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- Early footage of Native Indian children at school.
- A parade of the boys of the school, all in neat military uniform and maintaining a creditable military organization.
- The first of an interesting series of pictures covering the work which is being done by the U. S. Indian Dept., in the education of the nation's wards. An alarm of fire is given at the Alberquerque school, the young Indians rush out in good order, raise ladders, man the hose, and soon have a stream playing on the roof.
- A procession of the Indian girls of the school, including representatives of practically every well-known tribe in the country, from Florida to Alaska. The girls range in age from five or six years to fifteen or sixteen, and are a splendid evidence of the good work which the government is doing at this school.
- Showing the larger boys of the school engaged in building an annex to the school building.
- The two Jims loved the same girl. One was exceedingly fat, and the other equally exceedingly slim. Slim Jim was the father's choice and Fat Jim the mother's choice. Both Jims and the girl's parents had their plans in connection with their respective favorites, but the girl had a lover. The father did not like the lover and forbade him the right of the house, so he sneaked in surreptitiously. One day in the midst of his arduous, surreptitious courting, the approach of Slim Jim, made it necessary for the girl to hide her idol in a barrel where he was compelled to sweat and fume. She finally appeased Jim's wooing by promising to elope. The lover then emerged from his place of concealment and was again comfortably established with his sweetheart, when Fat Jim approached. The necessity for hiding her lover was once more apparent to the girl, and she hid him under a clothes basket and proceeded to entertain the fat man. She succeeded in getting rid of him in a similar manner. Fat Jim, while waiting for the young lady evolved a plan of elopement. Slim Jim's mind worked along the same lines, and he resolved likewise. After waiting for about an hour after the original time set for the girl to meet them, they each one separately started towards the ranch house with a view to ascertaining the reason for the delay. In their search they unexpectedly met each other, and finding one another on the same mission, in indignation decided to investigate the situation. They discovered that in the interim an elopement had taken place, and that the girl had departed wither her personally favored suitor. They aroused the parents, who came forth in their negligee, and in great ire, called down the wrath of the gods on the individual who had stolen their daughter from them and without their consent. The two Jims immediately set out in pursuit of the lovers on the only two horses in the stable, and the deserted parents, upon donning a few garments, were forced to follow on a stubborn burro. With a good start on the irate lovers and parents, the elopers were soon at the office of the Justice of the Peace and there they met opposition. The Justice hadn't eaten his breakfast, and refused to marry them on an empty stomach. A 44-calibre gun in the hand of the would-be bridegroom caused him to suddenly change his mind. When the two unlucky Jims arrived, the door of the Justice of the Peace was barred against them. They demanded admission and were refused. The fond mother rode in about the same time on her husband's back, the burro having balked quite some distance out of town. Both Jims and the parents held a consultation, and a battering-ram was applied to the Justice's door. Cupid beat them to it, however, as the happy couple came forth victoriously. A few years elapsed and the two Jims, still nursing their wounded hearts, went to visit the home of their successful rival. They found him sweatily engaged at the wash-tub, while his indolent wife sat by bossing the job. The ardent lover had degenerated into a henpecked husband. After witnessing several violent demonstrations of domestic tranquility punctured by a lot of bawling kids, the two Jims stole away and congratulated each other on their lucky misfortune.
- A young soldier shields his brother's honor by assuming the guilt of a forgery. He is deprived of his rank and drummed out of the service of the army. Shunned by his family and his friends, he leaves his mother and his sweetheart and goes West. On a ranch in New Mexico, he succeeds in losing his identity. One day he discovers an Indian maiden lying prone, near a clump of prairie brush, while the pony which threw her is grazing nearby. The ex-soldier lifts the girl to the horse and takes her back to her people. The girl is the daughter of the Chief of the tribe and he desirous of having her marry a dried up old medicine man, and in order to force an issue to his wish, he places her under guard. The ex-soldier overpowers the guard and rescues the girl. They are married and after a year a baby is born. Six years pass, six years of joy for the squaw and the man, and then comes a message from the East. The perfidity (sic) of the brother has been discovered and the mother and sweetheart are coming West to recover their lost boy and to make amends. The squaw and the child awaken him to his duty in the West and it is with foreboding that he receives his mother and the Eastern girl. The mother offers to take the child back East to educate him and the ex-soldier consents without consulting his squaw wife. The shock of losing her baby is too great for the Indian girl and feeling that she is a barrier between the white man and his happiness, she kills herself. The man finds her lying as he first saw her, and gathering her in his arms, he croons over her with his heart broken.
