The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-12-06
NORWAY


Laden with mystery, the steamer
Kkfstianiafjord of the Norwegian
American line, reached New York No
vember 9, after an 11-day voyage from
Bergen. The passengers got their first
inkling Of the mystery when Capt. 8.
@. Hiortdahl received the British off,
Gals at Kirkwall, November 3. After
% sacks Of mail had been taken off.
the Rrit;shers, who seemed to have re-
ceived advance information, began
thorough search of the baggage hold.
There, one of them fell upon a small,
innocent-looking handbag of black
, leather. The bag was seized and the
ships officers commanded to produce
the owner. No mark OF Identification
was upon the handbSx and passengers
denied all knowledge Of 1t. Without
explanation, some Of the officials took
1t ashore. Other officials who re-
manned on board whispered that it
contained American securities of
enormous value, that in some unex-
planned way it had left Germany WITH
out escort, and had deposited itself
In the most conspicuous place in the
baggage hold. One story circulated
about the ship placed the value Of the
securities at $4O,0O0,000. One man
said he heard the securities were
worth 100000. More mystery de.
veloped when stewards reported
ghost in the galley on Thursday night.
Search parties were organized, but it
was not until Friday that the ghost
was laid. He proved to be Arnold
Won Tulen, twenty-seven years old, Ger.
man surgeon. He was found in the
galley ventilator. For IL days he had
rested on narrow projection inside
the ventilator at an altitude of about
40 feet from the galley floor. To re.
lieVe the monotony, the surgeon night
ly descended to the galley where he
helped himself to food and water. DR..
Won Tulen said he had escaped
from q British concentration camp
in September and had slowed away
on q vessel which landed him at Ber-
gen. Then, instead Of slowing away
again on a vessel that would take him
to Germany. he decided to attempt the
trip to America. He denied all knowl-
edge Of the bag and it's supposedly
valuable contents. Captain Hiertdale
when seen by the reporters said he
would not discuss the bag mystery. As
for Won Tulen, the captain was unde.
cided whether to send him to Ellis
island or keep him prisoner on the
kristianiafjOrd. In the latter event,
Won Tulen anticipates another en-.
forced sojourn in England.
Premier Gunnar Knudsen recently
expressed himself quite strongly on
the tendency Of the people Of Nor
way to organize themselves and act in
groups in order to better their con-
ditiOnS. Here we have his own words
Glass after class, profession after
profession conspire in unions which
have no regard for society at large,
but only for themselves. We are in
the midst of a multitudinous class
struggle which has no parallel. Trade
after trade is organized and intends
to dictate its terms to the rest of the
nation. The state cannot submit to
this. 1t must take up these problems
for solution, and think they can be
solved. Physicians and veterinarians
and officers and all tradesmen and al
most all Others-sOon the ministers of
the Gospel will be the only exception
act as separate classes and make
demands in the name Of their profess
sion. Often they threaten with strikes
or boycotts. But where will this
carry us? What will become of soci-
ETY. at large when one class continu-
ally fights another instead Of coop
Grating? The state can no longer re-
main an idle spectator. Long enough
we have had one class fight, that Of
the workingmen. Society had to call
halt on it's development. Why, then,
should it not call halt on the other,
and equally pernicious class struggle?
The workingmen have reproached us
on the charge that we have made spe
Nldll III Wa dSNlloL LuO1us OuC NAtOO oil
gle Is just as injurious rs another.
Therefore it is the duty of the state
to intervene, and therefore the ques.
ton must be brought before the pub
lie mind"
Norway has more high cost Of nv-
ing troubles than the United States.
according to c. NJ. Akersveen, a mer-
chant Of Leeds, N. D., who has just
returned from Norway. Beef is sell"
ing at about forty-five to fifty cents a
pound, American money" said Mr..
Akersveen, land eggs are sixty cents
dozen. But wages are good, two dol.
lars to three dollars a day for COM
mon labor, and two dollars and half
to .hree dollars and half for factory
workers-the highestsin Norway's his
tory" Fortunes have been made in the
shipping business, Mr.. Akersveen said,
since the outbreak of the war. Most OF
the commerce between England and
Russia is being carried on in Norwe-
gian ships, he found. Just before Mr..