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- Wrong captions under photos in a newspaper make the hero the bandit and vice versa. Also, hold-ups, spurts of horse flesh and the hero saved by the ranchman's daughter from being lynched by her rejected sheriff lover.
- Jack Marston is the sheriff of a western town and Jennie, his sister, is postmistress and operator at the stage station. Among the inhabitants of the town is an Indian breed. An outcast from his own people, he is looked down upon by the race of his adoption, although his education has included a college course. The express company has posted a reward for the apprehension of one Apache Kid and his band of fellow robbers. The next night the band arrive in the town and hold up one of the main saloons. Peggy, a dance hall girl, takes the fancy of the leader, the Apache Kid, and he abducts her and takes her with them when they make their escape. After dividing the loot the band separates. The Kid takes Peggy and hides in the nearby hills. The sheriff and his party pursue the bandits, but lose them in the rocky canyons. The breed has accompanied the posse and wanders off alone to trace the bandits in his own way. The sheriff, too, becomes separated from his men and is seen by the Apache Kid. The bandit captures the sheriff and leaves a note to the posse, telling them to quit searching for the bandits and to bring him five thousand dollars under penalty of finding the sheriff shot full of holes. The posse, realizing the life of the sheriff is in danger, hurry back to the town to raise the money, but the bandits' haul has been such a large one that there is hardly five thousand dollars left in the town. Jennie wires to the nearest express office, telling them to send the money, and arranges relay horses so as to get the money before sunrise next morning. Next morning the Kid is awaiting the sunrise to see whether he kills the sheriff or not. Through an accident, the breed locates the hiding place and attacks the bandit. His superior strength prevails and the bandit is thrown over the cliff. Jennie has received the money, and accompanied by a posse, makes all haste to take the money to the Apache Kid. Her surprise and joy are unbounded when the party meet the breed, Peggy and the sheriff returning. They learn of the bandit's death and the bravery shown by the breed. The sheriff recalls his debt to the breed and regrets the humiliating remarks made to the latter when he had warned him to stay away from the girl. As the story ends, the girl finds her trust in the breed was justified and the others begin to look upon him with more respect and honor.
- Major Carter, owner of the Sunset mines, reads of a reward offered for Cheyenne Harry if captured. The butler gives him a telegram telling of the flooding of several shafts in his mine. He is soon on the way to the mine in his car. Ruth, his daughter, follows in her roadster. In the hills, Cheyenne Harry reads the newspaper account of himself. As he looks at the road below he sees the sheriff and several of his men riding. Harry picks up a stone and succeeds in hitting the sheriff. The sheriff and his men dismount, but they can find no one. Harry has disappeared. Ruth's car sticks fast in crossing a stream, and when she sees Harry riding toward her, she calls to him to help her. At first he refuses, but he finally agrees to let her ride his horse while he leads it. He tells her that he is going to get even with her father by taking her to his hang-out. On the sly, she succeeds in tearing up some of her cards and scattering them along the way. Down by the stream her father and the sheriff meet, and all start to trail the horse, after finding her car. Later they came across the torn cards, and it is an easy matter to find the cave. The sheriff calls to Harry to surrender and he answers with a shot. They exchange many shots and finally Ruth begs him to surrender and trust her. Harry consents and waves a flag of truce, but the sheriff shoots him through the shoulder. Ruth starts to bind Harry's wound and the men come up. She tells them that he is her prisoner, and that she will drive him back to town. The sheriff says a deputy must go along. Ruth agrees, and they start. She drives fast and is soon ahead of the other machine. She has engine trouble and the deputy gets out to see what is the matter. Quickly she starts the car and he is left behind. She drives to the river and points to Harry that his road lies ahead. At dinner that night Ruth has a vision of Harry sitting at the table with her.
- A young woman tries to help Indians who are being mistreated by a corrupt Indian agent.
