Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-11-06
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS
SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT HAP
PENlNGs IN FAR OFF
NORTHWEST.
ITEMS From THE OLD HOME
Resume Of the Most Important Events
In Sweden, Norway and Denmark
OF Interest TO the seandlnavIans
In America.
NORWAY.

The whaling industry Is having
good season also this year, in spite
of all the dark predictions which have
been made lately. Owing to the ire
mendous dividends which have been
paid upon the whaling companies
shares during the last two or three
years, there were several new COM
panies started and everybody thought
that the limit had been more than
reached. The shares of nearly all the
companies went down on exchange
and it had been predicted that several
new ventures would not be able to
earn anything. But as the season
draws towards the end the reports
from the different hunting grounds are
very favorable and many companies
have already closed their books and
divided enormous profits among their
stockholders. 1t is estimated that
this season will bring nearly $1,000
600 net profit upon the whaling indus
try to this country, 1t is fact, how
ever, that the amount of whales shot
far surpasses the natural yearly out
put of the species, and several hunting
expeditions kill so many animals that
they only take the latest part of the
blubber and let the balance of the
carcass go adrift. In time TO come
this will undoubtedly be sorely re-
GREETED. The entire catch is made in
the southern hemisphere.
Susanner Rosseland, near Lindesnes.
went out to pick tytteberries about
noon one day She did not return in
the evening, and several persons took
lanterns and went in search OF her.
She could not be found, and the next
morning 20 men started a hunt
through the woods of the neighbor-
hood. The next night the force was
increased to 100, who spent the second
night in the woods. On the third
day after her disappearance the wo-
man was found seated in a grove
above the Bielland town hall. She was
pretty low, and did not realize her
situation. Even after she was taken
home she was unable to collect her
mind. But after she had been put to
bed, had taken cup OF good coffee
and lit her pipe she began to chat with
those around her. Now she COM
planned that 1t was so difficult to find
water in the woods, but the worst OF
all the worst of all was, that she had
no matches so that she could not take
smoke. This lady is eighty-seyen
years old.
Apropos of the question raised be-
fore the British association by the
polar explorer, DIR. Bruce, as to
whether England ought to carry out
the annextion of Spitzbergen in order
to obtain legal organization and secur-
ity for property in the archipelago
and stop alleged Norwegian. encroach-
ments, the Tidens Tegn publishes an
interview with the foreign minister, M
Ihlen. The minister said that Norway
had made no efforts to appropriate or
annex Spitzbergen or encroach upon
the rights acquired by other nations.
On the contrary, 1t was in every way
to Norway's interest to obtain legal
internationally recognized arrange
ment, and it had done everything pss-
sible in order that the question OF
such an arrangement might be dis
cussed by the powers Interested. The
best hope OF securing legal organiza-
ton lay In an international agreement
securing the legitimate riShts Of ev-
erybody concerned
Birds of prey are very numerous in
the mountains Of western Norway this
season. This is the more remarkable
in view OF the fact that liberal boun-
ties have led to the killing Of great
number during the past few years II
actually seems as though the birds
have immigrated from other countries