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- A frontier plains family has their home attacked by a group of Native Americans.
- Fred, a lawyer and real estate agent in a frontier town, receives a letter that Miss Edythe Sterling, of Dallas, Texas, will shortly call on him. He is to give her all assistance possible as to purchasing a suitable ranch. Edythe arrives. Several weeks pass. She decides on a ranch and Fred makes arrangements for its owner to be out at the place that afternoon. Edythe, who is somewhat a ventriloquist, imitates the sound of a rattlesnake and gives Fred a bad scare. Two crooks, recently released from jail, have sworn to "get" Fred, who, they claim, railroaded them. They have taken up their abode at the deserted ranch that Edythe has chosen. A holdup occurs. The victim rides in for the sheriff. Fred and Edythe arrive at the ranch. While waiting, he proposes to her, but is rejected. Fred decides to ride down to the nearest ranch house and again 'phone to the ranch owner, which he does. The two crooks return to the shack. Edythe, terrified, takes refuge in the closet. Fred returns and the two crooks find that they have in their power the man they have sworn to "get." About to shoot him, Edythe, in the closet, has a sudden inspiration. She imitates the sizz of a rattlesnake. When the two crooks jump, she emerges and gains the upper hand. The sheriff and his posse appear. The ranch owner also appears. The sale is concluded. Fred, looking over the deed, discovers that it has been made out in his name. He soon knows the reason why.
- Betty, a ranchman's pretty daughter, has a birthday. All the cowboys have presents for her in hopes of gaining her favor. There is a cowboy villain in the piece; a comic opera villain. He is very self-important and is certain he will capture Betty with his present. He is a Joke with Betty and the boys, and vows all kinds of revenge. Betty is really in love with Joe Franz, a handsome, but very bashful cowboy. She visits the Padre and tells him of Joe's bashfulness and the Father gives her some advice. Betty starts to flirt to arouse Joe's jealousy and succeeds very well. She flirts with the villain. Joe goes to the Padre for consolation. The Padre advises Joe to disguise himself as the villain, kidnap Betty and meet him at a cave, where he will marry them. The marriage takes place and Betty is scared into keeping it secret. She thinks she is married to the villain and when he sends for her she is about to go, but Joe is on the job. He routs the villain and informs Betty that she is his wife.
- It was an accident that brought Dolly and Fred together, but it was not an accident that caused Jose, the half breed, to lose his job. When he attempted to make love to Dolly, the ranchman promptly discharged him. Jose decides that walking papers are not to his liking. He steals Fred's horse. The ranchman, Fred and Dolly observe him, and, calling in several ranch hands, they give chase. Fred finally corners Jose, but his gun becomes clogged. To escape from the greaser's bullets. Fred takes refuge in a deserted mining shaft, hanging by a rope. Here Jose finds him and cuts the rope. But the earth gives way and Jose, too, falls to the bottom of the shaft, where, after a struggle, he is overpowered by Fred. Dolly and the others hear Fred's calls for help. The two men are brought from the shaft and the story ends happily for Fred and Dolly.
- Frank and Bert are rivals for the hand of Nell. Bert, recognized by the sheriff as a wanted man, is placed under arrest. Frank is accepted by Nell, and the two are married. A year passes. Bert is released from prison and returns home, only to have the memory of Nell haunting him constantly. He goes to the cabin of Nell and Frank, finds her alone, and endeavors to make love to her. She resents and in the struggle that ensues she receives a long scratch on the cheek. But she succeeds in obtaining his gun and ordering him from the house. Frank returns, asks her how she received the scratch and when she tells him that the baby did it, he becomes suspicious. Bert realizes that if Frank should find his gun trouble would follow. He employs Pedro, a Mexican, to leave a note where Frank will be certain to find it, to the effect that he, Bert, will meet Nell at the well at two o'clock. Frank finds the note and goes to the well. Bert then returns to Nell's home. Frank hears her screams and runs back. He enters the house and the two men fight. The stove is overturned, and the house catches fire. Nell seizes the little baby and rushes outside, just in time to prevent Pedro from shooting in the window at her husband. As the men are fighting inside, one of their guns is discharged and the bullet, going through the window, wounds Pedro. The sheriff and posse arrive just in time to rescue Frank from the burning house, which collapses, burying Bert with it.
