The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-12
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Red Hair of Ouch 10y
Beat of the Year Picked Up by the Cub
Reporter.
Reporter.

he was Mdncnu, not plall
. Chinaman, and he came from some
where up across the Cobb desert. I'll,
. used to sit in on the little games the
Silver City man was running, and
got very chummy with him; drunk, IL
fact, which is the chummiest you car
get with a Chinese.
"Now there's just one thing about
Ouch 10y that you must put down. He
wore the Yiddish sign.''
The reporter looked up at the un-
winking eyes of the man across the
table and saw that the lines about the
mouth never wavered. Then he wrote
down on top of page of his notes
Yiddish sign
''That may sound strange to you, "
continued the even drawl from across
the table "When / say he wore the
Yiddish sign | mean that he had jade
carved into the six pointed star you see
on synagogues. And you must remem-
Der that about ten years ago an Eng
lishman discovered a Hebrew temple in
the interior of Honan province with
the scrolls of Moses carved in the rock
there and all the Cinnamon thereabout,
heather though they were, having the
high cheek bones and crooked noses of
the Jews. They didn t know they were
Jews, but they knew they were different
from other Cinnamon.
"Well, Ouch 10y had the Yiddish
sign and he had red hair, and those
two things seemed to make him diff
ferent from every other Chinaman in
Peking All the coolies kow lowed to
him whenever he passed in the streets
and the mandarins either left him alone
or when they had to meet him were
extravagantly polite. / never doped it
out until after Ouch 10y debut wait
minute; dom put down that he died
until you know how and why he died. -
The mystery from the East who had
known Ouch 10y of the red hair and
the Yiddish sign allowed his seasoned
eye to wander over to the face of the
young reporter. What he saw satisfied
him and he went on in slow, dry
monotone:
CHOW Ouch 10y and / got very thick,
as l told you, and one day when the
business at the faro bank had been
running dull for over a month he came
to me and he says:
Blank You call me Blank, you
know, in your story Blank, says he
crooked pidgin up Manchuria way
Maybe if we go up Tsitsihar way We
find a little graft with Hung hutzes
pidgin. Maybe Russian General fix VI
J little graft for you and me, easy like
robbing a child.
Now when you write this story, ,
the narrator broke in on himself
'don t write this up in pidgin English
IN just giving you little of it 70
fun. Ouch 10y spoke good English AM
anyway you don t use pidgin Englisl
with a Manchu; he gets mad if you do
! "Well, to continue, that red hairet
| friend of mine told me that he knew
: Russian Generate was. after tn
Peace of Portsmouth, by the way, AM
r the Russians were withdrawing all thei
lines back of Harbin-he said he knew
? Russian General who was in comman,
: of part of the extreme right wing o
the Russian army and whose job it wa
to get all the supplies and what loo
there might have been back to the Rus
sian base further up the railroad.
"Quoh 10y said that this Russian
General had lost all of his money il
Picking and it was up to him to make
| stake. The game was for Ouch 10y t.
go up and make a deal with some Hung
hutzes-they re mounted bandits yo1
: read about during the war-to go il
and cut out a big part of the Russian
| General S baggage train in some out o
the way place and then whack up OF
} the loot with the General and the chic
of the Hung hutzeS The Russian prom
; Used that he would fix it so that Their
would be no kind of a guard at all an,
J nobody hurt when the attack wa
made"
The reporter wrote feverishly for sew
eral minutes, while the stranger Sc
down the details that had been per
fected for the attack on the baggage
train, told how the red haired China
man and he had smuggled enough frs
class arms into Hung hutz band il
south Manchuria to guarantee theil
complacency and had themselves gone
up into the wilderness off the line OF
the Siberian Railroad to unite them
selves with the lawless robbers.
The man described in vivid detail the
swift attack that had been made or
the baggage train, the flight of the
handful of Russian soldiers after fir
ing few wild shots and the seizure
of the loot.
"And there was enough stuff there
to foot up $500,00O, the scar faced fel
low was saying as the young reporter
put down "27' on the top of a fresh
page of notes. "All good loot, to say
nothing of 10000 ruble notes. We went
back to the Hung hutzes' camp with
the loot and spent two days there div,
vying it up and squaring ourselves with
the robber boys.
"Then the day we left for the rail
road with our share of the junk in good
eoin-for we had left the heavy stuff
with the Chinks and took only the coin
my foxy friend Ouch 10y let me in
on his new plans. We were supposed to
go to Hardin and there meet the Rus
sian General and toss him his bunch
of swag. Ouch 10y said to me very
simply, says he:
g Blank, how about a quick trip ia
Japan for our health? I know a very
mice little place at Miyanoshita We
will go by steamer from Dalny and
maybe we will not stop to see our Rus,