Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-06-26

There was regular snow storm in
Kristiania May 80, but the snow re-
manned on the ground only a. few min
utes
The storting, by vote of 80 to "a,
resolved to have no fall session and to
convene about the middle of January
next year.
The Trondhjem- American expedition
to Spitzbergen kept twenty four men
in Spitzbergen last winter. Sixteen of
them have just returned to Norway for
vacation. Those men speak we'll of
everything connected with the expedi-
ton. Much coal has been mined, and
the coal veins are rich A good deal
of hunting has been done, the returns
being Sc blue foxes, ia white foxes,
11S red foxes and 76 white bears. The
sixteen men will soon return, and the
other eight will have a chance to go
to Norway for a vacation. All the
.men had enjoyed excellent health, but
the weather was rough and the snow
storms fierce.
The storting has voted 100000 for
the purchase of waterfalls in Numedal
Norwegian names have been given to
the streets Of new addition to Berlin.
The addition is located north of the
city, between the old city limits and
the suburb Pankow. The names are
Norweger, 1bsen, Aalesund, Bergen,
Stavanger and Nordkap streets.
The city of Brevik has a peculiar sa-
loon case. The Samlag saloon was
voted out because the people wanted a
dry" town. But widow whose hus-
band obtained the privilege of selling
liquor about sixty years ago, started a
saloon on the assumption that the
rights were not forfeited, although no
saloon had been run on that license for
many years, and the authorities find it
rather difficult to close the widows
saloon.
How the rent of the West Vemmen-
hog parsonage, Skane, was so ridicu-
lousy low for almost century, Berta
Person, a widow who died last spring
at the age of 80, could explain. She
hired out as buxonf, bouncing serv-
ant girl to an old widower who had
rented said parsonage at an early age,
the contract covering his own lifetime
and that of his wife. The minister was
not at all sorry to see that the wild
over was getting old and feeble, for at
his death it would be easy to rent out
thee parsonage for $3.50 a year more
than the widower was paying. But the
girl decided to marry the widower
The minister refused to marry them on
some pretext or another. Nothing
daunted, however, the girl, who hap
pened to know the dean of the parish,
induced him to marry them. The wild
over died in a short time, but not his
young wife. She stuck to the place and
managed it very ably. She kept up
this game for such a space Of time
that one minister after another passed
away during her administration, but
the present one will be able to raise the
rent several hundred dollars a year
by waving his hand, now that the
widow is gone.
The railroad which the Swedish gov
eminent has proposed to build through
central Norrland will give much more
traffic to the railway running from
Trondhjem to Sweden. In the course
of time it may even be necessary to
build line from Ranen, Norway, to
the northern portion of the new Swed-
ish finland railway"
Sheriff Vale of Vaglid, Numedal,
and his family ate mushrooms for din
ner, and they all took sick. The four
daughters suffered the most, and one Of
them died two days later. The others
recovered.
A complete agricultural census will
be taken. next September.
A boat carrying four men on the
Trysil river struck a rock in the middle
Of the river at Eidet., A hole was
knocked through the bottom Of the
boat, which was filled with water and
sank almost at once. One of the men
saved his life by swimming to the
shore, but the others were drowned.
y One of the results of King Haakon's
trip to Paris was that the French gov
eminent decorated Berner, president Of
the storting, and Lovland, minister Of
foreign affairs, with the Grand Cross
OF the Legion Of Honor.
It will take over $1,000.000 to- substi-
tute a broad gauge for q narrow gauge
track on the Randsfjord railway.