Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-02-06

a. a low rate OF interest by persons
engaged in manufacturing Enterprises
on a small scale.
The citizens Of Sandsvall are con-
templating the absorption of the whole
OF Skons parish, which would increase
the population of the city from 49,
900 to 10000 and make Sandsvall the
seventh largest city of Sweden.
NORWAY.
Trondhjem.-A terrific hurricane Is
| raging along the coast of Norway in
this vicinity, and the fishing season,
Which up to this time has been good
and unattended with calamities, has
been interrupted. The steamer Nicolai
! knutsen was wrecked near Svellingen,
| but the crew was saved. The fishing
steamer. Braken, anchored at Snarset-
bogen, was torn away and wrecked:
On land the traffic along the coast has
been stopped. The barometer has fall
en- to point indicating an exception
ally heavy gale. Herbert Peirce, United
States minister to Norway, has been
placed before the public by a discus
sion in the committee on ways and
means of our congress. When he was
serving as third assistant secretary Of
state he represented San Francisco
concern, the North American CONNER
cial Company, at the Hague tribunal,
and two members Of the COMMITTEES
asserted that this was wrong. Prof.
Elliott Of Cleveland claimed that the
company was guilty of fraud in con-
nection with it's sealing enterprises in
Alaska, and on the assumption that
the charges were true a member Of the
committee said: Senator Burton is
new serving a sentence in a Missouri
Jail for doing no worse than Herbert
H. D. Pierce; now minister to Norway,
did in this sealing case.''
| Why do the Norwegian seamen
leave the Norwegian ships and hire out
! on foreign ships? This question has
just been discussed in the Norwegian
press. One explanation was, that the
Norwegian seamen Of our day are
shiftless fellows who only want to have
nice time, big pay and little to do
But this explanation was easily
brushed away by the mere mention Of
the fact that there is great demand
for Norwegian seamen abroad. Another
explanation seems to come much
|
by Norwegian shipowners are far be-
low those paid abroad, and no matter
how patriotic young Norwegian
sailor may be he is apt to work when
he can get the biggest pay, even though
it be on a foreign bottom.
K. Sommerschield wrote an editorial
in the Stavanger Aftenblad, pointing
out that while Norway is unable to
furnish the necessary capital for
utilizing the great waterfalls which
have a capacity of thousands or even
tens Of thousands Of horsepower, there
are great number Of communities,
municipal as well as rural, that are
able to utilize some small waterfall
| in the neighborhOod. He mentions the
Bjerkseim settlement, in southwestern
Norway, where about so farms are To-
Gated within 81 (English) miles of
the Hytland falls. BY combining and
contracting for horsepower, or even
less, for each farm, the writer claims
that it would pay to build a power
station at said falls for the benefit
of the whole community.
cellar under a Kristiania warehouse
just before Christmas to sober up
after a spree. When he awoke again
the door was closed, and he had to stay
there Christmas eve and the next two
days and nights before the door was
opened. He did not have even a match
in his pocket. His sufferings almost
put an end to his life.
Miss Hansine Heimbeck, a daughter
Of DR.. Heimbeck of Kristiania and a
sister Of Louise Heimbeck, NADIA
gascar, is going to China, where she
is going to work in the service Of the
Norwegian mission society.
Much of the lard" sold in KRIS
tiania as a product from the hog is
really composed of vegetable oils, and
to have this wholesale adulteration
checked.
Arne Garborg is sad because the
Norwegians are too quick to sell their
natural resources to foreigners. 1--WE
understand" he says, that the day
may come when the Norwegian peo-
pie will have to sing, instead Of Yes,
we love (Ja, vi elskerf), Yes, we sell
this country (Ja vi selger .dette land
ETY. II
: Mr.: Won Often, minister of Norway
to Berlin, has been decorated with the
order Of the Crown, first class, Of the
German empire.
| Stavanger exported goods for $s74,-
900 to, American last year. Most OF
the exports were canned fish Of diff
| ferent kinds. ,.1< -" :
! Girls who have been employed in the
telegraph and telephone service may
keep their places after they are married
provided they hire substitutes at tlleil
own expense when they are bound to
stay at home on account Of child
birth. sE.s ss.=:s2 .rE=: III
The work on new factory at Fis-
kaa, near Kristiansand, IS rushed
throught he winter months, giving The
.laborers OF that locality chance t
work during the dull season. s..3 s=
Only so new buildings were put III
in Stavanger Ia 1906. This is thu
lowest record for many years past. B
Rev. Ottesen has dedicated the new
lscsmsterys sandnes s= 81