China and the West

Norris, Frank. A deal in wheat and other stories of the new and old West. (New York, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page & Co., 1903).
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/9905/9905.txt.
The dual personality of Slick Dick Nickerson.
The President stirred uneasily in his place. "Well, I ain't quite worked that scheme out, Joe. But I smell the deal. There's a Russian post along there some'eres. Where they catch sea-otters. And the skins o'sea-otters are selling this very day for seventy dollars at any port in China." "I s'y," piped up Ally Bazan, "I knows a bit about that gyme. They's a
bally kind o' Lum-tums among them Chinese as sports those syme skins on their bally clothes--as a mark o' rank, d'ye see."…
The ship that saw a ghost.
But you may go along the "Front" in San Francisco from Fisherman's Wharf to the China steamships' docks and shake your dollars under the seamen's noses, and if you so much as whisper _Glarus_ they will edge suddenly off and look at you with scared suspicion, and then, as like as not, walk away without another word…
Only once were we all agreed, and that was when the cook, a Chinaman, spoiled a certain batch of biscuits…