1908 article on "Spigotty" Land--origin of "spic"? Antedating of "spik"

[Jonathon Green]

> It sure lends credence to the theory that "spic/spik" comes from the =
> pidgin English in the Canal Zone.
> 
As does this:

1913 Harry A. Franck Zone Policeman 88 [from Internet] It was my first entrance into the land of the panamenos, technically known on the Zone as ‘Spigoties,’ and familiarly, with a tinge of despite, as ‘Spigs’; because the first Americans to arrive in the land found a few natives and cabmen who claimed to ‘Speaga dee Eng-leesh.’

Jonathon Green