Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-09-19
NORWAY.

The Social Democrats published
campaign leaf1et containing the for
lowing information: During the past
thirteen years the Norwegian people
has paid out for the army and navy
$71,820,000. Add the interest on tho
millions borrowed for military pur-
poses, and you have $4,000 for every
day, and $675 for every hour of the
past thirteen years. Look at these
figures, workingmen! Sixteen thou
sand two hundred dollars day is more
than what 10000 laborers' families get
people pay 1924 every day as in
terest on the public debt This is
more than what 10000 laborers' fam
lilies have to live on. These are some
of the results Of the policy of the old
parties. They call it order, simplicity,
and economy in the administration of
the affairs Of the state The voters
have to endorse or reject this admin
istration. You are not asked to vote
for Or against the government. You
are asked to vote for Or against the
economic madness under which the
people are signing"
Kristiania had 1868 voters at the
recent elections, and 27,767, or "a per
cent of Them cast their votes. Only
81 per cent of the voters cast their
votes at the elections of 1903.
Verdens Gang pleads for complete
REIMBURSEMENT of the political parties
with the view of downing the Social
lists.
The pot herring" season is we'll
under way, and the result up to Aue.
Is was satisfactory. The fish were ex-
ceptionally fine at the different fishing
grounds.
Ole Ravna, the Lapp who accom-
panied Fridtjof Nansen on his trip
across Greenland, died at Porsanger.
The production of artificial fertilizers
is rapidly increasing in Norway, and
the imports are naturally falling Off
DR.. Sigurd Ibsen, the son of the poet,
has also entered the controversy about
the status of ''Terje Vigen," the hero
of Ibsen's greatest poem. DR.. Sigurd
Ibsen states that from remarks made
by his father he is bound to believe
that Terje Vigen never existed except
as he is known in the poem.
The grand duke Of Sachsen -Waimar
was to visit King Haakon a few days
ago, and the two were to go hunting
together.
The Socialists Of Kristiania are
erecting hall of their own at cost of
$125,000.
Rev. Alfred Eriksen, Socialist men,
Der of the storting from Fimarken, has
been reelected by five times as many
votes as his opponent received.
The fuss and cost of having a sup
Elementary election wherever no stort-
ing candidate receives majority of
the votes cast may cause a change
in the present election laws. It is also
proposed to have one common day Of
election for the whole kingdom, the
present system of dragging the cleo
tons out for several weeks being too
hard on the nerves.
Several Norwegian expeditions have
just left for Spitzbergen, and the men
will be distributed among dozen diff
ferent stations where they are going
to spend, the coming winter. More
Norwegians are going to stay up there
next winter than ever before.
:. The hotel keepers at Aalesund have
no right to sell liquors. But as some
of them are suspected Of having VIC.
lated the prohibition ordinance by SELF
ing beer to travellers the courts have
ordered them to have their books ex-
a1nined by the police department.
The Kompelien and Fladlien estates,
South Land, We're sold by Anton MAIDS
lien to Mr. ahtstrom, of .Honefos, for
$1,000. := }]:. .. B.: st. :.> !