Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-08-23
NORWAY.

"A new>mission house has been dedt.
Gated at Vestmarken.
The tourist traffic has been satisfac.
tory in the northern part Of Norway.
I. M. Olsen, of Nannestad, has ce1e-
brated his fifty-year jubilee as pub
lie school teacher.
Both parties to the great lockout
have declined to negotiate. This
means fight to the finish.
A general mission rally at Framnas,
Hordanger, was attended by 600 dele
gates from different parts of the world.
Efforts are being made to raise an
endowment fund for the university of
Norway by means of private subscrip-
tons.
The closing festival Of the national
temperance convention at Grinmstad
was attended by 5000 persons, and the
waves of enthusiasm ran high.
A students Christian convention at
Voss was attended by almost 200 dele
gates, some of whom had come from
Sweden, Denmark, and England.
The drouth was SO severe at Are
mark that the people were praying for
rain in the midst of the haying season.
The hay crop is below one-half OF an
average.
A Swedish company owned 4 large
tract of timber land at Lierne, north.
west of Trondhjem, but now it has
been bought back by Norwegians. The
area of the tract is about IS 900 acres,
but only about one-third of it is pro-
ductive.
An English steamer brought the fol-
lowing news from Spitzbergen. A whole
mountain Of marble has been found in
Kings Bay. Klaus Andersen's expe-
dition had lost two out of total Of six
men. The lost men went out in a
boat to hunt walrus. and no trace OF
them or the boat has been seen. It is
supposed that the boat was upset by
the walrus. The hunting and fishing
gave but poor returns, the winter was
mild throughout, and the water was
open.
Beatrice Gjertsen, = Minneapolis girl
of Norwegian German extraction, who
has acquired an international fame as
an opera singer, writes about recent
trip to the land of her forefathers:
There is something very appealing to
me in Norway. 1t is the simplicity, the
naturalness, and true heartedness Of
it's people, the land rings true, it's al.
mosphere is morally invigorating, one
has the feeling that he wants to do the
right thing, and then they are clean
people. The humblest cottage is clean
and sweet. As see more of Norway
I begin to understand better the Nor
wegian character. What natures PEG.
!ple must have, born under the shelter
Of these high mountains-how wonder
fu: their imagination, how intensely
proud and reserved, how playful and
how tender their inner natures. how
full Of passion for the grand and noble.
how patient through the years of pow,
erty and struggles
The sacrifice which the Norwegian
workingmen are making for each 9th.
er is striking the outsiders with won.
Ger and admiration. About $13,5O0 has
been set aside as travelling expenses
for the unemployed men who wish to
leave the country, and those who have
investigated the matter recommend
Canada and the Pacific slope. It il
said that the above amount Will be
doubled. There is comic phase to
this movement. The capitalists Of
Norway have locked out the men, anc
the comrades of the latter raise money
to send them to America. At the same
time the capitalists Of Norway, head.
ed by the king, have organized ma
tional anti-imigration society, the aim
of which is to prevent people from
emigrating on the one hand, and to
work for the return Of those already
emigrated. The plain man looks at the
situation in this light; the moneyed
men compel the ablest workmen to
leave the country, and at the same
time they try to induce WORKOUT Nor
wegfans abroad to return to Norway.
Erik Vullum, campaign speaker
for the Liberal party, reported upon
his return from the field, that there
was no use in fighting against the So
ctaAsts. The small farmers are strug.
glfhg hard to make living. They at.
tribute their hard lot to the avarice and
misgovernment of the bureaucracy,
and In the courfe Of time they have
learned to look upon Social Democracy
as the last refuge from well nigh in
tOlerablo cOnditi0na #ss.ssss#
A huge OK was bitten by q vipel
while grazing at Smoraasmark. near
Bergen, and in two hours the animal
died from blood poisoning.
Ex-President Roosevelt, In Swing his
voluntary testimony on certain phase
of the manipulations Of the American
steel trust, said that in his opinion the
control Of the American trusts win
come in the general lines Of super
vision exercised by the German gov.
eminent over such concerns.
BIS. An egg-shaped boulder about three
feet in diameter constituted part 81 .
q stone fence on farm IN Tune. Small
evene. IS few days ago the rock waa
struck by thunderbolt and splintered
as II BY dynamite. Fragments weigh
ing 9 hundred pounds OF more werss
thrown many yards