Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-25
NORWAY,

A new church is to be built at Hal
lingskarven, Hallingdal
A new cemetery has been dedicated
at Steilnas, near Vardo.
King Oscar of Sweden died on
Bjornson's 18th birthday.
Bertha Somme, a ninety-two-year-
old lady in Stavanger, is cutting new
teeth.
The city of Kristiania has reduced
its debt 100000 during the past few
years.
The net surplus of the Kristiania
samlag (saloons) for the past year is
$17S,O0O. -
A Kristiania publisher is publishing
a memorial edition of Edward Grieg's
r0mances and songs
1t will be necessary to enlarge the
harbor of Haugesund at cost of sew
eral hundred thousand kroner.
About $4,000 has been raised for
the erection of highlands drinking
fountain at Eidsvold Plads, Kristiania
Enormous quantities of behring's
we're hauled in with seines in Kali
ford, about seven miles from Tromso
An electric power station has just
been completed at Storefos, Valdres.
The power will be used at the Valdres
stone slab quarries.
Some members of Sandvigen con.
gregation in Bergen intended to be-
gin legal proceedings to compel their
! cause he is Unitarian. But the de-
| partment of justice has stated that no
private parties but only the govern
ment can GUST him from his Office.
A joke. The samlag of Moss was
voted out But there are two private
| concessions i'll that town. They are
united with the samlag. But now that
the samlag has been knocked out,
those concessions will be withdrawn
| from the samlag and made use of.
! Thus the town will not be dry after
all. There will be two saloons of the
! old, old style.
The Kristiania Ungsocialist says:
| There is no direct antagonism be-
| tween the Socialist and the Anarch-
| lists. There is only this difference
that the anarchists are several de-
cades ahead of us socialists which,
however, does not prevent them from
joining the socialistic proletariate on
the day of reckoning and cooperating
with the latter in eXpropriating the
capital"
Meraker, a picturesque mountain
valley east of Trondhjem is gradually
turned into a manufacturing and min
ing district. There is plenty of wa
ter power, copper ore and lime, and
| along the mountain sides are thou
sands of acres of valuable timber.
One concern, mining company, en-
ploys several hundred men, and new
buildings are going up at different
! points for the accommodation of the
laborers and their families The wages
range all the way from one dollar to
two dollars a day.
The official opening of the Bergen
railway has been indefinitely post
| poned because parts of the line are
blockaded by snow. For a distance
of 70 (English) miles the line is built
| through a mountainous country, and
in some places the snowdrifts are IS
feet deep. The rotary plow was brok-
en-, and an ordinary snow pillow was
tried. But the engine toppled over
and tore up the rails. Some of the
stations are shut off from the rest of
the world BY next winter system
! of snow sheds will be furnished, and
that will obviate further blockades.
Dr. Buckholz has donated his sum-
mer home, Vestre Helmen, to the
commune of Gran, Hadeland. near
Kristiania, to be used as a children's
home. The property is worth $4,000.
Rich beds of iron ore have been
found at Kalsletten, near Tromso, and
Consul Pehrsson, the Swedish mil
lionaire mine owner, is said to have
offered $4,000 for the claim.
! About 100000 barrels of fat her.
rings" have been sailed down during
the past season. The catch for the
corresponding period in 1906 was U.s.
900 barrels.
The Kvindherred Savings Bank is
fifty years old At the end of its first
year it had 80 depositors and $6,065
on deposit This year there are 2,098
depositors, and the deposits aggregate
$248,461.
When Bjornson visited Copenhagen
a few weeks ago he had long talk
with United States Minister Egan,
and the poet said that if he feels
strong enough he may make a trip to
America next year. =. -
The crops were SO good in Jaderen
that the farmers have seed grain and
potatoes to spare. -