Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-06-17
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The svenska Life Insurance COM
pany carries insurance to the amount,
of $26.000,000 on 40,409 policies.
In the city Of Stockholm there are
about $50 private benefit funds of Diff:
ferent kinds having 4 combined CAPT.
tai Of about $16.0o0,0o0. The annual
payments exceed 100000 a year,
and the number of benefciaries is;
about $4,000.
The house owners of Stockholm are;
planning raise of the house rent;
next fall, and many tenants have an,
nounced that they want their quarters
only until that season. The house
rent is so high now that people are
leaving the city for that very reason,
and next fall the house rent is ex-
pected to cause a regular exodus.
The department of war has paid
such high rates for the use of horses
that a new way of hiring horses may
have to be resorted to. The govern
ment has been In the habit of dealing
with agents in the different localities,
but now it is proposed to hire the
horses directly from the owners. A
combine among the agents seems to
have brought the matter to q head.
NORWAY.
A new steamer has been placed on
Lake Mjosen.
Nine Norwegian marksmen will at
tend the International shooting match
in London.
A movement is on foot to abolish
the rule which makes the seventeenth
of May compulsory holiday: but all
seem to want to retain the present
clause regarding the closing of the
saloons on that day.
DR.. j. w. Sandblom Of Kristiania
and a medical student named I.aurites
Knutzen have invented an apparatus
for filling teeth with gold. The in
vention has been patented and is at
tracing much attention among den
fists.
Bishop Wexelsen of Trondhjem was
advised by his physician to take few
days rest in order to avoid a serious
breakdown. The bishop was making
tour of Nordmar when he received
the notice, and he left his work and
went home at once.
The Slemmestad cement factory
was burnt down in the middle of the
day, causing a loss of $250,O0O, and
throwing 400 men out of work. The
loss is covered by insurance. The
capacity of the plant was 100000 bar
rels of cement year.
Karl Ormerud, an eighty-year.old
man at Grimsrud, Hobol, lost his life
in a very peculiar manner He took
bunch of twigs for the purpose of
setting fire to some piles of brush and
treetops. When the fire was started
in pile of brush, for when his wife
came out little later she found him
dead on top of some burnt brush.
Prof. Renault, Frenchman who is
a recipient of a Nobel peace prize, has
just visited Norway, and he declared
NAoC AlAo CSeAJ CASAO was OAO AOll$3 1Cdol
to his heart and his mind. The way
in which the Norwegians sing their
national hymn was something of
revelation to him. They sing it with
a deep religious pathos; to them it is
a most serious matter, not a source
of amusement.
About 10000 tons of Goldfish we're
caught in Finmarken during the
spring season. The maximum num-
Der of fishermen engaged at the same
time was about 1900, and they used
about 1000 smacks. About 400 deal.
ers bought the fish, paying all the way
from "a to IN cents pound on the
grounds. The catch for the whole
country was about $4,000, 900 fish, and
the total output of codliver oil was
over 100000 gallons.
A Kristiania newspaper announces
that q great political convention will
be held this summer in Kristiania
for the purpose of arranging a ma.
tional union party including the diff
ferent moderate groups. The new
party is to oppose both the Rightists
and the Liberal factions. The leading
men in the new party will be EXPIRE
mier Nicholson, ex-Premier Lovland,
Mr.. Thommesen, the publisher of Yer.
denis Gang, and Mr.. Ottedal, news
paper man in Trondhjem.
For ages the higher mountain re
gions of Norway were of so little
value that it was not worth while to
discuss the question of ownership.
But change is going on in this re-
spect. Valuable ores are found, tour
list resorts are built and lakes and val.
legs far up among the mountains are
used for regulating the waterpoWer
down along the outlets. In other
words, vast mountain regions which
until recently were looked upon as
worthless are becoming more valuable
every year. The state Is supposed to
own the mountain plateaus.' But in
very many cases there is no definite
boundary line between the govern.
ment land and that owned by private
residents. It Is therefore proposed
to establish a court of five members
to fix such boundary lines.
A Goldfish weighing 41A pounds was
recently turned into fishballs at the
Bjelland cannery in Stavanger. The
head weighed II pounds. No less
than 10 two-pound cans were filled
from the carcass of this monster.
The tourist hotel in Maridal, near
Kristiania, was wiped out by fire
few days ago. 1t was two-story
wooden structure. Two other build.