Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-07-13
NORWAY.

mine.
NORWAY.
The temperance people of Kristiania
have resolved to nominate no special
candidates of their own for the COM
ing fall elections.
The drying kiln Of the Ege1and pulp
mills, Stifos Risor, was burnt down
but the rest Of the buildings were
saved. The loss was almost $4,000.
The largest salmon fume or "stair-
way in the world has just been CON-
pleted at the Malang waterfalls, MAIL
SEW river. The f1ume is 1,400 feet
long and has 43 pools, or resting
places, where the fish may stop for a
temporary rest. The whole fume is
mined out of the solid rock. This
fume will be Of great value to the
community. Now the salmon will
have a run of forty miles above the
falls, and this may be rented out at
fancy prices to rich tourists.
Captain ROAD Amundsen is again
ready to start for the arctic regions.
June 10, his ship, the Fran, started
for trip across the polar basin,
which is to last perhaps five years.
She is provisioned for seven. Amund-
sen does not believe that either Cook
or Peary has been at the north pole,
or at least he does not believe that
he can prove it to the full satisfaction
CT the scientific world. Amundsen's
plan is to go with the Fran around
Cape Horn to Boring strait and into
the pack ice, and he then intends to
drift across the polar basin according
to Nansen's plan, and try to come suf-
fciently near the hole to reach it by
sleigh expeditions. The vessel is ex-
pected to get clear of the ice again in
the neighborhood of Spitzbergen. On
his way from Cape Horn to Boring
strait Captain Amundsen means to
touch at San Francisco. He has been
permitted by the Norwegian govern
ment to use the Fran, and to this end
the vessel has undergone thorough
overhauling, which has cost $4,000.
Her interior has been completely re-
modelled and the old steam engine re-
placed by Diesel motor Of 100 horse
power. Instead Of coal she uses Pc
troleum. This saves a lot of valuable
space and weight, and besides this the
engine can be started on quick notice
to take advantage Of any sudden open
ing of the ice. Then another motor
Of Is horsepower works the anchor
chains or any other heavy hosting,
and a third motor of 5 horsepower
Is connected to a Windlass to take
deep sea soundings. The expedition
is fitted out with the most complete
set Of modern scientific instruments
for oceanographic and atmospheric re-
search, and attention will also be paid
to the phenomena of the northern
lights. A strong electric light has
been put at the top of the mainmast,
which will shine for many miles
around the Fran during the polar
night and conduct the members of the
crew back to the vessel, when they
are out on sleighing expeditions. One
hundred Eskimo dogs will be shipped
from Greenland in July and taken on
board at Bergen, where the vessel
touches in August, after having made
a summer cruise in the Atlantic ocean
for scientific investigation. Captain
Amundsen has twenty men with him
now. OF these only thirteen or four
fooy, mill On o1orer Fror, Con rror o3co~>
when the final start is made. There
will only be Norwegians in the crew
with the exception of DR.. Harry Ed
monds, an American, who joins in San
Francisco and will act as doctor and
magnetic observer. DR.. Edmonds has
for years been stationed at Sitka in
charge of the United States naval
magnetic observatory. The total cost
Of the expedition, including the pay to
the men for five years, will be $4,000.
OF this amount the government has
contributed $4,000, the balance hav.
ing been subscribed by individual
friends and admirers of Captain Am
undsen.
Bastian Stromsheim, of Sokelven,
near Aalesund, went up into the noun.
tains to look after the calves, but
did not return as expected. The next
day he was found dead, having been
killed and badly mutilated by bull.
Stromsheim was IS years old. and
single.
A representative good templar pro.
poses that the surplus Of the samlas
retail liquor traffic be used for the
erection and support Of a home for
inebriates and for the purchase OF
vested rights" to sell liquors at Ger
tain places to the end Of time.
The population Of Norway April first
was put at 2.375,00o, which was an In,
crease Of $3.50 since the first Of the
year. During the first quarter Of the
year 4,707 persons were known to
have emigrated.
Carl Lofvander is running hotel
in Stockholm, restaurant at the hunt
ing exposition in Vienna, hotel with
restaurant at Dalaro, and restaurant
at the Falkoping exposition.
Practically all kinds of crops looked
well in the early part of June. except
ing the sugar beets in Skane. whero
tho plants were uneven on account of
fha formation az 4 ernst On fhA 1raund