Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-06-03

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No less than 376 votes were pro-
tested In one week by banks in Stock
holm. This was due to the money
stringency.
A Swedish syndicate has made ex-
perlments which are said to have
demonstrated that it will pay to ex-
tract illuminating oils from the alum
shales found in immense quantities
in Sweden. At Kinnekulla, Voster.
gotland, there is over $4,000, 000. 900
tons of this kind Of rock, and it can
be mined from the surface. This in.
dustry promises to be of national i'm
| portance.
NORWAY.
A mining company in tho northern
part of Norway advertised for man
to NIL the position Of secretary, and
IS persons applied though the salary
was only $486 year. Almost one.
half Of the applicants were lawyers.
At the same time the company found
it almost impossible to obtain efficient
laborers at good wages.
Konrad Meyer of Bergen has be.
queathed the Egelund estate at Nestun
to the Bergen Merchants Aid society,
to be used as home for aged people.
He also donated $4,000 in cash for
the support of the institution. Some
time ago Konrad Meyer and his broth
er, Rasmus Meyer, established ben
eft fund amounting to s67,500.
Some radical improvements" were
made on Nykirken's cemetery, Bergen,
and the grave of Grogaard, a member
of the convention which drew up the
constitution of Norway in 1914, was
spoiled, and. cast iron tablet from
his grave sold as scrap iron. But
an antiquarian society saved the tab
let before it was melted over.
Amunds Nilsen has resigned as a
public school teacher after having
served in the same school for 40 years
and two months. The school in ques.
ton is in Mes, Romerike. About one
hundred persons of the neighborhood
gave him a fine reception On the oc-
casiOn of his resignation, and he was
the recipient of many valuable gifts.
AS matter of fact the storting and
the government are graphing with
the great problem of keeping up an
efficient army without compelling
young men to serve in it against their
| will. General Bratlie has proposed
that if young man who is capable
of military service refuses to serve
according to law, he shall forfeit all
| civil rights in the Kingdom Of Nor.
| way.
Rev. Carl Konow, the Unitarian
minister in Bergen, is giving the all.
thorities more trouble than ever. He
| is assistant pastor of Scandviken par.
ish, and the orthodox church people
have been trying to GUST him from
his position for two years past. But
no one in authority wanted to take
the first step to have him removed.
Now a large majority of his parish
toner's have petitioned the government
to promote him to the position of par
| ish priest. But this is not the only
trouble. The bishop of Bergen tried
to prevent him from exerting any in.
fluence whatever upon the schools,
and now the citizens have made him
president of the board of education.
Consul N Person, a Swedish mil.
lionaire, and the Dovre Mining CON-
pany have settled a controversy out
of court by forming new company,
Consul Person taking one-half of the
stock and the Dovre company the 9TH
err half. The new company will &C.
quire concessions which Consul Pers'
son tried to obtain. The concessions
granted by the government will en-
brace period of Is years, after which
| time everything shall revert to the
state The state is to receive per
cent of the net profits, but during the
first ten years the governments share
| shall be cents on every ton Of ore
mined. Only Norwegian officials and
laborers shall be employed, and only
Norwegian materials shall be used,
provided they are just as good as for
eign materials and not more than 10
per cent more expensive.
Hamburg, May 25.-The Fremden.
blatt prints dispatches both from Lon
don and Kristiania to the effect that
a tender attachment exists between
Dr. hansen, the famous explorer, un'
! til recently Norwegian ambassador a
| the court of St. James, and Princes;
! Victoria, the daughter of King Ed.
| ward. The Fremdenblatt says that
Princess Victoria, who is thirty-nine
! years old, has been an admirer of
the king. When hansen became
widower last year the princess seemed
| to gain a new interest in the hardy
Norseman and hansen respectfully re-
ciprocated her friendship. The Frem.
denblatt declares that before DR.. Nan.
sen gave up his ambassadorial post
| in London he made his affection clear
to the kings daughter and Princess
Victoria is said to have accepted her
| untitled sutton.
Rev. Schelderup has been appoint.
ed bishop of the diocese of Kristian-
| sand He was born in 1853 and has
been dean of the parish of Otternes
and Randosund since 1903.
Only 1,775 Norwegians emigrated to
| foreign countries by way of the six
leading seaports during the first quar-.
| ter of this year as against 4,496 during
| the same period in 1907.
L. Evensen Hesthagen, at Slapen.
| den, near Barum, and his wife, Karen,
| nee Danielsen, have celebrated their
diamond wedding. They are about 81