Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-03-07
Queen Sophie, accompanied BY
Prince Eugen, has gone to southern

EuEOpc.
The Swedish carvette Freja mad to
remain at Constantinople for some
thine on account Of a. dozen cases OF
typhoid fever on board the vessel. The
crew was taken ashore while the yes
sci was thoroughly disinfected.
No less than three different parties
are figuring on publishing a French
translation Of Olof Hogbergs 1.-THE
Great WRATH" or 1.-The Erpic Of Norr-
land" One of the three parties thinks
it would be a good plan to have the
work illustrated.
1t has been demonstrated that the
three crowns We're used on the royal
arms of Sweden long before they were
used in any other country. This means
that it is perfectly proper that they
should remain there in spite OF the
dissolution Of the union.
Some of the oats bought for the
Norwegian army last summer have
been sold in southern Sweden.
NORWAY.
Bjornsons stories have Just been
published in German in a complete
edition comprising four volumes. This
is the first complete edition OF its kind
ever published in German. The trans
lation was made by Mrs. Glare
Greveries Mjoen.
The farmers of Verdalen, north OF
Trondhjenl, are exporting so much hay
and grain to Sweden that freight cars
had to be borrowed in Sweden to keep
the goods moving
The Norwegian Tourist Club has
voted Ole Loen, law student, 1886
for constructing a tourist road from
Bodal to Bodalsater and Bodalsbra at
Loen, Nordfjord. Bodal, with it's steep.
lofty mountains, roaring cataracts and
numerous glaciers, is one of the widest
and most romantic valleys of Norway.
Dr. Scharffenberg, Of kristiania, is
coming out very strongly in favor Of
total abstinence, and as he is a clever
dlsputant several parties that have
tried to brush his arguments away feel
rather sore.
The storting, by a vote Of IS to SIS,
rejected bill for granting salary
of $500 to Captain Otto Sverdrup, the
Arctic explorer. The government sug-
gested that this be the last amount
given to Sverdrup. But the storting
retorted that the $500 which was
voted him last year should be the last
appropriation. It might be added that
Captain Sverdrvp does not need the
money.
About 900 persons are engaged in the
manufacture of lucifer matches in
Norway. No less than three fourths Of
the production. is exported. When the
cost of the imported raw materials has
hoa 1nI, 1Sn1 {11 %
amount to 100000 u year.
The surplus Of Skienfjorden Kredit
bank for 1905 was $73,440. OF this
amount $48,600 was distributed as a
six per cent dividend to the stock
holders.
The foreign steamers known as
floating hotels" are cutting very seri-
ously into the tourist traffic in western
Norway. AS counter move two
steamship companies operating on the
west coast have made a new arrange
ment by which tourist by paying
certain rate per day: may spend the
time on any steamer belonging to the
company or board at any hotel where
the steamers touch. This plan will
enable the tourist to tell beforehand
what his expenses will be for a certain
length of time, and as he proceeds on
his way he can stop as long as he
sees fit at any place.
ALT Bang, a Kristiania engineer,
made the following statements in a
public lecture: Norway has 825 man.
ufacturing establishments which pro-
duce chemicals, machinery, metals and
textiles. They employ 29,100 persons,
and the value of their products is
$26,000,000 a year. The imports of
goods of the same kinds amount to
$22,440, which is only ID per cent less
than the home production. If Norway
could supply this item at home it
would give employment to $4,000 per-
sons and support population of 1O0,-
900, which would cut down emigration
to that extent.
The people of Norway spend an
nually $24,30O,0O0 for milk, butter and
cheese; $13,500,0OO for bread; $17,-
100000 for meat and pork; $4,000, 900
for strong drinks: $6,75O,OO0 for coffee;
$5,20O,000 for coffee and syrups; So
100000 for potatoes; $2,5O0,O0O for
tobacco; and $1,S00.000 for fruit. The
military defenses require about $780,
900 a year, and the schools about So
100000.
The government has proposed the in
PRODUCTION of the zone rate" system on
the railways. This means that the rate
per kilometer will be lower the greater
the distance Travelled.
About 10000 tame reindeer are kept
in the mountains between Valders,
Sogn and Hallingdal. The returns must
be satisfactory, for the owners have
just bought TOO deer at Roros for the
purpose Of taking them down to the
former place. Four hundred animals
will also be bought by parties in Tele-
marker, so that in a few years the
mountains Of Telenlarken may TEEN
with reindeer.
Erik Harildstad. a blind boy who is
attending a school for the blind in
Kristiania, has published a collection
Of poems which prove that. the author
has a "poetical vein" The name of
the collection is Spring Flowers, First
Wreath
A strong man of the age of % years
died of cerebro- spinal meningitis at
Jonset after two days illness. At
Tolgen, a neighboring settlement, an
other man succumbed to the same
dread disease
Prof. Ording, whose appointment to
a chair in the theological faculty Of
the university caused such stir be-
cause he is said to hold non-Lutheran
views, has published a pamphlet on
THE Difference Between Lutheran and
Reformed Christianity
Many Norwegian laborers, mostly
fishermen, spend the summer season in
Iceland, where an able bodied man is
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