- We gaze with delight upon the "Capitol" dedicated 1900, replacing that destroyed by incendiaries in 1892; the governor's mansion, close by it; the "Palace of the Governors," built in 1605, which is the oldest executive building in North America. It has stood for 307 years and has witnessed the inaugural ceremonies of 101 governors. We also see San Miguel church. It was built in 1607 and renovated in recent years. The oldest house in America, built by Pueblo Indians long before Spanish occupation. The San Francisco Street and a trio of burros, the beasts of burden, close this picture.
- The town of Glendale was stirred one day by the advent of Alice Reynolds. The next day she is searching about the station and, when questioned by the station-agent, tells him of the loss of a ten dollar bill, the corner of which was slightly torn. The station-agent acquaints the village boys of her loss and they all aid in the hunt, but to no avail. She leaves weeping and the boys' hearts are touched. Bud Hoover, one of the boys, hits upon a scheme to try to get into the good graces of the young lady. He takes a ten dollar bill, tears the corner of it, calls upon Alice and gives her the money, claiming to have found it. She thanks him and gives him a flower as a reward. Bud's success sets the boys a-thinking. He is no sooner gone than Silas Gray hits upon the same plan and gives Alice a ten dollar bill with a torn corner, telling her he had found the money. Still another boy, Cy Smith, thinks the same brilliant plan and he, too, gets a flower. Bud proudly tells the station-agent of his luck. Silas comes next and Cy brings in the rear. They all have the same tale to tell. When notes are compared, they realize that they have been stung, and starts for the hotel as Alice leaves with suitcase, steps into station bus, and tells driver she must catch the 2 p.m. train. The bus passes the boys on its way to the train, but they are not aware it contains the girl. At the hotel, the clerk informs them she has gone. They dash out and make a bee-line for the depot. The girl sees them coming and with a laugh, steps on the now moving train.
- In this film is shown operations at the largest lumber mill in the world, with a capacity of 300,000 feet of lumber per day; a panoramic view of the pond where the logs, which average 30 inches in diameter, are unloaded from the cars and stored until needed, from whence they are poled to the flume and, floated to the log-jack which automatically picks them up, carrying them to the cutting frame where they are sawed into planks of various dimensions, thence to the sorting table which sorts the different sizes preparatory to being conveyed to the immense yards for piling, where 23,000,000 feet of white pine lumber, valued at $500,000, is stored in piles. The creosoting of railroad ties is also shown, a process which increases the life and usefulness of the ties to fifty years, whereas, without this treatment, which is accomplished under a pressure of 175 pounds per square inch for six hours in massive steel tubes, the average life would be but five years. The capacity of this plant is 1,000,000 ties per year.
- A complete panoramic view of Isleta, the Indian City, built about A.D. 1500, transports the onlooker to a forgotten age, for the picture fails to show anything approaching modern times. The only structure linking the past to the present is the church of San Felipe, which is more than four hundred years old, and is the house of worship for the entire population of this strange and quaint town numbering some ten hundred or more Pueblo Indians. A saintly French priest ministers to the spiritual wants of these interesting people, who are very devout Catholics. Twenty percent of the population speaks English and the remainder Spanish.
- A sensational educational subject, showing the world's greatest engineering project.
- A very interesting and instructive picture of the efforts of the United States Government to civilize the Indian tribes. We see the true condition of the Pueblo Indians at Albuquerque, N.M. Although they retain much of their traditional love of barbaric finery, still much of the fashion favors Mexico and the United States. Many of the scenes are photographed in and around the fashionable hotels: also the missions and the government schools, which give an idea of the care Uncle Sam takes of his wards. The Star Spangled Banner is much in evidence, and the aborigines are proud to carry it as their right and ensign of nationality.