- Dora Mason, in boy's garb, has lost her last nugget playing the roulette wheel, and "Cheyenne" Harry, never guessing her to be a girl, notices that something is wrong. He tells her to wait outside the saloon and begins to play. Suddenly he shoots out the lights, grabs the stakes and banker's pile and dashes for the door. Failing to see the girl, he rushes to his horse and rides down the road. At dawn Harry is resting, for he has eluded his pursuers. Suddenly hearing a noise, he calls "Halt," but the figure continuing to run, he fires. Dora falls. Recognizing her scream as a woman's, he is horrified. He runs down to help her. She tries to be brave, but is frightened at the sight of her own blood. He places her on his horse and takes her to a deserted shack, where he binds her wound and attempts to soothe her. She tells him she was left alone when her father, a miner, died, and has dressed as a boy, for it was easier than being a girl in the desert. Realizing the seriousness of her injury, he rides to town, in spite of her efforts to stop him from taking such a risk. Entering the saloon, he forces the bartender to give him a bottle of whiskey, then grabs the man's apron and dashes back to the shack, aware that he is being followed by the cowboys. Instructing the girl to stick a pole with the apron tied to it out the window as soon as he has had time to escape, "Cheyenne" bids her good-by. The cowboys starting to fire the shack see the flag of truce and cautiously enter the building. They find the girl, who pretends to faint, and forget they are hunting a criminal and carry her back to the town. "Cheyenne" sees the men leaving with Dora and smiles at her cleverness.
- Before dying, a man's friend asks him to do his best to keep the truth that he was a robber from his son.
- "Bow-Legged" Billy Jenson, Sheriff of Driftwood, declares for law and order. Kitty Flanders, daughter of a pioneer prospector whose wife is dead, falls in love with him. The Sheriff, fearless in all things else, is timid when it comes to love-making. A masked bandit, believed to be "Lone Jack," holds up the stagecoach near Flap-Jack. A cowboy, riding in the distance, sees the robbery and reports it to Deputy Sheriff Horton. The bandit is Pete McGuire. McGuire returns to Driftwood. Deputy Horton also arrives in Driftwood seeking the robber. Seeing McGuire, the Deputy watches him. Kitty goes to the store for groceries, where Pete McGuire watches her admiringly. Sheriff Billy Jenson is watching Pete suspiciously. Pete surmises that Kitty and the Sheriff are sweethearts. A rough-neck drunk approaches Kitty and insults her. Pete McGuire interferes, and plays the "hero." Kitty permits Pete to walk home with her, much to the discomfiture of the Sheriff. That night the Sheriff and his deputy, Horton, compare notes and become convinced Pete is the bandit. Horton insists on the right to capture Pete unaided. One of the saloon habitues over- hears their plan, and "tips" Pete. The latter hides in a deserted outhouse, but is loath to leave camp, as he wants to obtain Flanders' mine. The following morning Pete sees Flanders on his way to the mine and follows him. Deputy Horton sees Pete and follows him. Flanders discovers that he is being followed and hides behind a rock, gun drawn. Pete also hides, knowing that it is Horton who is after him. Both Flanders and Pete are taking aim at Horton when the latter comes upon Flanders. Before Flanders or Horton can realize their mutual mistake, Flanders and Horton have both fired. Flanders believes the second shot (the one fired by Pete) is the echo of his own. Horror-stricken, he believes he has unintentionally killed the deputy. Pete confronts him and encourages the mistake. He tells Flanders he is likely to be hanged by the vigilantes. Pete agrees to seal his lips if Flanders will deed Pete one-half of the mine and "fix it" for him to marry Kitty. Flanders confesses to his daughter that he killed Horton. Pete woos Kitty and her father pleads with Kitty to look with favor on his courtship. Billy, the sheriff, has no evidence on Pete. He is therefore compelled to step aside and allow the man he believes is a bandit to woo his sweetheart. Kitty and Pete are to be married, and she is forced to tell Billy, she loves Pete. Pete tells the boys to defy the sheriff. They start a rough house. Billy tells them to be- have or leave town. It is now a show-down. The sheriff is about to draw his gun, but his love for Kitty still checks him. Flanders learns that Kitty is heartbroken over her prospective marriage. He decides to save her, and to make clean breast of everything to the sheriff. He does so. Billy is amazed and says, "You're crazy; the bullet that killed Horton was a .44 steel-jacket. Your gun shoots a .38 soft-nose." Flanders is amazed and recalls the "echo." The sheriff tells Flanders it was the "echo" that killed Horton. He decides to take Pete's gun away from him and examine it. Kitty has admitted that she hates Pete and loves Billy, so Billy now has a clear road to kill or capture Pete. Everyone in camp believes that he is afraid of Pete. Billy enters the saloon, walks up to Pete, and quietly lifts the gun from Pete's holster, confirming his suspicions that Pete's is a .44 hard-nose. A gun battle ensues and Pete is slain.
