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PORTLAND, OREGON
A. D. 1999

AND OTHER SKETCHES

By JEFF W. HAYES

AUTHOR OF

“Tales of the Sierras”

“Looking Backward at Portland”

Etc.

Publishers:

F. W. Baltes and Company

Portland, Oregon

1913

Copyrighted 1913

All rights reserved

[Dedication]

TO THE CITIZENS OF PORTLAND AND TO THE DEAR FRIENDS OF MY EARLIER LIFE THIS VOLUME IS LOVINGLY DEDICATED

[Contents]

Part I.
Page
[Chapter 1,]The Visitor [1]
[Chapter 2,]The Prophecy[4]
[Chapter 3,]More Startling Prophecies[15]
[Chapter 4,]Old Names Revived [21]
[Chapter 5,]Prophetess Grows Jocose[28]
[Chapter 6][30]
[Chapter 7,]More Denouements [31]
[Chapter 8,]Politics Discussed [33]
[Chapter 9,]Strange Occurrences [35]
Part II.
[The Bad Man From Bodie ][43]
[He Never Came Back][51]
[Where Did You Get That Oil?][55]
[A Grapevine Telegraph Line][59]
[Along the Shore][63]
[Showing Off][67]
[“Knifin' de Dough”][71]
[A Musical Aborigine][75]
[“The Gentleman of Havre”][77]
[On the Wing][79]
[He Knew a Good Thing][83]
[Inadequate Cuspidors][87]
[No Jobs, But Vacancies][89]
[Phenomenal Telegraphing][91]
[His Old Kentucky Home][95]
[The Office at Spirit Lake][97]
[The Indians Were Too Loyal][99]
[A Governor for Fifteen Minutes Took the Bull by the Horns][101]
[The Seven Mounds][105]
[When Gold Grew on Sage Brush][111]

[Preface.]

In introducing my little romance to the public, I do so with little misgivings or apologies.

The close observer will agree that the changes that are anticipated—here related as established facts—are merely the signs of the times, and that not one-half of the story is told.

One might wish to be a living witness of the great projects occurring A. D. 1999, and may possibly resent that he was not born later on in the cycles of Time, but if his heart is in the right place he can realize that there is nothing lost, and his soul goes marching onward and upward in its eternal flight.

“Oh, sometimes gleams upon our sight

Thro’ present wrong, the eternal right;

And step by step, since time began,

We see the steady gain of Man.”