Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1913-02-05
NORWAY.


cided to build a chapel in Raundal at
a cost of $4,000. .~ :.
The royal family returned from
England January s. The queen is
doing well after her recent illness.
"The Good Templar Ring" has been
awarded to Anton Sather, of Trond-
hjem, an account of long and faithful
service in the order of Good Tenn
plars. Mr.. Sather is the first one to
receive this badge Of honor in Nor
way. It has been in vogue for some
time in Sweden and England.
Telegraph Director Heftye is sew
erely criticized because he was In
such hurry to close contract with
the Marconi company for establishing
wireless connections between Norway
and the United States. Back of this
criticism stands the Paulsen CON-
pany, which now claims that it could
have offered more satisfactory terms
IL Heftye had not been in such a
great hurry to close a contract with
it's rival.
The government is going to issue
| 100000 memorial coins on the occa-
sion of the one-hundredth anniversary
of the independence of Norway. The
denomination of the coin is to be
double krone" worth 81 cents in
United States money. It is expected
| that the government can clear net
profit of $4,000 on this issue. The
government will choose the best de-
sign offered, and the competition is
expected to be brisk.
| Az two boys were driving along
the shore at Homsund an otter was
seen swimming out from the beach.
struck the water just in front of the
otter, and the animal started back
for the shore. A man who happened
to come past at the right moment
grasped the tail of the otter as he was
slipping into a cave. 1t did not take
the man long to pull out the otter and
hurl him against rock. It is safe to
say that this is not very common
way of hunting ottters. The skin of
the otter was worth about ten dol
lars, not to mention the government
bounty.
Gunnar Knudsen, the new premier
of Norway, was born near Arendal, in
the south, in 1848. He received his
education at the university and af.
forwards took course Of engineer
ing in Gothenborg, Sweden. He is in.
terested in many business enterprises
and has been so successful as to be
able to give away tens of thousands
of dollars to charitable work. He was
pronounced republican and voted
against the election of king in
1905. But as soon as he was beaten
he submitted with good grace, and
five years later the king made him
premier. He was succeeded by Ko
now, and the latter by Bratlie, the
immediate predecessor of Knudsen az
premier for the second time. Knud
sens motto was: Il want to make
Norway rich" But he complained
flat his country did not give hin
enough time to make good. He wants
the state to keep the waterfalls anc
other natural resources.
II Kristiania, Jan. 27.-A new world,
record was established in the Inter
national Skating championship toda,
J by Arthur Mathiesen, the Norwegian
champion, who won the 1000 metres
in II minutes 36Ho second. Thu
former record of II minutes, 46&
seconds was made by Mathiesen las
year. The Russian, Ippolitow, fin
ished second. ,:@
The total value of the crops Of 101:
is put at $63,400,000: The hay cro]
leads the list with $42,250, 900. Mex
in order comes the potato crop, 81
100000. The value of the wheat crol
was $4,000. ~ s.. =. :s z@."=