- A western saloon sells more liquor than a distillery can make, and a salesman, to fill, the heavy demand, tries to introduce a new drink (Turkish Opal) into the town. The saloon-keeper agrees to take one thousand cases if the boys like it and the two await the arrival of customers. The boys from the Bar U, five in number, are towing to town an aeroplane which has broken down. They arrive in time to have the salesman try his "Turkish Opal" on them. The drink wins favor at once and they then return to resume the towing. The drink is potent, and is all the salesman claims for it. Returning to the plane, one of the boys points to the ground where a Turkish rug appears. They decide to see how it feels to sit in an aeroplane, and the machine gently rises with them. They approach a town, and on close view it proves to be a typical Turkish city. The streets are crowded with Turks. Then the boys crash through the roof into a palace room, where a beautiful woman is discovered. They win her favor and she becomes their guide as they leave to inspect the city. They meet the king who asks them to step into the anteroom. They bow, and back into the room into an opening in the floor, and come shooting down into a wild-beast arena. The sides are lined with cages full of lions. Their fair guide aids them to escape. While going up the street, a big auto swings around the corner with an American girl in it, evidently a captive. Their guide suddenly stops, and shows them a train approaching. One of the boys grabs the girl and they then watch the express tear down the main street. A note flutters to their feet from a high window. It is from the American girl asking for help. They determine to rescue her, and a fight ensues. They are just escaping with her when their dream comes to an abrupt end. They accuse the new drink and return furiously to the saloon resolved to run the salesman out of town.
- Dick Glenning forms an alliance in banditry with Pete Wills because the former is broke. Dick is a victim of circumstances. Pete is a real bad man. They decide to hold up a stage on which Kitty Manville, daughter of the Wells Fargo agent is the only passenger. The only article of value they get is Kitty's ring, which Dick returns after becoming enamored of her. Dick decides to break with Pete when he learns the latter is wanted for murder. Kitty's father becomes so involved financially through his gambling instincts that he commits suicide. Dick, a witness to the act, for Kitty's sake, decides to make it appear as robbery and murder. Suspicion is turned toward him by his former pal. Dick rides off, realizing that Kitty loves another.
- Bored with the ranch, Buck's girl goes off to the city and gets involved in a brothel. When Buck brings a herd of cattle to town, a streetwalker lures him to the house just in time for him to save his girl from Martin.
- A respected citizen is accused of a robbery, jailed, but escapes through the help of his sweetheart. A posse finally kills a man thought to be the hero, but it was his twin brother whom he brought to the neighborhood to try and reform him.
- John Gregg and his daughter Mary, on their way to Burro Springs, a boom mining town, lose their way and stumble into "Jawbone," a dilapidated town. Here they meet Mike Hernandez, a good-looking bad man. Mary, thinking Mike a gentleman, takes a liking to him. "Cheyenne" Harry, a homely looking good man, comes to Jawbone and Mary believes him to be a weak character. He becomes fascinated with her. Gregg hires Mike Hernandez to guide him to Burro Springs, displaying his small store of gold when paying Hernandez. Later, Gregg and his party become lost in the desert, and run out of water. Mike finds a spring of poisoned water. He removes the sign guarding persons away, allowing Gregg to drink. He dies, and Mike robs him of his gold. Harry, knowing Mike's evil nature, goes in search of Mary and her father and finds them near the spring. Mary believes that Harry has robbed her father, but realizing that rescue from the desert depends upon him, she remains silent. Harry guides Mike and Mary to Burro Springs, where he leaves them. Penniless, Mary is induced by Mike to enter Murphy's place as a dance-girl. On her first night in the place, she is insulted by a drunken cowboy. Harry, returning to Burro Springs, arrives at the dance hall in time to stop the insult. Mike, knowing that he can do little with Mary as long as Harry is around, starts a fight. Harry whips a number of the men, and holds the crowd at bay with his guns. Mike, half drunk, goes upstairs, where he attacks Mary. Harry, holding the crowd at bay, backs up the stairs and unintentionally backs into Mary's room where she is struggling with Mike. He kills Mike. The crowd threaten Harry, but he manages to quiet all by taking the gold from Mike's pocket and explaining the situation. Mary realizes that appearances are deceptive.
