Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-05-23
NORWAY.

| About 5000 tame reindeer are kept
IN the mountains around Valders.
Norwegian artists We're well repre-
scented at an art exhibition in Berlin,
Germany. "
| The committee on military affairs
! propo ses an appropriation of 1920, 900
for disposing of the ordinance removed
/ from the neutral zone created by the
| treaty of Karlstad.
Eilert Mehl, an artist who excels in
painting animals. is going to- spend the
warm season in Spitzbergen. where he
expects to divide his time between
painting and hunting :
Peter Storlihoug was crushed to
death between two empty railroad cars
at Hommelviken, near Trondhjem.
"hlle he was engaged in unloading coal
| from steamer.
Dr. b: Hansteen has made a. series of
experiments which he claims to have
demonstrated that reindeer moss can
ne made nutritious and not unpala-
table food.
The Amt of Nedenes has bought the
holt parsonage, which is to be changed
! INTO an agricultural school. The price
| paid was $4,000.
During the first three months Of this
year 3,O44 tons Of hay was exported
from the country around Trondhie1n to
l. Sweden.
! Sixteen prominent Chinese officials
nave been staying in Norway to study
| the people and the products Of the
! country for the purpose of closing a
treaty with nation that has demon
strate1 its ability to settle an interna-
tlonal dispute without war.
The question of making better use Of
the tillable soil of Norway has been
! thoroughly discussed in the storting.
and to judge by the general tenor of
the discussion the state government
may in some novel manner compel the
| owners Of untitled soil to till it them
selves or to have it transferred to 9TH
er people who are willing to do SO. In
other words, the government may in
terfere with vested rights" for the de-
velopment Of the agricultural resources
of the country.
The church Of Holding Denmark, has
a very beautiful and costly chasuble
messehage), which is said to have
! once been the property of the Trond-
MEM cathedral Bishop Wexelsen
VINO is going to crown the king, wrote
to the eleventh council Of Holding.
asking whether he could buy or Dor
| row 1t for use at the coronation, The
answer was, that the vestment could
not be sold, but it might be loaned to
! be used at the coronation. 1t was
loaned once before to an exposition in
IrOndhjem. The Norwegians wish to
! lind out how the chasuble become the
property of the Holding church
The city Of NAmsos has voted a. loan
! OF $4,000 to a new railway connecting
the city with the great railway system
| of the country.
A church convention for the diocese
! OF kristiania came out very strongly
against the heresies of the theological
faculty Of the university and series
! of resolutions were passed, demanding,
among other things, the right of the
(state) church to control it's own at
fairs on orthodox principles; a ma
tional church convention to agree on
definite demands; the right of a con-
election of it's pastor; more lay preach
ing; private instruction for young men
who intend to become preachers; and
the election Of members of the stor-
ting who are known to be in favor
| of the demands of the orthodox church
people of Norway. About 500 persons
voted at the convention, and the reso-
lutions We're adopted almost unani-
mously.
The city council Of Trondhjem has
resolved to spend $4,000 OH decorations
for the coronation festivities
The house in which Peter Dass. the
great Nordland poet and preacher,
lived, at Alstahoug, was partly blown
down a few days ago.
Bjornson is pleased with the new
king, and he said to a reporter: "rhose
men who procured for our people such
good ruler deserve thanks and
: honor
The Norwegian lagthing has passed
bill prohibiting foreigners from fish
ing in Norwegian waters except when
hired by Norwegians who are backed
by Norwegian capital.
A monument of Nordvaak, the com
poser, was unveiled in Berlin Nav II.
Edward Grieg had composed a march
for the occasion.
An organized gang Of young thieves
has come to grief in Kristia:ia. 1t was
started at an outing last fall, regular
laws being adopted for q just dis
tribution of the booty. Over score
of persons were connected with the
gang. 1t was drink that caused a sud
den downfall of this Estate within the
state Two Of the members were so
drunk that they commenced to quar-
rel about the distribution Of the booty
OH the street.
The committee Of ways and means
proposes the repeal of an old law
against government lotteries The COM
1nittee does not advocate a govern
ment Lottery. but the proposition seems
to point that way.
The Fredrikshald Savings Bank has
donated $4,000 to the local Y NJ. C.. A..
enabling the association to buy fine
building and large garden.
The cabinet has proposed bill abol-
fishing a law Of 1896, which provided
that Swedish travelling merchants
should be exempted from; the tax
which other foreign travelling mer-
! chants have to pay.
In the city of Stavanger as we'll as
in the neighbo:ing settlements servant
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