- It was an accident that brought Fred and Lillian together. When a shoe came off his horse's foot Fred hastened to the blacksmith shop, and it was there that he met Lillian, the smith's daughter. Before he left she managed to slip into his pocket a horse shoe, the symbol of good luck. Fred later finds the horse shoe. As is customary he hangs it over his door. Later he again comes to town and from the express office gets a package of money. Homeward bound, he sees Lillian about to enter her house. In an attempt to become better acquainted with her, Fred feigns illness. He is taken into her home, where mustard plasters and bitter bills fall to his lot. The package of money falls from his pocket. Lillian picks it up. He tells her to keep it until he is better. Charlie, a ne'er do well, a friend of Jay, the blacksmith's assistant, eyes the money longingly. He confides to Jay about the ranchman's money and when an hour later, Fred has recovered and started back to his ranch, they go after him. Charlie with thoughts of the money, but Jay thinking only of beating up his rival. They arrive at the ranch and hold up Fred. But Fred has forgotten the money. Lillian rides after him with it. She hears angry voices in the ranch house. Peering in she sees Jay and Charlie viciously attacking Fred. Then the horse shoe over the door catches her eye. She snatches it up, dashes in the door and orders "Hand up." Taken off their guard, Jay and Charlie comply. They see through the ruse and turn again to Fred, only to find themselves covered with a six-shooter.
- Slim's suggestion that he and the boys take advantage of the special excursion at Breezy Beach starts the cowhands of the Bar S ranch on an outing that deprives them of more than their money. Had Slim known that his sweetheart and her difficult mother had taken an auto trip in the same direction the same day, he definitely would have stayed home, or at least would have deported himself in a more circumspect manner. To secure enough money to pay for his new-found friends' dinners at the Breezy Beach Café, Slim borrows all the boys' suits, socks, and neckerchiefs from the bathhouse. Meanwhile, Slim's intended and her mother have located the girls and incidentally hear of the café engagement. Molly and her mother disguise themselves as the showgirls and meet the café engagement themselves. A note which Slim had unintentionally left behind informed the boys what was to happen, and clothed in bathing suits and pleasant smiles, they swooped down on the café in a body. The incidents that follow are full of ludicrous situations.
- Arthur is ordered by the head ranger to proceed to the Hole in the Wall country, and not to return from there until he has captured Smiling Joe, apparently an insane bandit. Joe, however, is a normal being, when he is captured by Arthur he schemes for his liberty. Joe sees Arthur looking at a portrait of a young girl in his watch case. He tells Arthur that the girl whose photo he is carrying is his daughter. He elaborates and tells of his once owning a small ranch in this region, how his home was destroyed and he was driven out by the cattlemen. At the conclusion of the tale, Arthur decides to set him free again, but on further thought takes him back to headquarters. He then goes to Dolly's home and tells her of his having arrested her father. Joe makes a getaway from the ranger's office. Pursued, he takes refuge in Dolly's home. But the rangers trace him and once again he is captured. Joe sees Dolly and Arthur together and gives Arthur the laugh for having fallen for his untrue story. And as it happens Dolly's real father returns unexpectedly from the east.
- Colonel Custard is awakened from his afternoon sleep by a bugle blowing in his ear. The bugler proves to be his daughter's lover. The irate Colonel hurls a bucket out of the window at the intruder, but instead the bucket falls on the head of Chief Standing Cow, who returns to his people and invites them to the war path. Meanwhile, the boob bugler has taken refuge from the Colonel's wrath in a mortar canon. The Indians arrive and a terrific fight begins. Against her father's wishes Molly sneaks out of the fort to go for help. The Indians see her and pursue, chasing her in a deserted cabin, where, unable to break in the door, they start to burn the cabin down. At the fort the soldiers fire the mortar. The boob is shot into space, and lands on the top of the cabin in which Molly is. He kills the Indians and then the two retreat to the fort. There, too, the bugler puts the Indians to rout.