- Casey, a traffic cop, favors girls. Traffic halts for them until they are ready to cross, but the old spinsters have to wait. He is in love with the same girl as the Sergeant. The Sergeant catches Casey spooning while on the job, and sends him to report to the Captain. Casey is then sent to the suburbs, where he captures two crooks, who are under the protection of the Sergeant. On marching them to the station, Casey finds the Sergeant is present, and the Captain reinstates Casey to his former post. The Sergeant allows the crooks to escape on their promise to get Casey. The next day the crooks knock Casey unconscious, place him in a sack, and start him on a journey in a freight car. The car arrives at a western town, where a gang, having chased the sheriff away, are plotting to hold up the bank. The sack which contains Casey is loaded on a wagon, and drops off on the main street of the town. Casey crawls out, but his mind has been affected by the blow, and he starts to direct the traffic. He bawls out the cowboys for not obeying his orders. They think he is crazy, but that night Casey catches the gang robbing the bank, and becomes the idol of the town. Meanwhile, the Sergeant has told the girl that Casey is dead, and persuades her to marry him. The two crooks make a big haul, and after dividing this with the Sergeant they decide to "blow" the town for a time. They arrive, by chance, at the same western town, and are recognized by Casey. The recognition restores his memory. He throws up his job as sheriff and starts back to the city with them. On their arrival the crooks squeal on the Sergeant, and Casey is offered the position of Sergeant if he captures him. Casey hears that the Sergeant is that minute being married to his girl. He rushes to her house, and breaks in in time to act as substitute bridegroom. Moving Picture World, August 4, 1917
- Rushville is excited over the football game to be played that day between its rival teams, the Bearcats and the Carnations. Word reaches the latter team that Spike Hennessey, a famous quarterback, is to be a ringer on the "Bearcats" team.
- Eddie and his wife have four kittens and the domineering janitor wants to kill them. An uncle and aunt, who are visiting the newlyweds, think the janitor is trying to make away with them.
- Nifty Ned is a heavyweight champion that meets all comers. He is successful through the fact that he manages to back his opponents against the scenery at the back of the stage ring. From a vantage point behind the scenes, Happy Harry whacks the opponent on the head with a club, invariably causing the "knockout." The end comes when the "heavyweight" is pushed against the scenery by one of his opponents, and Happy Harry knocks out the wrong man.
- Eddie and his bride manage to escape the hazing of the wedding guests, but is later caught by Lee, the hick detective, who has received a fake wire offering $1,000 reward for Eddie's capture as a dangerous criminal. He locates Eddie on the trail and handcuffs himself to him. Lee releases Eddie so the latter can wire his friends, and the bridegroom misses his train. He hurries by taxi to the jail, where Lee has taken the bride in lieu of Eddie. Eddie and his bride are locked up together, but are later released upon receipt of an explanatory telegram from their practical joking friends.
- The hero is suspected but clears his name after the half-breed ranch foreman commits a crime.
- The hero invades a bandits' lair in the mountains and rescues the girl under exciting circumstances.
- The hero, a stranger in a Western town, falls in love with an Innocent girl he discovers in a wine room. He wins her after several clashes with the villain, who also loves her.
- A wealthy society playboy falls in love with the daughter of a poor fisherman.
- Jim Watson, fearless young rancher, wins the office of sheriff and attempts to end the activities of the cattle rustlers, who are headed by his late rival for the office. Action is demanded of him after he has failed for a certain period. With the assistance of Dolly Martin he gets a line on the real culprits after Bud Harris, their leader, has turned suspicion against her father. The entire band of rustlers is captured red-handed by the young couple.
- Eddie appears as a squatter named "Black Jack," who makes a strong fight for his rights against armed aggression. In the course of the story he kidnaps his own boy.
- This opens with election day scenes at Sunset City and goes on to picture the exciting manner in which Eddie helps to clean up a nest of bandits.
- Eddie's cowboy friends frame up to make him propose to his sweetheart.
- A grizzled hero is revisiting the town of his youthful exploits.
