Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-11-07

aimldnu ana GOtebOrg Ian. Parts
OF Varmland have lost large part
OF their population thru emigration.
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. This
feature made the publication so popu.
lar this year that $4,000 copies have
already been ordered.
NORWAY.
X. 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 a 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 justif1able and
practical. The conservative press
said that he talked like an irrespon.
slole 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 a pulpit in the state church OF
Norway, though he is 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
hos
cred at Tungenas. There were nu.
merous oyster shells, other kinds Of
shells and bones Of animals, birds and
hshes. 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.
tion of Nicholson has no political sig.
nif1cance, being due exclusively to a
serious heart trouble. He accepted
his position as premier March II,
1905, and led the country thru one of
it's 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 a grade of to so to an ele-
walton of 1000 feet above the sea. It
winds its 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 60 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
lished in the newspapers of the neigh
borhood. At a recent meeting of the
town board Mr.. Mas offered to give his
coin to an aid fund for soldiers wild
ows aud orphans. The vice president
of the board took the chair, and the
gift was accepted with thanks. It was
moved that the donation (nominally
81 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