Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-08-15

Stockholm district as candidate for
member of the second chamber of the
| riksdag.
The chamber of commerce of Metz,
Germany, passed resolution in favor
of using iron ore from Lothringen in
place of the Swedish imports.
A political mass meeting held at
Tomelilla, SHAME and attended by 500
persons passed a resolution demanding
the Establishment Of the first chamber
of the riksdag and general suffrage
without restrictions.
NORWAY.
The Norwegian peace society is in
| process of dissolution. But the propa-
ganda of peace will be carried on with
| great vigor by the Social Democrats,
and the temperance people will keep
on hewing straight to the line
stretched by their apostle, Asbjorn
| Kloster.
Prof Hagerup. former premier of
| Norway, will ha " a wide field for
| agitating in favor ,sf one of his favorite
ideas, namely, International peace At
the London peace conference he met as
a member Of the Hague tribunal and of
the Nobel committee, and his future
home will be Copenhagen, where he
will represent Norway as minister to
Denmark, Holland and Belgium It is
obvious that his position will enable
him to serve the cause of peace eff
fectively by bringing the small states
of northern Europe, namely, Norway,
Sweden, Denmark, Holland and Bel
GUM closer together in the interest Of
international arbitration.
DR.. Adolf Jacobsen, chief veterinary
| inspector of Kristiania, who has been
inspecting American packing houses,
remarked that if his home government
acted upon his recommendation there
would be much more American canned
meat and barreled beef bought from
this country than heretofore. He saw
no reason, he said, to put any sort of
restrictions upon American meat
products bearing the government
stamp.
1t is said that the rural commune of
Trysil made a good bargain when it
bought tract of timber land for
100000. 1t will be easy to sell logs
for $4,000 a year for the next ten
years and still have vast amounts Of
timber left
In some places the object Of the
campaign workers is to have the voters
sign pledge to vote for certain cam
didates A strong newspaper proposes
that this practice be made an offence.
The Norwegians begin to realize that
the neutral zone" along the Swedish
border, where no forts are to be kept,
is blessing to Norway.
Consul VINO roa11 of IJo,,o,c,,,,a 1,o.
bought an English steamer Of 500
tons dead weight for 100000
While two boys were playing on st.
Hans Mountain in the city of Fred
rikstad, they rolled a rock down the
mountain side. and it struck the head
Of laborer named Herman Olsen,
killing him almost instantly.
At breakfast given to the royal
family at F'loien. near Bergen, Nor
wegian, Danish. and English flags were
offered to the little crown prince, but
he resolute1y took the Norwegian flag
and refused the others.
The Signal river, Nordland, sudden
ly flooded the valley through which it
runs, destroying the crops and cover
ing the fields with gravel
About a dozen newspaper editors
have been nominated for seats in the
storting.
Dean Chr. Brun, Of Bergen, has been
appointed bishop of Hamar.
Mrs Johanne Vogt died at the age
of IS years. She wrote many short
stories and some beautiful poems.
The customs receipts of the govern
ment are increasing as compared with
the figures for the same season in
1905.
Skarpskytten, Kristiania rifle club,
and the oldest one in the country has
just celebrated it's 57th anniversary.
Kaiser Wilhelm took long walks in
the vicinity of Molde, which has been
called 1.-The city Of flowers" and 1.-The
most beautiful town. in the world"
Norway imported 100 tons of bananas
in June. And meanwhile thousands of
tons of the finest wild berries go to
waste in Norway.
number of prominent men at
| Flare and Grimstad have commenced
to raise money, by public subscription,
for bautasten (stone monument) on
the grave of Terje Vixen, the hero of
Henrik Ibsen's greatest epic poem.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Lovland
is said to have been caught in a con-
tradiction. In a public address at
Drammen he declared that he had
never been a republican, and in an
interview at Hamar, last fall, he is re-
ported to have said that he had "al-
ways been republican,"
1t has been observed that the st.
Olaf students were received with
greater enthusiasm than the king and
queen in some cities.
The English word nomination. has
suddenly been introduced, by way of
America, in Norwegian politics. Have
the language purifiers been caught
mapping?
The manner in which King Haakon
and Queen Maud have been treated by
all classes of people on their great
tour of the country indicates that the
monarchy is not so unpopular in Nor
way as some people claim. The politi-
cal opponents Of the present cabinet
have taken the hint. They do not fire
straight at the monarchy, but are in
the habit Of devoting special attention
to the $250,000 a year which the Nor
wegians have to pay for the luxury OF
a king and whatever appertains there
to-