- A party of tourists on their way east across the continent take advantage of the short stop at Albuquerque, New Mexico, to purchase wares of the Indians congregated about the Indian Exhibits Building near the station. They become so engrossed in the Indians and their handiwork that they do not notice the time slipping by and their train slipping out. Left, they decide to make the best of it by sight-seeing until the next train arrives. Their experience in the interim was funny, unique and exciting.
- There is no documentation that any film bearing this title was produced or distributed by Biograph at this time. Either the production may have been suspended before completion or else it was released under a different title, most likely the latter, as A Pueblo Legend (1912) q.v.
- This production, which comprises two reels, was made in the old Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico, where the incidents of the story were supposed to have occurred. The costume plates, shields, weapons and accessories were kindly loaned by the Museum of Indian Antiques at Albuquerque, N.M. The opening scene occurs on a feast-day in early times before the coming of the Spanish to that country. During the spring dance of the green boughs, the sun priest tells the story of the turquoise stone that fell from the sky centuries before and was embedded in the earth, the recovery of which would mean light, and prosperity to the people of Isleta. The great brother, the exemplar of the tribe, is chosen as the one most worthy to be sent on the holy mission. The dangers and hardships which he endures during his long quest go to make a most beautiful portrayal of early Indian symbolism.
- An educational subject dealing in an interesting manner with the great agriculture industry of the Southwest.
- A young sheep herder, whom his associates had dubbed "The Cringer," because of his physical fear, was one day attending to a sick kid out of his flock, when some cowboys, who are a sheep herder's natural enemy, come upon him. They make sport of him and rough him up a bit, leaving him cringing on the ground. They then ride into town and have a blow-out. Muck Peters, the owner of the sheep, a renowned character for stinginess and brutality, happens to see the cringer nursing the goat and in his anger strikes the cringer to the ground. The cringer drags himself away from him back to his sheep, where he tells Joe, a stoic herder, of his mishaps and is again knocked to the ground by his fellow herder. His thoughts are not so much of himself as for the poor little kid. When he thinks of the suffering of the little goat his whole nature transforms itself. He determines to show them that he fears nothing. He steals one of his employer's horses, rides into a mountain city, sets fire to a barn, so that the citizens may be drawn thereto by the conflagration, enters a hank and holds it up, the cashier being alone as the remainder of the clerks have gone to the fire. He falls an easy prey to the cringer, but presses a button to the Protective Service Office, thereby giving the alarm that the bank is in danger. The cringer gets away with a sack of money, but through a daughter of the captain of the Protective Service, who runs to the fire and warns the cowpunchers that the bank has been robbed, the cringer is soon compelled to take to cover in an old abandoned log hut, where he makes his last stand, and he compels the posse to shoot him, dying with the words on his lips, "I wasn't afraid."