- A child picked up on the desert by the cowboy hero is brought to town on the eve of prohibition enforcement. The child is put to bed and is laboring with the Lord's prayer when he sticks at "kingdom come." The cowboy goes into the saloon and asks if anyone there knows what comes after "kingdom come." He is greeted with much laughter and no information. A dancer who turns out to be the mother of the child, which has been living with its grandfather, repeats the words of the prayer, and the child goes to sleep in peace. A romance between the cowboy and the dancer develops.
- Mary Adams feels happy thinking that her disreputable husband is dead. She lives on the border of Eagle, a cattle town. Sheriff Lindley has suffered the loss of a number of his best deputies from rustlers' bullets. He asks Jim Wilson, a daring puncher, to join his force, and gives him a badge, telling him to keep it hidden in his pocket. Jim is in love with Mary, who promises to marry him when word about her husband is confirmed. Meanwhile, word comes to the town that the rustlers are in the neighborhood. The sheriff's posse attack, and the sheriff is killed. The rustlers are cornered in a cave and forced to surrender. Their leader escapes. He sees a man lying on the ground. The helpless fellow proves to be Jim, who has been thrown by his horse. The bandit searches the dazed man and discovers his badge, taking it. He drives to the Adams' cabin. Mary is stunned on beholding him - her husband. Jim drives up. The men battle until the sheriff's boys ride up. The bandit accuses Jim of being a rustler, stating that as for himself, he is a deputy, and shows the badge. Mary stops the posse just as they are about to string Jim up, and tells them the truth. Adams dashes away to freedom, but his horse throws him over an embankment, breaking his neck. Jim and Mary face each other happily.
- Tempest is the chief peace officer of a wild western town.
- An escaped rustler is captured single handed by Tempest following a fight in which the rustler falls over an embankment after she has lassoed him and hangs dangling in the air until the posse arrives and she climbs up the rope to safety.
- While Jack Rutledge is away hunting cattle rustlers, Pete Munsey breaks into his ranch and "sells" it to Tempest Cody, a newcomer, for twenty thousand dollars, two thousand of which he receives in cash. Jack, formerly a revenue officer who once saved Tempest's life, returns and discovers what has happened, but keeps silent, hoping to trap the man who forged his name to the deed, meanwhile taking the job of foreman on the ranch. Pete returns, rustles some of Jack's cattle, collects the rest of the payment and abducts Tempest. Jack pursues, but is captured by Pete's accomplices. He later manages to effect his and Tempest's escape, overpowers Pete, recovers the twenty thousand dollars and wins Tempest's lasting affection.
- A ranch foreman wins a series of events at a frontier day rodeo.
- Nagged by the citizens for failing to catch a masked bandit, the sheriff resigns in disgust, and Tempest is given the job. Jack Rutledge, her sweetheart, proposes - for the hundredth time - to the new sheriff, but is again refused. To be near her, even in jail, he shoots up the town, but without success, for Tempest finds he has used blank cartridges. Jack plans with the driver to frame-up a fake stagecoach hold-up, but is beaten to it by the real bandit. Captured by the posse, Jack is jailed and is about to be lynched by the irate mob when Tempest aids him to escape. Tempest mistakes the real road agent for Jack; but, seeing her error, captures him. Jack meanwhile has been caught by the mob and is about to be strung up, when Tempest arrives with the real culprit, turns him over to the posse and promises to wed Jack - to keep him out of further trouble.
- An Austrian officer sets out to seduce a neglected young wife.
- Tempest goes out on a search for a young man who wronged a girl friend. She captures the wrong fellow, but the real one shows up and marries the girl.
- Counterfeiters manage to throw suspicion temporarily on the hero, but he is cleared in the end.
- A secret service man appears as a ne'er-do-well, who later demonstrates his ability and courage rounding up a gang of smugglers.
- Jack, a stranger, arrives just in time to rescue the girl from "Snake" Royce. He takes Royce's gun away, emptying it, and returns it. Royce suddenly whirls about and strikes him with the gun's butt. Jack licks him. The girl's father appears. He is afraid of Royce. The latter rides away and gets his confederates. Jack talks things over with the girl's father, then departs in search of Royce. The latter returns to the cabin and carries off the girl to his cabin. Royce's confederates go to town and shoot the father. Jack sees Royce carrying off the girl to his cabin. Royce's confederates also arrive. Jack knocks out their sentry and gets the drop on the gang, just before the sheriff arrives. He proposes and is accepted.