- Skates salesman Fred Jackson and his wife land in Cuckooville and size up the town for customers. They see Pretzel standing in front of his store. Fred sends his wife over to buy a pair of skates. Pretzel informs her he has none for sale. When Fred shows Pretzel the skates he has for sale. Pretzel immediately buys a pair, and, running after Fred's wife, sells her the pair. She skates around the village. Soon a skating epidemic hits the town. Business is so good that Fred proposes to Pretzel that they start a skating rink, Pretzel to furnish the money. A rink is started. To bolster up business an exhibition skating contest is given, in which Pretzel does fancy skating. Money pours in. Pretzel is delighted, but seeing Fred skating with the girl, he decides to make him mind the box office while he skates with her. This suits Fred. While Pretzel skates, Fred fills his pockets from the receipts and giving the girl the signal, prepares a getaway. Fred and his wife jump into an automobile and start for the station, the skaters following. Pretzel overtakes the auto, and, catching behind, is dragged up to the station as the train pulls in. Fred and his wife rush to the train. Pretzel tries to get to his feet, but the skates keep slipping from under him.
- When Fred, the sheriff of Tulare County, receives word that his younger brother, across the line in Inyo County, has been elected sheriff, he entrusts affairs with his deputies and starts over to offer his congratulations. Jay, the defeated candidate for sheriff, picks a quarrel with Jack, the younger sheriff. He snatches Jack's gun, and coolly insults him. Jack grabs Jay's gun and draws on him. Jay calls attention to the fact that he is shooting in self-defense. When the elder brother arrives he finds his brother dead, and he is prevented from shooting Jay by bystanders who tell him that Jay only protected himself. Jay leaves. Fred examines the gun in Jack's hand, which Jack had snatched from Jay. Finding it empty, he at once realizes that his brother met death through a deliberate murder. He informs the bystanders that he intends to avenge his brother's death if he has to follow Jay to perdition. The man hunt begins. Into the desert the two men go. A sandstorm comes up. Both lose their horses. Days pass. Reduced to his last shell Fred fires, only to miss. Jay sees him throw away his gun and starts for him. Fred is helpless from weakness. Jay kicks and curses him and edges off with his gun covering him. He, too, has expended his ammunition. Knife in hand, Jay starts for him, and with the strength of a cornered beast the sheriff wards him off. The death struggle begins. When the sun sets the sheriff stands over the man, his oath of vengeance fulfilled.
- Fred, the school teacher at Angel Camp, has fallen in love with Edythe, one of his pupils. On account of his small salary he has never dared to propose. A reward has been offered for the capture of a bandit. Through finding a note, Fred learns a robbery has been planned. The day following, when he calls upon Edythe to recite, she tells him she can't, showing him her book with a piece torn from the page. Fred discovers the note he found matches with the torn page. School over, Fred tells Edythe to send her brother to him. The teacher accuses Jay, the brother, who confesses he and another party had planned to hold up the Angel Camp Saloon. Fred ties Jay up, then proceeds to the saloon. First fixing up his arm in a sling, concealing in his hand a gun. Joe enters the saloon, orders a drink and, whipping out a gun, commands hands up. Through his bandage Fred fires, wounding Joe in the arm and overpowering him. Edythe, who has followed her brother to the school, releases him. Jay hurries to the saloon. There he shows Fred a deputy sheriff badge, telling him he had arranged the affair to catch Joe, of whom he was suspicious. A little later Fred tells Edythe Jay is going to divide the reward "With Us."
