Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-01-10
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Who Is Emin Beg 7-stanley's Search for Him.
Emin Rsy, whose real name is DR..
Schnitzler, Is an Austrian by birth aad
education. He protested conversation 10
the faith of Islam about 1875, and then
assumed the name he now bears. IL Is
saId-bu5 We do not know on what eYl-
dence the story Is supported--that ne was
one of Midhat Pasha's medical attend
ants at ConstanUnOpe, and on the arrest
of his patron tor the murder of Sultan
Abdul Al al he fed for safety 10 hhGr-
tUum, disguised as an Arab He profess
ed conversation to MohammedaDlsm, and
represented himself to be Turk by race
"a we'll as religion. Even with Europeans
he seems TO have kept up his pretense,
and travellers speak OF Emn Effendi as ID
man of scientific tastes, really marvel
Gus thing Ia Turk. He became an Off
Ger in the Khedive's army, and met aud
won the friendship of General Gordon
when the latter was Governor General o.
Of the Sou1an. la 1878 Gordon appoint
ed him Governor OF the Equatorial Prov
inee, the southernmOst provinces
of the Khedive's possessions. 1t Is
said that Il min Pasha was but - years OF
age when ne was put in that d iiicult posi-
uou, but he there proved himself pos
sessed Of remarkable executive ability.
The financed of the province were in ap-
parently hopeless confusion; he immedi-
ately made them all straight, and IN
year had converted deficit OF e39 coo
into a surplus of 800. Ia 1882 he went
no to Khartoum and offered his services
10 the Egyptian authorities to effect a
peace with the Mahdi. They declined
his help and advised him to go back to
his province, develop, and perfect his
frontiers. He obeyed, and soon after, by
the spreading of the lnsurrpctioD, he
found himself wholly cut off from com
munication with the Egyptian Govern
ment. From that time Emin Pasha
deprived Of all outside support, ard
surrounded on all sides by powerful
enemles, aud yet he succeeded in keeping
the several millions OF inhabitants OF his
province in subsection, and has taught
them to wear clothes, make shoes, and
cultivate tobacco. Il province is a rich
one. all revenues teing collected in ivory.
After March, 1888 no word was received
from Emin Bsy, and there we're rumors
of his death. la November, 1885, t~o
letters were received the first bearing
date IN December 1885, the second Ia
Juiy 1856 One of these letters was
brought by DR.. William JuDser, who had
visited Emin in 1885, and with much
delay, and at great peril, succeeded in
making his way back through the dis
turbed territories to Zanzibar. The
principal tenure of the pasha'z letters was
10 ask for help and supplies, as the
tribes surrounding his territories 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 conduct this
relief expedition. Tie Egyptisn govern
ment contributed toward paying the ex-
penses of the exp dition, and large sums
were also proffered oy wealthy individuals
Ia England and Germany. King Leo
pold of Belgium. who has been generous
patron of geographical discovery in AT
RIGA, also interested himself in the plan.
Stanley, Who had just bsgun course of
lectures ip this country, gave them up
prom pity, cancelled all his eDgag, meuts,
ana set sail for Europe. February "a
1887, Stanley started from Ianz bar TO 20
by sea to the mouth of the Congo, aud mp
that river TO Emin's territory. He esti-
mated that the journey would take over
five months. No reliable news from him
has been received since he left the AImd
river 200 niles north of the equator, IL
Central Africa, year or so ago.
A cable dispatch speaks Of Osman
Digna as "half European himself" he
Is a Frenchman, or of F-rneh descent,
formerly merchant &C Saukim. His
name was Yinet before bs sojured it and
his religion to marry one of tbs late
Mahdi's numerous 6s1ghters. He should
not be confounded witt Oliver Pam, the
Communistic journals, whose joining OF
the Arabs and subsequent unex planned
death induced friction between France
and England.