Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-05-31
NORWAY.

The cabinet has authorized 4 loan
of $16,o00,o0o.
! Kaiser Wilhelm is expected to make
his usual summer voyage along the
coast of Norway in the early part Of
July.
Captain Otto Sverdrup has Just pass
ed thru the United States on his way
to Alaska, where he is to be the head
of an American whaling expedition.
! President Bratlie is going to repre-
sent the Norwegian storting at the
celebration of the millennium of tho
| establishment of the duchy Of Nor
mandie.
Mrs. Caroline Bjornson has given up
the idea of selling the poets famous
home, Aulestad, and she is going to
rent it out for another year to Erling.
one of her sons.
Several Norwegian firms are already
doing or preparing to do business OF
different kinds in Spitzbergen, and
for them it will be of great benefit to
have Geographic connections with the
rest of the world.
| A man dropped dead in a railway car
near Bulken station. When the train
arrived at Bergen the police took the
dead body to the morgue, where it was
found that the person had been wom-
an who had worn mems clothing for
many years past
I. Didriksen of Langesund draws a
salary for holding each of the follow
Ing POSITIONS: court guard, patrolman,
road inspector, bank auditor, pawn wit
ness, city witness, secretary of the
town board, insurance agent, inspector
OF the waterworks, auditor of the East
ern fisheries company, superintendent
OF national insurance, chief of the fire
department, manager Of the building
sites, president Of the residence loan
committee, auditor of the commune,
and manager of the district sick aid
committee.
The following figures show the re-
markable strength of the prohibition
element in Bratsberg amt. In the COM
mune Of Vinje S53 votes were cast for
prohibition and only against it.
There were 76 who did not vote
on that question. In Flaabygd there
were 284 votes for prohibition,
against it, and 81 were neutral. In
Jondalen II voted for prohibition, 3
against it, and 2 were neutral. In
Flatdal the votes were, respectively,
433, 8, and 81. The large number of
those who did not vote on the pro-
hibition question clearly demonstrates
that there was no excitement about the
matter. The astounding weakness of
the 'wets" ought to make it easy to
avert blindpig invasion.
The Norwegian government has TAX
en- up the adaptation of wireless tele-
graphy to the peculiar geographic con-
ditfons Of northern lands. Central rad
iograph stations are to be established
in Christiania. Mandal, Bergen and
Hammerfest, which will give COM
munication by wireless over a wide
area. Norway will be kept in touch on
the south with the coasts of Denmark,
Germany and Holland, on the west
with England and Scotland, and on
the east with Russia. Most novel Of
the features of the new system will
be the constant communication with
polar waters through stations in Ham,
merfest and Spttzbergen. Wireless
stations will be established on the
coast of Spitzbergen and first reports
from polar expeditions in the future
may be transmitted to the world by
this route.
The receipts of shipping industries Of
Norway for the year 1909 were $35, 000,
900. The figures for many years back
show constant fluctuations indicating
! good" and hard" times. The crests
of the waves were recorded in 1874,
1882, 1900, and 1907 AS an illustra-
ton Of the fluctuations may be added
that in 1900 the receipts were $685.
100000, and in 1904 they dropped to
$32,500,000.
Crown Prince Olav has recovered
from his attack Of measles. The other
children of the capital found that the
measles handled the crown prince just
| DO tuO no udu Ueeu Uuc O1 IueIu.
The commune of Ulvik has decided
to build home for aged people. Nor
wegians in America have sent $4,000
which is to be used for this purpose,
and considerable amount has been
subscribed in the neighborhood.
! Kristian Paulsen and Johannes Jor-
gensen saved two men from drowning
in Stjordals ford last winter, and the
cabinet awarded them silver medals In
recognition Of their heroic deeds.
The ironclad Eidsvold is going to
represent Norway at the Naval review
which is to take place at Spithead On
the occasion Of the coronation ot KIM
/ 0oorxe and Queen May.