- Edythe felt her dying father's wish must be fulfilled. She goes to the west, where, heavily veiled, she becomes the wife of Fred, the son of her father's old friend. During the ceremony Edythe notices that Fred is under the influence of liquor. While his cowboy friends are congratulating him she slips away, happy in the thought that her father's hope has been realized, but herself feeling that she never wants to see her husband again. She notices an antique wedding ring, which was Fred's mother's lying on the dresser. Joe, the director of the Standard Motion Picture Company, seeks to make Edythe his leading lady. She refuses. During the filming of a scene the heavy man is suddenly taken ill. Nearby the director observes Fred, a ragged tramp. He persuades him to take the part. The scene is between a brutal husband, Fred, and the mistreated wife, Edythe. Fred's portrayal is excellent, and the director offers him a steady engagement. Edythe recognizes in the tramp her husband. Something about Edythe puzzles Fred. A month passes. Fred has arisen to a better place in the company. Seated by Edythe one day, he has it on his lips to propose, but does not, knowing that he is a married man. A unique ring on her finger attracts his attention. He recognizes his own wedding ring. Edith feels that after all, her father's last wish "was not an unwise one."
- A young doctor, Harry Lewis by name, was bred in the little town town as Abajo, New Mexico. Close neighbors with him was a widow with her daughter, Molly. The two children were raised together from childhood and formed an attachment for each other. As time went on Harry went east to medical college and studied medicine. In the meantime while Harry was at college, Lee Balek, a prosperous young ranchman, began to pay attentions to Molly. A few years later when Harry finished his college term and received his diploma as an M.D., he returned to his little native town and began to renew his romance with Molly. He proposes to her, but she is a little doubtful whether she still cares for him, and he reminds her that she promised, years before, to become his wife. She tells him to return tomorrow for his answer. Lee, who was on his way to call on Molly, sees the little scene being acted at the house of the girl whom he thinks is his sweetheart. He becomes very jealous at this and does not call on her. After leaving Molly, Harry on his way home passes the telegraph station. The operator stops him and delivers a message to him that was just received, offering him a position as intern at a big hospital in a nearby city, but he must take up his residence at once. He discovers that he has not time to return to Molly and tell her goodbye, but writes a short note to her telling her to write to him and send her answer there. Lewis goes on his way to prepare for the journey. In the meantime Lee has come up to the station to mail a letter. The operator, knowing him to be a constant caller at Molly's house, asks him to deliver the note for him. Thinking that if he can get hold of the note he might cause Molly to feel badly towards Lewis, he agrees to deliver the message, which he does not do. Instead, he goes to Molly's home and tells her of Lewis leaving without a word to her, and proves his statement by showing her Lewis getting on the train going away. Molly is grief-stricken, thinking that she has been jilted by Lewis, but it does not help Lee's attentions to her whatever. A short while afterward Molly decades to devote her life to nursing, and she enters the Mercy Hospital at Denver, as a probationary nurse. Time elapses and we find Harry the physician in charge of St. Joseph's and Molly has become quite an important nurse of Mercy Hospital. One day Lee is standing at the railroad station in a little town talking to the operator, when the mail train passes, dropping the mail sack and striking Lee in the side, knocking him down and injuring him internally. He is carried to the hospital of which Harry is in charge. The head nurse there, finding herself short of nurses, wires Mercy Hospital in Denver for a few nurses to be sent on to her. They are sent and Molly is one of them. She is put in charge of Lee's case as private nurse. Upon examination of Lee the doctors agree that the only chance he has for life is to be operated on; Harry is asked to perform the operation. The patient is taken to the operating room and Molly, doing her duty as a nurse, shows Lee every comfort possible, which causes jealousy to spring up in Harry's heart. Just as he is about to perform the operation, the thought comes to his mind that if he should not do the operation correctly Lee might die, and he would have a clear field with Molly. He has quite a struggle with himself between love and professional duty, finally deciding that for Molly's sake, he must perform the operation and bring Lee on his feet again. He does so. A few days later, while in the sick room, he places Molly's hand in that of Lee's and congratulates them, but Molly, thinking more of Harry, decides to tell him so. They leave the room together and Lee, seeing what misery he is causing, decides to confess the wrong he did. He does so and gives the note that was sent by Harry to Molly to her. She reads it and sees how they have both suffered. Happiness is brought to them and even to Lee to think that he has made the girl he cares for happy.
