The Bottineau courant., 1910-07-08
NORWAY.

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 Egeland pulp
mills, Stifos Risor, was burnt down
! but the rest of the buildings were
saved. The loss was almost $4,000.
The largest salmon flume or 'stair.
way in the world has just been COM
! pleted at the Malang waterfalls, Maal-
selv river. The ,flume, is 1,400 feet
long and has 43 pools, or resting
places, where the fish may stop for a
temporary rest. The whole flume is
mined out of the solid rock. This
flume will be of great value to the
community. Now the salmon will
have run of forty miles above the
falls, and this may be rented out at
fancy prices to rich tourists.
Captain Roald 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
of the scientific world. Amundsen's
plan is to go with the Fran around
Cape Horn to Bering 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-
ficiently 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 Bering
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 $50 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 q third motor of horsepower
is connected to 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 sIeighing 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
teen will go along from San Francisco
when the final start is made. There
win 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. DIR. 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 I'd
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,
lundsen. ST
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
i killed and badly mutilated by bull.
| Stromsheim was 45 years old. and
single.
A Representative good templar pro.
u poses that the surplus Of the samlag
Il retail liquor trafflc be used for the
4 erection and support Of q home for
Il ebfiates and I for the purchase 81
"vested rights" to sell liquors at Ger.
tain places e the end q time.