Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-05-29
NORWAY.

started at Lofthus, Hardanger.
Norway has 100000 fruit trees,
and the average return 10 $3.50 for
each tree.
A strike in the Stavanger canneries
has caused a serious disturbance In
that industry.
A young peoples society In Trond-
hjem has taken steps to open q farm
ers' house" in that city.
Vesteraalen il to have a cannery at
. cost Of $4,000. This will be the
northernmost cannery in the world.
A gift of honor of 5000 has been
raised by people Of Kristiania for
Oscar Mathiesen. the champion skat.
er.
A march in honor Of Roald Anund-
sen has been composed by 1nSebret
Haaland-a fine tribute to the con-
Queror of the south pole.
Ole Indset, an old resident Of Roros,
but who is now living at Lillehamner,
has donated $4,000 to Roros for the
benefit of poor people receiving no
public aid.
About 900 men are working on tho
northern portion of the new Dovre
railway line. and the force will soon
be increased to 1900. The line will
be completed in 1916
Macmillan Harden, publisher Of the
Zukunft, a German periodical, lectured
against militarism in Kristiania, and
for day or two he was lionized above
everybody else in Norway.
The first section of Captain Amund-
sens book has appeared. Among the
photographs is one Of the point sup
posed to be the south pole at which
Amundsen raised the Norwegian nag.
Road Amundsen, discoverer of the
south pole, has notified friends that
he will reach Kristiania in September
and will deliver his first lecture be-
fore the Royal Geographical society.
He viii then make a tour of Europe
and will speak in all the principal
cities.
About 10000 voters took part in the
first of May labor demonstrations in
Kristiania. In former years tho po-
lice used to confiscate banners bear
ing inscriptions hostile to established
public institutions. But public senti-
ment has changed. and this time the
police authorities did not seem to
notice such notices as, Down with
Militarism!" and Death to Militar-
ISM" Last year the Conservatives
laid stress on the fact that the lookup
was crowded with DRINKS in the even
ing of labor day. This year the num-
Der of DRINKS were not above the
average, and those who were there did
not belong to the labor unions.
The storting has granted subsidy
for a national exposition to take place
in Kristiania in 1914, in connection
with the celebration of the Tooth ami
versary of the independence of Nor
way. One question remains to be SET
tied, and that 10 whether or not it
shall be allowed to sell wine and alco-
holic liquors within the grounds. The
exposition committee finds it neces-
sary to have this license granted in
order to make ends meet, but prohibi-
tionists, who are numerous, insist that
1t shall be temperance exposition.
The exposition will not be interna.
tional. The intention is merely to
show the conditions of industry and
art in Norway and show what pro-
gress has been made during the last
100 years. .-.-- ~
Kristiania is being insited by an
epidemic Of infantile paralysis. Il
attacks principally children and young
people, and is very deadly in it's
course, over so per cent of the pa.
tients dying from it's effects. The
number of infected is steadily grow.
Ing and it seems as if the medical au.
thorities are at loss to understand
the origin of the contagion, each indi-
vidual case having no plausible con-
nection with any other.
Many leading Free Church people
in Norway are dissatisfied with the
existing normal school, and they may
start one of their own.
Capt. Road Amundsen, the discoy.
erer of the south pole. has arrived At