Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-06

Nordens Jul Morse Christmas), a
Christmas publication, is to contain
characteristic utterances about the
great cities of Sweden, made by some
of the. leading men in each city. Thls
feature made the publication so popu-
lar this year that $4,000 copies have
already been ordered.
NORWAY.
K. Stangeland and wife, of Stavan'
ger, celebrated their golden wedding
Oct. Is. They were born in 1924.
Sven Aarrestad, the foremost advo-
cate of temperance, and member OF
the cabinet, said in lecture before
the students union that the question
of prohibition or no prohibition will
have to be decided in the near future,
and at the same time he argued that
prohibition is both justifiable and
practical. The conservative press
said that he talked like an irrespon-
sible man on the temperance question.
The bishop of Bergen does not favor
the use of the civil courts for settling
the case of Rev. Konow, who is still
filling pulpit in the state church of
Norway, though he is a Unitarian. The
bishop urges that even if Rev. Konow
is ousted the victory would be dan
gerous one to the state church.
A big pile of kitchen refuse from
the older Stone Age has been discov-
cred at Tungenas. There were nu-
| merous oyster shells, other kinds of
shells and bones of animals, birds and
fishes. 1t has also been proved with
gruesome certainty that the men who
left those remains were cannibals for
human bones were mixed up with the
rest.
Christian Nicholson, premier of
Norway and one of the commanding
figures in Scandinavian affairs during
the period that saw the dissolution of
the union of Sweden and Norway, has
resigned. His action led to the res
ignations of the ministers of public
worship and justice. King Haakon
later made the following appoint
ments: J. G. Lovland, premier and
minister of foreign affairs; M. Bredal,
minister of Justice; Capt Dawes, min
lister of defense; Hagnus Halvorsen,
minister of finance; M. Berge, minis
ter of public worship. King Haakon
sent an autograph letter to M. Michel
sen, in which he expressed the graft
tude of all Norwegians for the serv-
ices he had rendered to his country,
and decorated him with the Chain of
the Order of St. Olaf The resigna-
ton of Nicholson has no political sig
nificance, being due exclusively to a
serious heart trouble. He accepted
his position as premier March II,
1905, and led the country thru one of
its greatest crises in modern times.
A great national event, the spiking
of the rail connecting western Nor
way and the city of Bergen with the
great railway net of Norway, occurred
Oct. 10. At Ustaoset, about 5000 feet
above the sea, the crews from the
east and the west met, and amidst
dynamite salutes, the beating of drums
| and the strains of the national hymn,
two engineers joined the last rails
together. This railway is a triumph
of Norwegian railway engineering.
Thru more than 100 tunnels, one of
| which is 5000 feet long, the roadbed
! rises at grade of to so to an ele-
| walton of 1000 feet above the sea. It
winds it's way above vast abysses,
among eternal snow and ice, from the
picturesque fjords of the West. The
combined length of the snowsheds is
IL (English) miles, and the snow
fences are three times as long. When
the road is fully equipped it will be
possible to go from Bergen to Copen-
! hagen in less than twenty-four hours.
In case of war this road will make it
possible to shift troops between the
east and the west in as many days as
it formerly took weeks.
Arne Mas, chairman of the town
| board of Brandval, Solar, last summer
| proposed that the soldiers who re-
ceived two-kroner memorial coin be-
cause they served along the Swedish
frontier during the union conflict in
1905, donate the same to projected
home for the poor families of dead
soldiers. Little attention was paid to
| the proposition, though it was pub
llshed in the newspapers of the neigh
bOrhOOd. At recent meeting of the
town board Mr.. Mas offered to give his
! coin to an aid fund for soldiers wild
ows and orphans. The vice president
of the board took the chair, and the
gift was accepted with thanks. It was
moved that the donation (nominally
! "a cents) be managed by the board
! and the savings band. The motion
was adopted but the members were in
clined to smile at this game. Ii
brarian Mas resumed the chair and
proceeded with the business before the
house. The next thing in order was
a communication from Mrs. Mas, the
wife of the chairman, who offered to
pay $135 for the coin which had Just
been donated to said fund. A mo-
ton to accept the offer with thanks
was passed by unanimous vote, and
this time the inclination to smile was
all gone.
The Samlag (retail liquor company)
of Haugesund tried hard to get a lease
OF life for six years to come, but the
city council gave only one year. At
the same time the time for closing
the saloons in the evening was
changed from to o'clock.
Gypsies having children of fair
complexion with them are often trou-
bled on account of the disappearance
OF Gudrun Klausen, a six-year-old girl.
| A new ironclad has been planned by