Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-12-19
WHO IS EM1N BEYl

EtlIH DtN, NitSSe ldtc HOW 81 BluCil eli
cages attention, is an Austrian, whose
name is SchnitGer He was born in 1910
at Opelu. He studied medicine at Bres-
lau, Berlin AID Konis sberg. In 1868 he
became surgeon in the Turkish army.
1t is said tlsat at that time re became a
convert tc Northumberland, but this is
Egypt, ard became SGrgeon-General to
Gordon's army. In 1873 he was made
Governer-General of the equatorial prov
inces, and the title OF Bey was conferred
upon him by the Khedive of Egypt, and
he was afterward promoted o'the rank of
Pasha. He developed, as Governor, after
Gordon's retirement to Khartoum, remark
able executive ability. He is bold,
determined and energetic man, reads men
quickly and unerringly, and seldom makes
mistake in anything he undertakes.
When he took charge of the equatorial
provinces the whole regionwas in turmoil,
and its 100000 people terrorized by the
oAofS 0CdiCAo WIZ ON6iIdu Tie y,
kidnapping and butchering with scarcely
any restraint. In less than three years
Emin drove them out and brought the
provinces from a burden-creating section
to Egypt to a revenue-paying region, so
that it actually sent 10 the Egyptian treas
ury $4,000 surplus, while before it had
drawn 100000 annually from Egypt to
meet deficits. Emin gained great power
over the natives by his learning, his firm
ness and kindness and his keen knowledge
of human nature. He introduced new
methods in agriculture, established schools,
efectually broke up the slave trade, secured
the peace of the country, built roads, intro
duced many industries, suppressed crime
and made his region as safe country as
any in Africa. All around his provinces.
however, barbarity prevailed, the slave
traders prospered and carried on their re-
farious and murderous business free
handed They became the supporters of
the Mahdi and the enemies, of course, of
Emin Bey and General Gordon. The re-
suit was that when new king came to
the throne in Uganda, the Arab slavers
managed to control him. He used his in
huence with the other tribes to antagonize
them against Emin, and he was presently
literally walled in by hostile savages, who
were prompted by the slavers and kept
well supplied with arms and money from
the same source. News of the dangerous
situation of Emin reached Europe in Octo-
Der, 1886. He then had ten fortified posts
on the Nile, 1900 soldiers, ten Egyptian
and fifteen negro officers, and twenty
Coptic officials. He then believed he had
powder enough to last until the end of the
year only, and if not attacked by great
forces it would last him year He could
then have taken few men and his officers
and have escaped from the country,
but he refused to leave the people to the
certain fury Of the slave-dealers if they
once gained entrance to the provinces. In
the party of Emin Bey was Dr. Junker, a
Russian, who arrived at Zanzibar Decem-
Der 4, 1886, and his report of the critical
uuceG the British Government to order an
expedition to go to his relief. Later adj
vices, however, led to the belief that Emin
was not in any close quarters, but that he
had reduced the rebels to submission as
far up the White Nile as Lardo, where it
is now reported he has beensurrendered, by
his own men, in chains, to the Kahlifa, the
representative of the Mahdi The English
expedition for the relief of Emin started.
however, and was commanded by H. NJ.
Stanley, the intrepid African explorer.
Egypt gave him 10000, and in England
10000 were added by private subscrip
ton, and Stanley sailed on the 30th of
December, 1886, for Africa. He went to
Zanzibar, organized his force of $50 per-
sons, of whom but nine were Europeans.
and sailed for the Congo, up which he
proceeded along the line of his old route
In 1888, as shorter in land Journey than
the Nasal route. He was last officially
heard from in July, 1887 The progress
Of the relief party was slow. dust what
has become of at'is not now and may never
be learned. 1t IS known, however, that in
August, 1887, Is had been forced to leave
the stores and ammunition designed for
Emin, and proceed in lightest possible
marching form, because TippeozTip, a
friendly African chief had failed to keep
his contract with Stanley and furnish 500
carriers at Yambeuya. The scheme Of re-
lieffcr Emin Bey was not intended ,toraake
him out of the country, so much as 10 open
means of easily reaching his position
and thus sustaining him in controliing.the
provinces as dependencies of Egypt, dnrpre-
serving TO which all possible territor7
England is politically and financially in
terested.