St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-17
CHATS IN CORRIDORS.
How an Accommodating Riv-
er Satisfied a Mortgage
for $4,000.
Otto Hegner, the Miniature
List, Gives a Taste of His
Quality.
A Traveller Who Found a Des-
ert Waste Beyond Grand
Forks.
An Exchange Of Shoes Is
Made With Drinks All
Around.

chairs in the Merchants lobby. His
face was half hidden beneath the ex-
pansive rim of frontiersman hat, and
every now and then he chuckled quietly
as though supremely satisfied with the
world and life as he found it.
YES" said the broker. Il know him
about $1,000 worth, that's all. Last fall
that old codger owed me in the neigh
borhood of $1,000. He hasn't paid me a
cent Of it, and yet by an extraordinary
circumstance he doesn't legally owe me
a dollar to-day, ana has farm worth
several thousand dollars.
| had notes of his to the extent of $4,000
and relied for security on 400-acre
farm he owned. Old Holigan-Joe
Holigan his name is-asked for an eX-
tension of time Oh the oteS,and | didn't
press him. AS / remarked, the farm
Skirted the river bank, and just before
the freeze-up last fall the old Missouri
got OH one of its periodical tootS. 1t
went tearing along everywhere and
anywhere but in the regular channel.
The country Whereabouts is full OF old
cut-offs from the river, each OF which
has, at some time or other, been tue
regular river bed. Only thin strip of
Iuilu OCpdl QbCtl VIZ iiNSi JucI eOO'S
HOligan's farm from the old channel.
One night it rained in torrents, aud
the stream rose four feet. In the morn
ing it was a seething, boiling torrent
and away went the frail barrier, the
river forsook it's bed and took to the old
route, and the first thing | knew there
was three-QuarterS of mile OF water
between the Nebraska shore and tine
land | had for security. The former
river channel was as dry as hill top
and you could walk from the Dakota
shore over to the HOligan farm without
wetting the soles of your shoes. When
the old man woke up that morning and
saw the Nebraska shore in the distance,
he began to figure his location, and con-
Guided he was in Dakota. Acting on
that conclusion he went and entered
the farm and now vacant river
had as homestead and the claim I'M
der the laws of Dakota. When l tried
TO collect my money found that l had
no claim on property in Dakota, and
old Joe over there gave me the laugh.
The land is annexed to Dakota, it
stead claim. 1t wasn't in Dakota,
though, when l lent my money on it,
and | propose to. give Mr.. Holigan
present of that S., 000."
j. st. St. CLAIR, of the Rhea company,
who is now at the Ryan, when making
his first tour of the West years ago,
landed one Dakota winters night in
Grand Forks, and, as he remarked to a
companion in misfortune, he wasn't
prepossessed with the town at first
sight. He stepped out on the depot
platform and surveyed the dreary waste
of snoW-covered prairie in disgust, and
then, returning to the waiting
room, began a critical eXamina-
ton of map which hung on
the wall. 1t was railroad
map, and as Grand Forks was the ter
minus Of the road represented, the
country to the north was left blank
and a black line marked the limit. st.
CLAIR found Chicago, St. Paul and the
other places on his list. Then he fol-
lowed the line up to Grand Forks, which
was at the very edge of the map. Turn
ing to his friend, who stood near, he
said:
"By Jove, Freddie. old boy, we hadn't
better go far from the station. The in
fernal country isn't explored above here,
and there's no telling what we might
run against"
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LIST IN MINIATURE,
Otto Hegner, the greatest boy pianist
GU earth, arrived in St. Paul Yesterday,
accompanied bp his father and f. B. De-
bold, who has charge of the grand piano
Hegner uses. A representative OF the
GLOBE visited the phenOmenally talent
ed boy at the Metropolitan hotel last
evening, and found Otto Hegner to be a
bright thirteen-year-old boy of pleasing
manner, natural and unaffected despite
his triumphS, and as deeply interested
in noting anything new III his surround
ings as any less talented lad of his years.
He has cordial welcome for all his Wis
itOrs and is never better pleased than
on finding some musical enthusiast with
whom to discuss with wisdom almost
appalling in its precocity musical
technique OF the relative merits of the
great composers.
81 like st. Paul." he said. 81 like it
better than most of the other cities of
the West that [ have seen because
well, because there are more hills and
the streets are not so straight. In most
of the places out West / always seem to
know where to expect corner, but here
| find corners where | least expect
them, and st. Paul is something like
Wagner'S muSic-full of surprises. Of
all the places / have seen put st. Paul
at the head of the list, New York next,
for | like it in different way and not
for the same reasons that like st. Paul.
Then came Hartford and Kansas City
they were very kind to me IN Kansas
City.
''Are you too tired to play for me?''
asked the visitor.
would you really like to hear me
play? You know l really like to play.
and l am pever too tired. but somehow
| believe people ask me to play some
times because they think it is the proper
| thing to do, though they really don't
care for the music. If you would really
like to hear what l can do. | will play
Young Hegener's playing of the Chopin
| Valse Oh "a was not similar to that of
any pianist who ever played it before
him. He played it as his own
conception of the intention of
the composer dictated, and it
was marvellous conception and
occasionally it seemed. though no fault
| could be detected by the listeners, that
| the effect in certain passages was not
that which he wished to produce. Then
with a compression of the lips and a
toss of his head he seemed to enter into
his work with new vlgor, and as the lit
tie lad traversed the fortissimo pass
ages, so grand was the effect, SO stirring
the melody, that the furore Of enthusi-
asm his playing has awakened in vast
| audiences, the almost idolatrouS wOr-
ship accorded him by musical enthusi-
| astS in the East were no longer mex
| plicable, and the truth of the remark
by one of his rivals that the boy is not
prodigy, but an artist, was fully Justl-
| fed.
AN EXCHANGE OF SHOES.
F.F. Casserly, of Chicago, who got
| into ST. Paul yesterday, and was at the
| Merchants last evening, says it isn't
! safe to travel with anything but a
| buster and moccasins nowadays.
"Look here" he said, addressing the
| GLOBE rounder, ''I've had umbrellas
| stolen, gloves, watches and other trities
| like that, but have to relate to you the
| first occasion upon which any one stole
my shoes. I was in the sleeper last
night, and. as usual, put my
4 fo,, +bo MORTAR tn clean.