Morris tribune., 1910-07-15

/ York Tor shipment on the Kaiser H.,
which left last Tuesday. 1t is under
stood that the ashes will be deposited
in the family vault at Christiania, Mr..
| GUIDES former home Minister GUIDE
| came to Washington as the represen-
tative of the Norwegian government
on April %, 1908. Previously he had
been minister of Sweden and Norway
at Copenhagen and was stationed at
that post at the time Norway severed
| her connection from Sweden. Later
| he was made Norwegian minister at
Berlin, whence he came to Washing
ton. Minister GUIDE was a scholarly
man. He spoke eight languages flu
| emily and had been educated in Ger
many, England and France. He is
survived by his wife and two daugn-
tiers, Mile. Ingeborg and Mile. Sigrid
GUIDE. He was also a talented mu-
stefan and graduate of the Conserva-
| tory OF Music in Paris. GUIDE was the
son OF one of Norway's famous men,
Guide, the great landscape painter,
who lies buried at Christiania beside
two other distinguished Norwegians,
Ibsen and Bjornson.
His majesty, King Haakon, returned
from his father-in-law's funeral the
other day and soon afterwards star
tied the country by taking long SUBJ
marine cruise in the Kobben, which
was at the time making experiments
for parliament and the ministers. The
king and his party were on a battle
ship and he went down to make per-
sonal visit and inspection on board
the submarine, when suddenly, at his
| command, the tower was closed and
the vessel disappeared beneath the
surface. The king stayed below for
half an hour and it is reported that he
is the first reigning monarch who has
ever gone down with a submarine
boat. 1t now remains for him to fly in
an asroplane, a feat which has not
yet been accomplished in Norwegian
ATTITUDES.
Tropical heat, with the thermometer
at 80 degrees centigrade in the shade,
has been the order for the last four
teen days all over the entire country,
except possibly in the extreme north
ern sections. The melting of the snow
in the mountains has caused all rivers
and lakes to swell and in certain To-
calities great damage has been done
by the floods, which have surpassed
the high water marks of the last thir-
ty-five or forty years. Tremendous
RATS of logs have broken loose and
involved much expense in the regath-
ering and few thousand logs went
down the Sarpfoss, the biggest water
fall in Norway, and out to the sea.
The yachting season has set in and
all kinds of interest is evinced by
enthusiastic yachtsmen. Johan Anker
is the name in yachting circles which
looms high at present. He is to Nor
way what Herreshof Is to America.
Anker is the son OF rich man and he
has had thorough schooling as a
yacht builder and naval architect He
has his own boat building establish
ment where the most beautiful craft
are created in the winter months.
When Norway participated in the
Olympian games in London it entafled
an expenditure Of about p, GOO crowns.
The committee was unable to pay the
expenses and now they have had to
borrow money to cover the deficiency.
The committee has found hackers,
however, in the persons of Captain
Sverre, John Dahl and Goldsmith
Frisch.
The Norwegian Packing company is
the name of new firm which has re-
Gently been organized in Bodo. No
foreign capital is interested, the COM
pany consisting entirely of Norwe-
CLANS The company starts out in
good hands and contemplates a large
and successful herring business.
"Polftfken," the leading Copenhagen
paper, characterizes Bergen, Stavan-
ger and Drammen as Swedish pro-
vincfal villages" in recent article.
The sIur, of course, will not pass with
out vigorous reply from the Chris
tiania papers.
The worlds greatest salmon trap
has been established in the Masse-
elven. 1t is 1926 meters long, every
foot of it hewn into the mountain.
The country's customs receipts for
the month of May amounted to 2S,-