm in their language as to Nor
ways rights, and they also all seem to
wish that they may be obtained in a
peaceable manner and in way sat
isfactory to everybody concerned.
| The society "Broderfolkenes Vel'' is
busy in both countries trying to make
the spirit of good-fellowship felt. It
is different in sport circles. For the
participation in the great sport meeting
| to be held at Stockholm, known as
"Nordiska Spelan" (northern games),