The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-01-19
AFRICAN ADVENTURES.
Who Is Emin Bey ?---Stanley's
Search for Him.

DR.. Schnitzler, is an Austrian b,
birth and education. He professet
conversion to the faith of islam
about 1875, and then assumed tn
name he now bears. It is said
but we do not know on what ev
Iidence the story is supported-tha
he was one of Midhat Pashas med
ical attendants at Constantinople
and on the arrest of his patron { fol
the murder of Sultan Abdul Aziz
he fed for safety to Khartoum, dis
guised as an Arab. He professec
conversion to Mohammedanism
and represented himself to be
Turk by race as well as religion
Even with Europeans he seems tc
have kept up his pretense, and
travellers speak Of Emin Effendi as
a man of scientific tastes, a really
marvellous thing in a Turk. He
became an officer in the Khedive's
army, and met and won the friend
ship of General Gordon when the
latter was the Governor-General OF
the Soudan. In 1878 Gordon ap-
pointed him Governor of the Equa.
torial Province, the southernmost
province of the khedive's posses
sions. It is said that Emin Pasha
was but thirty-years of age when
he was put in that difficult position,
but he there proved himself to be
possessed of remarkable executive
ability. The finances of the prov
ince were in apparently hopeless
confusion; he Immediately made
them all straight, and in year had
converted a deficit of e37 900 into
a surplus of $4,000. In 1882 he
went up to Khartoum and offered
his services to the Egyptian author
tiles to effect peace with the Nah
di. They declined his help and adj
vised him to go back to his prov
ince, develop and perfect his from
tiers. He obeyed, and soon after,
by the spreading of the insurrection,
he found himself wholly cut off
from communication with the Egyp-
tian government. From that time
Emin Pasha was deprived Of all
outside support, and surrounded
on all sides by powerful enemies,
and yet he succeeded in keeping the
several millions of inhabitants of
his province in Eubjection, and has
taught them to wear clothes, make
shoes and cultivate tobacco. His
province is rich one, all revenues
being collected in ivory. After
March, 1883, no word was received
from Emin Bey, and there were ru-
mors of his death. In November,
1886, two letters were received, the
first bearing date in December, 1885,
the second in July, 1886. One of
these letters was brought by DR..
VIM. Junker, who had visited Emin
in 1885, and had with much delay,
and at great peril, succeeded in
making his way back through the
disturbed territories to Zanzibar
The principal tenor of the Pasha's
letter was to ask for help and sup
plies, as the tribes surrounding his
territory had become hostile and
threatened to attack his subjects.
Henry Stanley, therefore, was the
man called upon, as the best ac-
quainted with Central Africa and
the dangers Of the journey, to con-
duct this relief expedition. The
Egyptian government contributed
toward paying the expense of the
expedition, and large sums were
also proffered by wealthy individ-
uals in England and Germany.
King Leopold of Belgium, who has
been a generous patron of geograph-
ical discovery in Africa, also inter-
ested himself in the plan. Stanley,
who had just begun a course of lee
lures in this country, gave them up
promptly, cancelled all his engage
ments and set sail for Europe. Feb
ruary "a, 1887, Stanley started for
Zanzibar to go by sea to the mouth
of the Congo, and up that river to
Emin's territory. He estimated
that the journey would take over
five months. No reliable news from
him has been received since he left
the Armin river, 200 miles north of
the equator, in Central Africa, a
year or so ago.
A cable dispatch speaks of Os-
man Digna as "half- European him.
SELF" He is a Frenchman, or of
French descent, formerly a mer-
chant of Suakin. His name was
Vinet before he abjured it and his
religion to marry one of the late
Mahdi's numerous daughters. He
should not be confounded with Oil
yer Pain, the communistic journal
ist, whose joining of the Arabs and
subsequent unexplained death in
duced friction between France and
England.
Two Little Society Tipa
A gentleman should never take q
lady's hand unless she offers it. In
lo, 1x.n houco, 1o1v eho,.ld al.