Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-07-06
NORWAY,

NORWAY.
The storting will no doubt vote Mrs
BjornsOn life pension of $400 a
year.
1t is proposed to reduce the age OF
military cOnScripts from % to %
years.
King Haakon has given up his visit
to Russia until next summer. The
change was caused by mourning in
the royal family.
There is much grumbling among
the common people because it takes
so long before the storting passes a
law for regulating the automobile traf-
fc.
II the company running steamers on
the lakes in Telemarken does not re-
duce its rates the local governments
may take steps to run the business
as a public institution.
A cave inhabited by human beings
in prehistoric times has been found
at Hestnes, on the island of Hitteren,
west Of Trondhjem. The find is the
most important of its kind ever made
in northern Norway.
The king and the queen visited the
Fran just before the work of equip
ping the vessel was begun. Captain
Amundsen introduced them to each
member Of the crew, and the visit
lasted almost an hour.
When the gravedigger at Herefos
| church, near Arendal, was digging q
grave the other day he struck petri-
| fed corpse. The skin was white as
snow, but when he cut thru this with
his spade the flesh had greenish
color.
Lars Afskaakelien, Gudbrandsdal,
who is sc years old, walked to Lille.
hammer before IL o'clock one fore
noon, across mountain ridge 1900
feet high. It takes an ordinary man
three hours to cover the distance.
The man returned the same way in
the afternoon.
When the bill giving the women the
right to vote at municipal elections
was placed before the cabinet one of
its members, Arctander, advised the
King not to ratify the bill. But the
king followed the advice of the other
eight members of the cabinet, and
signed the bill. Arctander handed in
his resignation, which the king &C.
cepted at once. The new member of
the cabinet is Darre-Jensen, formerly
head engineer of the railway building
department. The change will have no
! influence on the policy of the govern
ment.
Miss Ellen Key, a Swedish writer
OF some note, has written an article on
Bjornson, some of her utterances read
ing as follows: AT the bier Of manv
great men there has remained the
consolation that they leave behind
them the most essential elements of
their nature, namely, their works. But
all the works of Bjornson, even the
| most wonderful, can give only a faint
image of the storm-wind which has
now closed down it's wings, of the sun
which has set. To all those who per-
sonally loved him he will reappear
most wildly at moments when the iov
over great victory for mankind or
the grief over great Injustice in
society compels us to exclaim. ooh
that Bjornson had lived now'"
Halifax, N. S., June 20.-Held fast
on the south bar Of Sable Island
where she stranded last night in =
dense fog, the Norwegian freight
steamer Heimdal was discovered r..
day by government life savers when
the fog lifted. The crew remained on
board and will not leave as long as
the weather continues calm. The
Helmdal is 1856 tons and was bound
from New Brunswick ports to the river
Tyne, England. She lies about fiftv
yards off shore, close to the point
where the steamer Skidby was
wrecked six years ago. Wreckine
steamers have been sent from this
port and Sydney.
Many Mormon missionaries are husv
in Norway, and their success is arous
ing the hostility of the better element
Government interference is suggested
but everybody realizes that it ia =
most ticklish matter.
Another $4,000 has been raised Fl,
ROAD Amundsen's oceanographic OK
petition, and this completes the fund
The Fran has been anchored at Hor
sens, where the expedition is filter
out. >
| The grave and the monument a
Johan Sverdrup are to be located o.
beautiful piece of ground a little t.
the west OF Henrik 1bsen's grave:
A much larger number of small ves
sells are operating in spitzbergen thi,
summer than ever before, and most O
them are successful. A catch of O0l
seals is nothing unusual Small YES
sells are doing better than big one,
because it is easier for them to 90
into the ice pack.
Il 1ngebrigt Vik has finished a statu.
OF Bjornson, and it is proposed I,
make a life-size marble COPY of f. !.
be placed near or in the national the
alter. >
j The local government Of St1ordale,
has decided to buy the waterfalls a
! Upper Mala Mills for $4,000.