Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1909-12-02


reached the respectable sum OF l4.50o
crowns. Just how soon the statue
will be erected is not known. About
10000 crowns will be needed
Bishop Wellman has been released
from his duties at present on account
of illness. Provost C. A. Hallstrori
has been appointed to ofiiciate in bis
place during his illness.
NORWAY.
The general election In Norway, says
IN exchange editorislly. which has
been In progress for month. Is over
at last, and it appears that the new
Storthing will be antagonistic to the
present radical ministry. This means
that Prime Minister Knudsen and his
associates, who have held ONCE by
grace of a coalition that had a narrow
majority of three in the Storthing.
will have TO turn their portfolios over
next January to new ministry made
up of conservatives and moderate lib.
erals. This latter party has elected
81 members of the Storthing, q clear
majority of FIVE, while the consolidat.
ed Left and the Socialists who, by com.
bining, managed to turn out the Low.
land and install the Knudsen ministry.
The balloting has gone against them
decidedly, although il was expected
that the granting of full suffrage rights
to the women of Norway would help
the Socialists. II is not yet known up.
on whom the Conservatives will unite
for prime minister. but four names
are heard: Professor Stang of .ha
University OF Christiania, whose IA.
ther and grandfather before him were
premier; General Bratlie of Christi
ania who is the real Conservative
leader; Christian Nicholson OF Ber.
gen, who won fame as premier at the
time of the dissolution of the union
with Sweden, and who is a moderate
Liberal, and his protege, Mr. Konow,
also of Bergen. The real choice, It u
said, lies between Bratlie and Konow
as Professor Stang is out Of sympathy
with his party, and Mr.. Nicholson 10
disinclined to re-enter active political
life. The political overturn in Ncr
way will, according to many. mean an
end to the policy Of exaggerated gov.
eminent control over private bust
ness" The campaign turned largely
around the Knudsen ministry's policy
of protecting the water powers and
claiming them for the state at the ex.
Nfr Of fhn
law was passed by the Storthing limit.
ing such grants to eighty years, at the
expiration of which the powers. ex.
cept those under 1,o00 horse, power,
revert to the state, with all the works
by which they are controlled. The
Conservatives would like to repeal
this law, but will scarcely do so, un'
less they offer an acceptable substi.
tute. The Norwegian protectorate Is
thought to be strongly for conservation
of water power, despite the results OF
the election, and the Conservatives will
have to proceed with great caution in
striving TO undo the radical legislation.
When the Strothing meets next Janu.
airy, there will be lively times in the
political affairs of Norway. Mean.
while the Socialists and their allies Of
the extreme left, seem to have suffered
q decided setback.
Norwegian papers state that about
5000 experimentation are going
to spend the winter in Norway. About
10 per cent of them are expected to
settle for good in Norway. Nearly all
of them have saved money In America
and most of them have spent from
six to ten years there. A few of them
have spent as much as forty years
there. Quite few OF them come
to Norway every fall and return
to America in the spring, to resume
work as seamen on the Great Lakes.
where 1000 Norwegians are occupied
every summer. Most of the Norwe.
gian birds of passage of this kind own
small farms in the vicinity of Larvik
and Tonsberg. About one hundred
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES bought real es.
tate in Norway last year It Is esti.
mated that the winter visitors will
spend about 100000 during the win.
ter.
Emigration from Norway will be
very much larger during the year 1909
than it was during the year previous
though hardly as large as it was the
year 1907. In that year the number
who left Norway was 22.135, but last
year the number was reduced to 8,497
During the first six months OF the pres
ant wear Q26 left the fafherIapd for
other parts. The United States re
ceived the bulk of these sturdy Morse
men.
DENMARK.