- The political boss in an eastern city learns that Malcolm Blevins, a district attorney is going to the west to draw up a report of incriminating evidence of the graft conditions of his city. Realizing that such a report would be detrimental to himself and his partners in crime he commissions Fred to obtain the report and to silence Blevins forever. Lillian has two suitors, Fred and Jay, and after much consideration accepts Fred. Later her father is mystified by the sudden disappearance of the report which he had placed in his safe. Seated in his office he feels conscious of the close proximity of another. Without changing his position, he grasps his revolver and wheels around just as a hand, which holds a dagger is projected through a picture hanging on the wall. He fires several shots. Lillian, who has fallen in a well while going to the sheriff for her father, and has crawled through a tunnel, comes upon a door she never noticed before, which she enters just as the shots are fired. She is shot but not seriously wounded. Fred, having received a mortal wound, smiles up to Lillian and confesses that he was sent to follow Blevins, and recommends her to Jay's loving care.
- Pretzel and Schnitzel are rivals for the hand of the Widow O'Laughagin. Pretzel is the driver of the bakery wagon; Schnitzel peddles groceries. Frank and his sweetheart Molly quarrel and Frank meets the widow and falls in love with her. She informs Pretzel and Schnitzel that whoever wins a horse race will win her hand in marriage. Pretzel and Schnitzel dope each other's horses, but by mistake the druggist gave the men fast instead of slow dope. The race starts; the dope works. The widow gets tired of waiting, meets Frank, and consents to take a walk with him. Molly meets the cop on the beat and takes a liking to him. The baker and grocer miss their wagons and notify the police. Pretzel and Schnitzel finally get their horses turned around and come back. They are chased by the police, but finally find protection by hiding behind the widow and Frank, and Moly and the cop, as they hold an impromptu double wedding.
- Fred receives an invitation from his uncle to visit him in the west and at the same time that a telegram comes stating that a moving picture concern wants a scenario from a melodrama at 12 o'clock the next day. Arriving in the west, Fred captures a gunman is persuaded to release him by the gunman's sister, Lillian, who takes Fred's eye. Fred loses his heart. Charlie, the gunman, later sees Fred talking to his sister, and thinking that Fred is a government spy stationed in the west to capture a band of counterfeiters, of which he is a member; he tells the rest of the gang about him. They send him a letter warning him to get out of the country. Fred pays no attention to it. They capture him and lock him in a deserted cabin, bound before the muzzle of a gun which will explode as the clock strikes twelve. Lillian hears of it, and rushes to the cabin after phoning the sheriff. Fred manages to free himself, and falls to the floor just in time to miss the bullet, which goes through the wall into the body of Lillian, who has come to lend aid Fred hastens to her and realizes that she is dead, just as he wakens to find himself bent over his typewriter where he has fallen asleep. He proceeds to pound out his story, knowing that his dream will make a plot, which he can easily finish by 12 o'clock.
- Richard's sister arrives at his ranch in the west, where she hopes to regain her health. In preparation of this the town committee has commanded the constable to close all saloons and drive the gamblers from the community. On the day following her arrival she takes a walk. Unfamiliar with the village, she wanders into a questionable part and is insulted by some toughs. Joe Fraser, the gambler king, befriends her by knocking the insulter down and then offers to show her home, an offer which she gladly accepts. When Richard tells her of the gambler's character, she refuses to believe him until taken past the notice which commands all gamblers, particularly Joe Frazer, to leave town by the 25th. Several days later, Lucille and her father, riding in the mountains, are left stranded when the horses bolt. Back in the village, the gamblers are leaving. Frazer comes upon them, weak from thirst and offers them his horse. They accept and Frazer pushes ahead afoot. He finds a bag, lost by the girl, containing jewels. Several days later the father is persuaded to go in search of her lost jewels. After hours of search they come upon the body of the gambler lying in the sands, dead, the mesh bag on his breast and a revolver in his hand. Gently removing the jewel bag from the man's grasp, all notice a card, the deuce of spades, upon which is written, "It was best; I was out of my class,"
