Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-11-18
NORWAY,

A new wire nail factory is to be
opened at Hasselo, near Haugesund.
Many freight steamers owned by
Bergen shippers will be idle during
tho next few months.
Five houses were destroyed by fire
in the center of Harstad. The new
Waterworks did splendid service.
The missionaries Lindo, Wetterstad,
Rustad and Morland and their FAM
lilies have returned from Madagascar.
The cabinet has granted permission
to Sixtus Sjoberg, a Swedish citizen,
to buy and operate iron mines in
| Fuglestrand and Skavlaa, Nordland.
The grant comprises sc claims scat
tered over a large extent of territory.
The mines must be in operation with
In five years. The government is to
receive about cents at ton for the
ore mined during the first fifteen
years, and afterwards per cent of
the net profits.
Aardal, narrow, highly romantic
valley in Sogn, will soon be turned
into a manufacturing center. Many
years ago two men in Kristiania
bought the Moa waterfalls for about
$1,000. A short railroad will be built
to an arm Of the Sognefjord, where
large docks will be constructed for
handling the products OF the factory.
Millions will be spent to put every
thing in order, and 700 persons will
obtain regular employment at the
factory.
A cable from Copenhagen states
that the famous Norwegian arctic ex-
plorer, Road Amundsen, leader of the
Gjoa expedition which discovered the
northwest passage, has planned new
exploit for the polar regions next year
He will then try to reach the north
pole by adopting Fridtjof Nansen's
plan of drifting northward on the Arc
tic current. He will, however, choose
more easterly starting point than
hansen did, probably because he fears
the too close proxilaity of Bering
strait. 1t is not improbable that Nam
sens old ship, the Fran, will be used
on this expedition.
A liberal church convention was
held few days ago in the Johannes
church, Kristiania. Rev. Christopher
Bruun, the pastor of this church, was
badly w0rsted ina debate. He branded
Rev. Carl Konow as "unscrupulouS
and dishonest" because he still serves
an orthodox state church congrega-
| tion altho he no longer breaches the
doctrines to which he is pledged by
his ordination oath. But at the same
time Rev. Bruun admitted that he
does not himself believe in the damna-
ton of infants who are not baptized.
Prof. Oscar Jaeger retorted that &C.
cOrd1ng to this reasoning Rev. Bruun
is also "unscrupulous and dishonest"
because he is preacher in the state
church altho he discards article TX
of the Augsburg creed, to which he is
pledged by his ordination oath, and
which declares that unbaptlzed in
fants must be damned.
The steamer Folgefonden, which
sank few weeks ago, will not be
raised The hull is to be broken up
by means of dynamite, and the most
valuable parts taken up at once. The
number of dead bodies found was 26.
The cabinet has granted permission
to DR.. Adolf Gundersen, Wisconsin,
to buy farm in Grue, Hedemarken,
for $S1. Dr. Gundersen already owns
several thousand acres of timbe. land
in the same neighbor*ood.
Free school books and stationery,
will soon be furnished to the ;supils
Of the public schools Of Fiaxten
A numbering firm n Fredrir3tad
has sold about $4,000 ceres of timber
land in Varmland, NWeden, to an
English syndicate. A large saw1till
at Fryksta is included IL the deal
The consideration is sai1 to be abort
$1,250,000.
N. o. Petersen, a missionary who
has been studying French in France
has gone to Madagascar 20 take up
his work in the interior Of that island
| The carbide factory at Odfa has been
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