Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-09
STANLEY IN OMAHA.
A Chapter from the Gre Explorer
Early Newspaper Career.

A Chapter from the Gre Explorers
Early Newspaper Career.
In the year 1865 Stanley was sent out
to the Western country by the New
York Herald to report the war then rag
ing with the Nez Perces. Stanley was
not sent out to do this assignment be-
cause of any great fitness as war COR
respondent, but because he was faith
ful and had the reputation of getting
his matter to the paper sooner than any
other reporter on the staff of that great
journal. He came, and the way he
did his work was the marvel of the
country, as he constantly and repeat
edly sent in his messages a day
before the other great papers of the
day had heard from their special corre-
spondentS. This was done by Stanley
himself carrying his own messages to
the nearest telegraph station imme-
diately upon the termination of bat
tie.
No matter the danger, no matter
what risk of losing his life he may have
to undergo, he bravely carried his &C
count right through country that was
practically in the hands of hostile In.
dams, and capture meant death, most
probably horrible one, too Nothing
daunted, and showing all obstacles to
one side, he bravely did his duty to his
paper, and he arrived in Omaha directly
after General Crook had effectually
squelched the uprising, and a handsome
check from his employers was awaiting
him. Ere the winter was hardly half
gone the young mans money had disap-
peared. In a penniless condition he
was glad to get something to eat and a
warm place to sleep, and St A. d. Bal
comb, who at that time was proprietor
OF the Republican, permitted the young
follow to sleep in his press-room.
Thiscondition of affairs ran along al
most all the winter. but early in the
spring Stanley received word from the
Herald that he should report imme,
d1ately, as he was wanted-that they
were going to send him to report the
Grecian war, which was then raging.
Stanley Immediately started for Goth
am, and Omaha never knew him more.
He was sent to Greece, as history re-
lates, and an incident happened in that
country that made him the redoubted
explorer he is to-day. The story is a
long one, but can be shortened into one
word-loVs, Stanley fell in love with
beautiful Grecian lady, and the lady's
family investigated the young corre=
spondent's standing in his native land,
which evidently did not conclude salts
factorily to the ardent young lover, as
his snit vas afterward refused.
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heard from him, with the exception of
several letters written to friends in this
country, in which he avowed the inten-
ton of doing something that would
shed a luster about his NAME" not ap-
preached by any of the aforesaid young
lady's family. He said that he had
'loyed once and forever" and that he
was going to become renowned or die.
IT was not Q long period after this
that the report that daring young man
named Stanley was going as the repre-
sentative OF the New York Herald to
make an attempt to discover the where.
abouts of Livingstone, who, it was
thought, had lost his way in the Dark
Continent Years passed and no news
from the brave but reckless man who
had thus exposed his life to every dam
ger imaginable, and people had begun
to say that he, too, had persisted in the
same way that the man for whom he was
hunting had disappeared.
At last a messenger arrived at Cairo,
Egypt, which brought news of the safe
ty of the travellers, as we'll as brief
but VIVID account of thu trials and hard
ships endured by Stanley and his party;
telling OF the finding of livingstone
and later OF his death. This brought
the name of Stanley to the front IS an
explorer, and there it has remained
ever since and ever will remain.-Oma.
ha Republican