Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-10-24
NORWAY.

There was complete winter weather
at Tromso Sept. %.
King Haakon has bought paint
ing by Fritos Thanlow, representing
the marble bridge at Copenhagen.
Johannes Larsen Rystad,~ of Barge,
Lofaten,5 is supposed to be the oldest
man{in Norway, having been born May
3. 1900 /
The city council of Kristianiat grant
ed an annual pension of 1924 to Prof.
p. Qvan, who was the head of pri-
vate college for a great many years.
The new storting convened Oct. II.
1t is expected that about two weeks
will be required to dispose Of the Gre
dentials because so many difficulties
| were experienced at the last election
on account of it's being the first one
under the new election laws. which diff
fer greatly from the old ones.
At the opening of the new Vadres
railway to Fagernes Kink Haakon
made a short, simple address,, which
| was we'll received. Among the speak,
ers was a railway laborer, who proved
! to be- the most eloquent of all of them.
| This was the first time that a laborer
! was given a chance to speak on an
| occasion Of this kind.
The Norwegian authorities have be-
! gun to pay attention to the anti-mil-
tary propaganda. A pamphlet ITO The
Recruits. was distributed at different
military drill grounds last summer. It
was published by 1.-THE Social-Demo-
cratic Young Peoples Association of
Norway and print ii at the working
mems printing office. The matter is to
| be investigated at the instance of the
courts., -,
Arne Garborgs new. book, Jesus
Messias.' is bound TO cause great
stir. Most of the ideas contained in
! Textbook have been exposed by learned
critics. But those critics are not read
and absorbed by the common people.
It is different when Garborg, that poet
ical ire-soul, grapples with those
| ideas. His words shake up and kindle
even the dullard. The rubbish of the
ology is brushed aside, and an attempt
| is made to show up Jesus as he really
| was. In the forewarl to the book
Garborg says: I'm this way may be
| able to stir up this or that man. so as
to make him read the Bible. And this
may do him good. For people may say
| W1aL lney please, we are mol yet
through with the Bible"
| Upon the order of the attorney gen.
eral a number of Russian letters and
other writings were confiscated at The
Office of Finmarken, Q paper published
lat Vardo, in the extreme north. She
newspaper is owned by Egede Nissen,
a member of the storting. Shortly aft
forwards. the Social Democrats Of
| Trondhjem held mass meeting at
which Mr.. Nissen presided. He pro-
! tested against the COnf1scati0n and said
that the authorities had conn1ved with
I much graver offenses. The meeting
! passed the following resolution:
"Workingmen at ,Trondhjen,~ assem-
b1ed on the occasion Of the. interfer-
ence of our authorities with the work
of our Russian brethren> for the lib-
erty of their country protest against
i the introduction of Russian and So
4 cial Democratic writings in: the office
I of Finmarken is contrary to- all sense
lof Justice" ,.a11 : a., Ill. &.
/ Aage jensen, an ]. expert electrician
| in Drammen. was killed by am, cleo
! trio shock while all alone inSthe Bra
I gonas> station. ] About 80 600 volts
P1AoSO0 S1lA1
and one foot: and the, floor where he
was standing We're singed = e. Is, s ,} s .. IT
z. Two whaling steamers were built at
the Aker iron works, Kristiania, for: q
Japanese company. and heir Japanese
names are=to bet hund err and Light
4 ming. ''$%>.A Norwegian captain is to take
t2the ships to- Japan: z So ri:
4 ! The city council OF Kristiania decid
led that beer anu St BE retailed at no
d more, than a230 places ii the city dur
Ling the coIning yea Il Y a. III
III Norway exported $40 100000 tons Of Ice
sIsduring the past season. and the IN.
\ come 'front.' III S. SOURCE exceeded $780,;
i 900 besides what the ship owners made
1 sby trans orting the, goods !. 55$5 i S5s
I |.#Sn nywild geese are killed at" This
I E|Ittime of# in he. south FERN part
]. ! of Norway, herest they often stop u On
:sl#their way from II esE Ca n mort 81 the
:south They com man price ;of# bout
cents 3
Il The nistrat tors of the sestaf 81
1.-the late GeorgesE Lorenzen ana wife
Dramrns haYeS handed over s. Sc
Loco to.the city