The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-03-07
NORWAY.

In S~torelvedalen there are II per-
sons each of whom pays taxes on prop
erty valued at $4,000 or more.
. The communion chalice belonging
to the church Of East Totem, the silver
wafer dish, and the ministerial book
were destroyed by a fire in the sections
house. This is the second time during
the memory Of old people that some
thing serious has happened to the
communion chalice of this church. In
the early sixties the church was bur-
glarized, and a very valuable com
munion chalice from the Middle Ages
was stolen, melted, and sold for a tribe
as scrap silvert The thief was pun
tshed, and a new chalice was ordered,
but now this is gone too.
At Anstad,; near Farsund, a woman
died at the age of 50 years. She lived
all alone IN a cottage of her own,
which was located close to a public
highway. She received liberal aid
from the p%oor-board and did not need
to suffer. A %passer-by noticed that
the windows Of the. cottage were COW
cred with ice, and upon investigation
he found the old woman lying on her
bed half frozen. She was Immediately
cared for, but died the next day.
Small amounts of money were found
concealed in different parts of the cot
tage, the whole amounting to about
$40. But she could not afford to buy
fuel to keep herself warm.
Jakob Nordfjeld, a Lapp who has
caused trouble between Norway and
Sweden more than once, keeps his
1900 reindeer in the mountains be-
tween Meraker and Vuku. But the
animals are so poorly cared for that
they are doing damage to the settlers
right and left. Finally the matter be-
came so serious that the cabinet de-
cided to have the government take
care of the animals. The Lapp bailiff
and the amtman Of North Trondhjem
amt have been instructed by the ma
tional government to take care of the
fiocks of Nordfjeld. The immediate
aim Of the authorities will be to reduce
the number of deer until they will be
too few to spoil the pastures and
meadows of the resident farmers.
The following is part of a newspaper
correspondence from Botne, in the
southern part of the country: White
grouse (ryper) are very numerous here
this year. Along Mofjeld creek and
the willow bushes in Storeng and the
Gronmark forest most of them may be
found. During the last snowstorm
they moved down into the valleys
Many Of them are killed every day
White grouse were seen on the table
in many a house during the Christmas
holidays. They are remarkably tame
1t is easy to get within fifty yards OF
them before they take to their wings
The Norwegians are not SO poor as
they used to be. During the pas,
twenty years the deposits in the say
ings banks have increased 161 pei
cent. The whole number of depositors
is over 1,000,0 600, and AZ out of every
100 men, women, and children in the
country have money in the savings
banks. The deposits aggregate s137,
600, 900, which is an average Of almost
$137 for each depositor. For every
person in the country there is $57 ir
the savings banks. The earnings Of
the banks are very much larger thar
twenty years ago.
The national society for the com
batting Of tuberculosis has been gen
erously supported during its compare
lively short existence. About $40,
600 has been given to the society fol
special purposes, and there is a perma
nent fund of almost $4,000.
The number Of moose killed in Nor
way in 1910 was 1862. The Nortl
Trondhjem amt was at the head o
the list with 331. During the sam,
year there were killed 1,057 wild rein
deer and 336 wild forest deer.
Bounties Were paid for the killing o
$3.50 crows in North Trondh;em am
Tlsst year,