Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-11-07

been considered one of the gayeIt
capitals in northern Europe. is at the
present moment suffering from the
jealous eXertionS of the prohibition st
party Up TO now the restaurants AMI
cafes have been open up to m dn,glt
and those guests who arrived hefor,
the midnight hour struck have leel
served with food and dlink and al
lowed TO stuy for practically m I'M
limited time. II has not been unusual
that the restaurant Keepers have not
seen the back of their iast guest lie
fore o'clock i'm the morning. This
was permitted by special license. OF
course always subject TO the cond
ton that perfect order was kept.
Even If one may say that to keep
restaurants open so long was unneccs-
sary, IT is impossible to say that tln
right has been abused TO any giea;e'
extent. For city like Stockholm.
which possesses very few clubs anl
where the welf-to-do classes like TO fire.
quent restaurants, especially after the
tbeaters. which sometimes do not finish
until half-past II. II has been and
Is still almost necessity TO keep the
restaurants open after midnight. But
the teetotal party, which has begun TO
be very strong in our town council.
has made the governor of Stockholm
enforce the rule that no restaurant o.
cafe shall be kept open and no alec.
holic drinks served after H. In this
way these places must be emptied as
soon as u o'clock strikes. This prac-
tIcally means that nobody can enter
a restaurant after 1880 o'clock. which
makes 1t impossible for people coming
from the theater TO take supper out
The new rule was enforced for the
first time Sept. 80 and caused many
demonstrations from the other part of
the public"
The coming OF Captain Roald
Amundson, the famous Arctic ex-
plorer, TO make lecturing tour Of
America, is being hailed with delight
by the Norwegians or the United
States. He landed in New York the
latter part of October, and will APP
pear In most of the leading cities of
the country, as well as I'm smaller
cities, where Scandinavian-Amer
are numerous. That his tour will be
| n brilliant success, there can be no
doubt. Like so many or his country
men-Dr. hansen, for instance--he IL
master of the English language, so
that he can appear to advantage be
fore an American audience. He Is
not only an explorer. but also a
scholar, who has carried on extensive
research work along scientific lines.
His discovery OF the northwest pas
sage is so far his greatest achieve
ment, but there are those who believe
that he will win still greater renown
by reaching the north pole. Captain
Amundson is a great admirer Of DR..
Nansen, and will adopt HIS method OF
reaching the pole, namely, by drift
| Ing across 1t on an Ice foe.
| The company that has been oper-
nting iron mines in south SylronSer,
has made loan of 100000 crowns
| from the Nord Deutsche bank Of Ham-
burg and the Discount bank Of Berlin,
and has increased its capital stock to
100000 crowns, the former capital
slO'h btiiiS o,ONDsNpO tIoMHS. Ht
company took this action in order to
be able to operate It's mines on
larger scale. 1t is estimated that I'm
1910 the output will be from 100000
to 100000 tons OF ore, containing e.
per cent. OF iron OF excellent quality.
| At Grand cafe In Kongsberg the 9th
er day the dinner guests were startled
TO see great big elk come marching
into the room. He looked about for
minute or more and in consideration
rushed through big plate glass win
dow and took to the woods.
A slight earthquake shock was felt
Oct. IL all along the Drammens river
For some reason or other IL was not
noticed on the seismograph in Bergen
and scientists are now beginning 10
wonder what was the matter with the
seismograph.
/ The Brustad gold mines near Eds
void have been sold to seven land
owners from Chrisiiania and VIII be
operated again next spring.
Madame Nina Grieg. wife OF the
late composer Edward Grieg and her
sister will spend the winter In Copen-
hagen.
Otto Winter HEN, the Christiania
composer, celebrated his roth birthday
| the other day