- Edwin Wright, an artist, falls in love with his uncle's ward, Agnes Worth. Their affair progresses and he becomes engaged to her. He is desirous of obtaining western atmosphere in his paintings and to that end makes a trip to the far west. He paints several pictures at different spots, most of them near the residence of a band of Indians. One day, as he is painting, he is struck with the beauty of an Indian maiden whom he sees filling her olla at the water hole. He gets her to pose for him and a month later has completed a canvas which he feels he will never equal. The picture is a full length panel of the Indian maiden, Waneta, holding her olla. He sends this cast to Agnes deeming her worthy of his best work as well as of everything else he has that is best. Not long after he has sent the portrait east he receives a newspaper clipping telling him of Agnes' engagement to a boyhood rival. He is heartbroken. The emotional reaction which follows this news, determines him to take Waneta as a wife. He buys her from her father and the two are married after a quaint Indian ceremony. For a time they are happy, but Edwin feels the call of his own kind sometimes and a letter from his uncle crystallizes this feeling into a determination to return to his eastern home and to Agnes. The letter gives him news which forces him to the conclusion that the newspaper story was a false one and be reverts to his original love of Agnes, or so he thinks. He goes back east, and there he is again much with Agnes. She has admired the painting a great deal and when he comes, admires it more in his hearing. Every word, of course, is a reminder of the poor little Indian girl whom he has deserted. His uncle has promised him $100,000 on the day he marries Agnes and is doing everything possible to push the matter along. Edwin is torn by doubts, however, and feels that things cannot return to their old basis between himself and Agnes until he has told her of his affair with the Indian girl. Silas Marler, the uncle, councils strongly against this. His hard, mercenary old soul causes him to tell Edwin to marry Agnes and say nothing of the Indian girl. Both he and Edwin are sure she will never cause trouble, but Edwin is made of finer stuff than his relative and finally confesses to Agnes his love and his sin. Agnes is horror stricken, but despite the revelation, continues to love him as much as ever. Her love is indeed so great that she is unselfish in it, and urges Edwin to return to the Indian girl, to whom he owes a duty. She tells him to go. Obedient to her, he goes. Once back at the Indian village he finds Waneta and with her, his reward, a baby son. Thus out of his sorrow and grief, the obedience to his duty brings him his reward and poor Agnes is left to bear the sorrow that is woman's portion all too frequently.
- Willard and Mary are deeply in love. Willard is the son of a wealthy banker, while Mary is poor. When Willard tells his father, he raves about it. So inflamed does his mind become that even late that afternoon while seated beneath the trees on the lawn with his wife, Mrs. Hammond, enjoying their afternoon tea, the maid happening to slip on the grass spills a cup over the still irate banker. He flies up in a tirade and orders Mrs. Hammond to discharge the girl. Willard hastens to Mary, tells her all about the teacup incident and begs her to take the position of maid. No sooner is she established as a regular member of the household than father "falls" for her charms. He even gives her a bracelet intended for his wife, and Willard finds the card addressed to his mother, and he also finds Mary and Dad in compromising attitude. His plan has worked better than he thought and with this double evidence of his father's susceptibility he forces the game and lays down his pat hand, the note about the bracelet, while Mary wears the trinket before Mrs. Hammond. There is nothing to it, either Dad must confess himself a flirt or a trifler with his own servants or tell Mrs. Hammond it was all a jest, and he takes the latter course, and thus are Mary and Willard united.
- In the days of '49, when the rush for gold was on, Jim Rogers with his wife and their eight year old daughter, Ruth, were among the settlers. They meet the Ward family. A gang of bandits have hoisted their tents in the vicinity of the settlers' camping grounds. That night the settlers are attacked and the bandit chief, after taking the locket from Mrs. Roger's neck, abducts Ruth and one of the Ward children. The next morning, the mother is found by a Westerner who takes her to his home. Six months later the bandit quits the outlaw life. Then years pass by. The outlaw chief tells the children, now grown to man and womanhood that he is not their father, but that he is merely a reformed bandit. The children are horror stricken. One day while the boy and girl are at the village store Mrs. Rogers with the ranchwoman come up to the store just as Ruth and her supposed brother are leaving. The mother recognizes the locket, and after explanations she finds her long-lost daughter. Later Ruth and John plead with the mother to forgive the reformed bandit, for he has been so good to them and is the only father they have ever known. Finally the mother forgives the bandit.