Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1904-05-11
Stanley Is Dead.

London, May 10. - Sir Henry NJ.
Stanley, the famous African explorer,
is dead from an attack of pleurisy.
Probably no man in recent years has
been more worthy Of the title, "self
made man, than Henry Morton Stan
ley, who rose from the poor house to
palace entirely through his strength Of
character and determination to be Q
man of mark. He was born in Den.
bigh, Wales. and was placed in the
poorhouse at the age Of 8. He remained
there 10 years, until he had acquired
an education; sailed as cabin boy on a
ship to New Orleans when he was 10,
and was adopted by a merchant there,
whose family name Of Stanley he as
sumed instead of his on Of John Ro ".
lands. Stanley enlisted in the confed.
crate army as youth, was captured
and enlisted in the federal navy. He
went to Turkey at the close Of the war
as newspaper correspondent, and lat
er accompanied the British army
through the Abyssnian wars as the cor
respondent of the New York Herald.
1t was while Stanley was in Europe
that he was commissioned by James
Gordon Bennett to find Livingstone,
who was in Africa, and from whom no
word had been received for several
years. He started in 1870 and pene-
trated the interior from the east coast.
After journey marked by great toll and
hardship he found the missing explorer
but could not induce him to rturn with
him. Many doubted Stanley's story
when he arrived nj England, but it was
soon verified when the news Of Living.
ston g death was brought from Central
Africa.
In 1874 Stanley again started upon
a trip Of exploration under the auspices
of the New York Herald and the Lon.
don Telegraph. This was his most IA
nous trip and resulted in the most i'm
portant additions to the worlds know
ledge of the interior of the dark conti-
nent. Two white men accompanied
him, and he explored Lake Victoria
Nyanza, discovered Albert Edward
Nyanza, traversed Lake Tangsnyika
and at last reached the banks of large
river flowing north.
after some hesitations as to what course
to persue, he finally determined to as
cend the unknown stream, believing as
he did that it was the Congo. Such it
proved to be, for, after q long and
thrilling journey Of many months
through hostile natives, many Of whom
W ere canibals, past falls and through
districts where it was impossible to OBJ
tain food, his weakened expedition
at last reached the Atlantic coast, min.
us the two white companions who had
started out with the explorer.
Two years after this memorable trip
Stanley returned to the Congo for the
king Of the Belgians, and the result Of
his3 three years. work was the founding
Of the Cnogo Free State.
He then decided to abandon further
explorations in the country with which
his name had been so closely connected
but upon the urging Of those who de.
sired the relief of Emin Pasha, hem
med in on the upper Nile as the result
Of the rebellion Of the tribes in the
Soudan, he undertook to lead an expe-
dition up the Congo and across the con
tinent. This most trying journey,
which resulted in much scandal and
discussion, he graphically described
"In Darkest Africa"
In 1895 Mr.. Stanley, who had been
knlghted, was elected to parliament as
a liberal unionist for North Lambeth,
but he rarely participated in tho de.
bates. He was married in 1890 to
Dorothy Tennant, one Of the bright
women Of English society.
Nearly 10 yeras Of Stanley's life was
passed in tho most exhausting labor
under the equator, but although he
suffered repeatedly from African fevers
he regained strong health upon his re.
turn to the temperate zone and wrote
many intensely interesting volumes on
his journey through African wilds.
The books describing his most impor.
tant journeys are: How / found Liv-
ingtson," Through the Dark Cont.
nent, " "The Congo and the Founding
Of Its Free State" and In Darkest AT.
rica." He published several other vol.
umes devoted to personal experiences
or to questions pertaining to Africa.
He held the Grand Cross Of the Bath,
was member Of all the geogolicsl So
cieties Of the world and had been dec
orated by nearly all Of the sovereigns
TO Europe. In 1885, with Minister
John A. Kasson, he represented the
United States at the Congo conference