- John and Mary had only been married a short time and Mary was naturally a little timid about staying in the cabin which he had furnished for her while he was away. Jack was the new forest ranger and was compelled to make long trips and be away from home oftentimes two or three days. He had picked out his cabin with a view to making it overlook all of the country through which he had to travel. "If you're ever in danger, Mary," said Jack, "make a smudge and send me a smoke signal. I will show you how to do it." In the front yard they put some sticks and dried grass and Jack showed Mary how to cover up the smoke rising from the smudge in such a way as to give the well-known danger signal of the forest. And well it was that he did so. For Hackensack and his gang viewed with alarm the unapproachable honesty of the new ranger and inasmuch as they were engaged in such nefarious undertakings as cattle stealing, smuggling and brand changing, they could not afford to have an honest ranger on their trail. So they laid a trap for him. But Jack, suddenly becoming aware that he was being followed, rigged up a stick with his hat and coat on it. When the ambushers closed in, he held them up and brought them in triumph to the sheriff. "Here's two of Hackensack's gang. I'll bring in the others, I hope, next week." Two of Hackensack's gang and Hackensack were standing near and overheard the remark. In their hideout in the mountains they planned to entrap Jack. The plan was well laid and involved entering his home and capturing him when he returned. Mary saw them coming and at the first opportunity lit the smoke signal in the front yard, but before she could give the signal Hackensack got wise to her I and kicked out the fire. The gang got quite enthusiastic about Mary and thought that it would be a fine thing if she prepared them a home-made dinner. Mary, in fear and trembling, did the best she could and all hands except Mary seemed to enjoy it. Then an idea occurred to her. As she turned the damper in the chimney and hoped that the interruption of the smoke column would give the same effect as the blanket over the fire in the front yard. It worked famously and Jack, miles away, through his glass, saw the signal and hurried home just in time to prevent catastrophe and captured the villains when they were getting altogether too much interested in Mary.
- Billy Hall is missing without leave, and the chief of the forest rangers wants to charge him with desertion. Bud Kirkland, another ranger, feels that something is wrong, and discovers a letter, torn in bits, asking Billy to return to "Betty," at the V-Bar ranch. Bud asks the chief to allow a few more days, and goes off in pursuit. Arriving at the ranch, he sees Billy ride away, and talks to the girl, who proves to be his sister. Billy goes to town, where he gambles, loses, he accuses the winner of having rustled his cattle. During the game Bud enters, but could do nothing with him. Billy then rode away and in rounding up some of his cattle, the rustlers shot him from ambush. Bud arrived, and after a gun battle in which he was shot, he got the two rustlers, just as the sheriff and Betty appeared. It all looked as though Billy had done the battling, and Bud drove off, happy that he had left a comrade to be acclaimed a hero.
- A short film about the legendary baseball Hall-of-Famer Babe Ruth.
- Betty's guardian has robbed her of an inheritance and Snappy tries to get the goods on him. The guardian blackens Snappy's reputation with the girl, and Snappy attempts to get the proof of the villain's guilt.
- Seeking to follow the minister's advice the hero, when struck, turns his other cheek; the villain takes advantage of this and the hero is acclaimed as a coward. Finally, when the villain taunts the hero by taking the girl to a dance hall and taunting the hero to rescue her, he licks the villain and cleans out the place, regaining the respect of the men and clinching the girl's admiration for him.
- A bandit is the leader of a gang. He rescues the heroine from death twice, and then saves her from his own band. He falls in love with her, and then reforms.
- Jack appears in the role of a fighting parson. He invades a saloon, licks the owner who threatens him and this results in the gang attending church. He then aids the girl's father to sell stock in a mine. The bartender blows up the mine and arouses the townspeople by telling them the preacher did it. It develops, however, that the blast uncovered a rich vein of gold. Everybody is made rich and the preacher wins the girl, while the villain is driven out of town.
- The villain is a rum-runner posing as a fur trader. He lures the factor's daughter by means of a forged note, the girl believing that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer is to meet her so that they might elope. The red-coated hero learns of the plan and starts in pursuit. As the girl and the rum-runner are being carried toward the falls, the paddle breaks and they are helpless in their canoe. However, the hero rescues them by means of a lasso, and the villain is arrested.