Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-06-13

The wedding presents from the
Duchess of Skane to Princess Ena. now
queen of Spain, were two antique silver
vases.
NORWAY.
The city Of Trondhjem is in a fever
ish condition on account of the COM
ing coronation.
About 200 Norwegians celebrated the
seventeenth of May in London. DR..
Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian minister
to England, made an address. and Ed
ward Grieg, the composer also made
a few remarks.
The first "bautasten" (stone monu-
ment) in memory of May II, 1914, has
been put up at Frognersateren, near
Kristiania.
The Norwegian geographical society
is going to award a gold medal to
Carl Lumholts, who has spent years
exploring the interior of Mexico.
The public schools of Kristiania have
10000 pupils.
There was a snow storm at Levanger,
May 81, and in the streets of Trond
hjem the snow was several inches deep
on the same day.
The seventh Of June was quiet
day, and the fact that it was not cele-
brated like the seventeenth of May will
no doubt be agreeable to the Swedish
people.
A young Frenchman has commenced
to write a review of Bjornson's works
for a French periodical.
The first tourists of the season ar
rived at Trondhjem May %. They
were two ladies and two gentlemen
from England who are spending the
season catching salmon in the Namsen
river.
The 81 Norwegians who were stay
ing at Carlsbad, Austria, the seven
teenth Of May celebrated the day in
such pleasant manner that they were
surprised themselves.
Labor is so scarce on the farms Of
Norway that some farmers are wonder
ing whether the time has come when
they will have to follow in the wake
porting hired help from Poland At
the same time hundreds, not to say
thousands, Of people are idle in the
great cities.
Ten Norwegian miners have been
hired by a Danish capitalist to go to
Greenland in search of metallic ores.
The University of Oxford, England,
has conferred the degree of doctor OF
philosophy upon Edward Grieg, the
composer. 1t is many years since
similar degree was conferred upon him
by the University of Cambridge.
The king and the queen will stop
over night at Kristiansund on their
way to the coronation.
Amtmand Graft, of Finmarken, has
has resigned on account of a charge OF
malfeasance in Office, and A. T. Urbye,
attorney of Tromso and Finmarken,
has been appointed amtmand of Fin
marken
Forty million Goldfish was the catch
of the season to May 10. The amount
of cod liver oil extracted was $4,000
barrels, and mention must also be made
of the 10000 barrels of spawn put up
for the market.
3. Kildal, former member of the
cabinet, has been appointed to sue
coed the late Alexander Kjelland as
It is expected that there will be no
real campaign in some storting dis
tricts at the coming election because
the present members of the stortins
will have no opposition.
A hot discussion is in progress in
Kristiania with regard to the sale of
the natural resources of the country
to foreigners, and the employment Of
foreign capital in general is receiving
attention at the same time. One of the
staunchest defenders of the use of
foreign capital is Mr.. Konow, a noted
manufacturer, whose skill as a debator
gives his opponents a chance to do
some robust thinking.
The body of Henrik Ibsen, the Nor
wegian poet and dramatist, who died
May %, was buried June 1 with every
demonstration of popular sorrow in
the cemetery attached to the Church
of the Holy Trinity. The weather was
bad, but the streets were lined with
black-garbed crowds, and the church,
church-yard and cemetery were filled
with a great cOncOurse of mourners.
The obsequies opened with service in
the Church of the Holy Trinity. The
mourners included King Haakon, the
cabinet ministers. members of the
Norwegian storting and representatives
Of artistic and scientific societies. A
long eulogistic funeral grafton was
delivered, to which the king listened
attentively. A procession was then
formed and the body of the great
writer was conveyed, amid strains Of
funeral music, to the graveside.
The storting has passed govern
ment bill which provides that for every
three dollars contributed by the work.
ingmen to the aid funds for the I'M
employed, the government shall con-
tribute one dollar.
The weather was as bright as It
could be the seventeenth Of May this
year. There was sunshine in the land,
and still more sunshine in the hearts
of it's people. It was the nappiest
seventeenth of May in the history of
Norway.
Lister and Mandal amt, in the ex-
IRENE south, is the only amt County,
that is not going to send any repre-
sentative to the coronation.
About $4,000 persons attended the
seventeenth of May demonstration at
Fastningspladsen, Kristiania. The
whole royal family was there. They
drove to the place in company with
Premier Nicholson like ordinary peo-
nle no soldiers or other uniformed men