Warren sheaf., 1907-03-07

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
IN TO point indicating an exception
ally heavy gale Herbert Peirce, United
States minister to Norway, has been
placed before the public by 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 III
Alaska, and on the assumption that
the charges were true a member of the
committee said: Senator Burton is
new serving 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
closer to the truth. The wages offered
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 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
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are a 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 3h (English) miles OF
the Hytland falls. BY combining and
contracting for 5 horsepower, or even
less, for each farm, the writer claims
that it would pay to build power
station at said falls for the benefit
of the whole community.
! Bernhard Hansen, member Of the
storting, has ordered a new steamer al
! the Nyland ironworks, Kristiania Mr.
Hansen already owns six ships, an6
this will be the largest of them. His
idea is to use this ship on regular
line between Norway and the West
Indies. He believes that a good mar
ket for Norwegian goods can be
counted upon in the West Indies II
the goods carried are carried direct.
ly from Norway. The return cargoes
will be made up chiefly Of bananas
and the hold of the ship will be equip.
ped with both heating and cooling ap.
i ,1s fo, =, IT,
in any kind Of weather.
"A poor fellow went down into
cellar under Kristiania warehouse
/ just before Christmas to sober III
after a spree. When he awoke again
the door was closed, and he had to stay
there Christmas eve and the next tw,
days and nights before the door wa
j opened. He did not have even a mattel
i in his pocket His sufferings almos
! put an end to his life.
Miss Hansine Heimbeck, a daughte
of DR.. Heimbeck of Kristiania and
sister Of Louise Heimbeck, MAZDA
gascar, is going to China, where sh
is going to work in the service Of tn
Norwegian mission society.
Much Of the lard'' sold in Kris
tiania as a product from the hog i
really composed Of vegetable oils, an
the police authorities are on a NOV
to have this wholesale adulteratiol
checked.
Arne Garborg is sad because th
Norwegians are too quick to sell thei
4 natural resources to foreigners. Wv
understand he says, that the da
may come when the Norwegian peo
i pie will have to sing, instead Of sYes
4 we love ga, Vi elskerf) es, we Sc
4 this country Ga vi selger dette land
i ! et.
Mr.. Won Often, minister of Norwa
8 10 Berlin, has been decorated with til
] order Of the Crown, first class, Of til
q German empire.
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