- Dick McKnight, a deputy sheriff of Santa Cruz County, Ariz., receives a telephone message from Sheriff Wheeler, of the adjoining county, to the effect that Pedro Aquilla and his band of cattle rustlers and outlaws are in San Luis Canyon. His brother, Bill McKnight, the sheriff, being away, the young deputy determines to go out alone and corral some of the gang. He leaves a note to that effect for his brother and starts upon his mission. After getting into the mountains he runs across a note fastened to a tree, which reads: "Go Back or You Die With the Sun." Dick is not an impressionable young man, but the words make him think and he gives it more weight than is usually given to anonymous communications. He continues on his journey, but cannot get the note out of his mind. As he goes forward the words burn into his brain and every little noise in the mountains startles him until fear grabs him in its deadly grasp and drives him, a frightened thing, into an old abandoned adobe hut, where his nerve is worn to a raw edge by the fear which the words signified to him. He places his pistol to his head, the revolver explodes and we leave him in darkness. His brother Bill, the sheriff of Santa Cruz County, coming home after a hard ride finds the note that the youngster has left for him and knowing the difficult task that Dick has taken upon himself, he determines to follow his brother. He trails him to the cabin and entering same finds all that is left of a once brave, light-hearted boy. He takes the cursed note from his brother's clenched hand and receives the same fatal suggestion of fear that his brother had felt and when his innocent horse inadvertently rubs his head, against the door of the adobe, he is more startled than he has ever been before. He clutches his revolver, running from what seems to him to be a haunted place. He mounts his horse and rides from that which he had loved most, his brother. Continuing madly along divers trails not knowing just what to do, the insidious note causing that destroying thought, fear ever augmenting and increasing until from a brave man. Known throughout the territory for his loyalty and bravery, he becomes a cringing, incapable child trying to hide from that thing which is seizing him in its grasp. He attempts to hide in an old abandoned monastery, going back further into the depths of the broken walls until he eventually sinks into a deep crevice, almost an imbecile, firing his revolver at unseen things. The last cartridge of his revolver loosens the old clay and they tumble down upon him, burying him in the tomb. The sun breaks through as we see his hand twitching as he smothers, paying the penalty of the suggestion offered by the piece of paper clenched in his hand even unto the end in the agony of fear. -- Moving Picture World synopsis
- John Field, head bookkeeper of the First National Bank, and in charge of the safe deposit vaults, was rather a rapid young man. His associates of a like caliber, have given him evil suggestions, and he, acting upon them, steals, not only from the bank funds, but from the deposit boxes, of which be secures duplicate keys. He attempts to cover up his irregularities, but it is found out by an old German customer who has a safe deposit box. He informs the president of the bank, who immediately sets the wheels of the law in motion to find out the defaulter. He secures Mary Ryan, an expert detective, who "ropes" the impressionable young man, and he, fascinated by her, informs her that he is leaving, that evening, and asks her to come with him. She agrees. They part to prepare for the journey. She immediately informs the bank president, who secures two plain clothes men. Field, coming to the station, sees them talking, takes alarm and seeing another engine standing on a siding, determines to make his getaway. In his youth his father was an engineer, and he learned how to run an engine. The female detective and the two plain clothes men, with the assistance of the bank president, give chase after discovering his departure and capture him. The feminine in the girl detective asserts itself after a strenuous jump from the engine and she realizes that she is going to faint, but first locks one handcuff on the captive and one on herself, and immediately afterwards falls unconscious. Field, the culprit, who has been knocked unconscious, regains his senses and realizes the situation. He carries the girl with him to what he deems a place of safety, but is overtaken by the plain clothes men and the banker, where womanlike, she comes to long enough to inform the bank president that she guesses she fainted, but she got him. The bank president, whose admiration had previously been strongly augmented, now shows his love for the girl and clasps her in his arms.
- Ferro Cararo, a Mexican pagan in the hills of Mexico, has abducted two children in their youth and taught the older one to become a highwayman. Carlos, the older boy, a gentleman by birth, rebels against this life and at last determines to desert the old brigand. He divides his spoils with his teacher and departs for the States, taking his younger brother with him. Ten years later we find him well established in the community, having gained recognition by honesty and straightforwardness. He meets a beautiful girl through an accident to her brother. They become sweethearts. Ferro, the Mexican, finding it too hot for him in his native home, also departs for the States. An incident brings the teacher and the slave children together. Ferro recognizes the scar which he himself had made upon the wrist of Carlos. Ferro, fearing he would be recognized, determines to give Carlos up to the authorities, and inveigles the sheriff into running Carlos down and shooting him as a murderer and desperado. His sweetheart feeling something is wrong, arrives in time to take charge of the little brother as she sees her sweetheart dying.
- Mr. John Brandon, a man of wealth, was told by his family physician that his daughter, Alice, was declining in health, and that he must take her to New Mexico, where the climate might bring her back to health and strength. Alice is secretly betrothed to her father's clerk, and when her father finds this out, it is an added reason why he should try to get his daughter away from the city. The journey is made. Dr. Rice, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, advises a three-weeks' stay in Bear Canyon, a distance of twenty miles from the city. The father, therefore, makes the arrangements. Later they find themselves in the rugged, rocky canyon. The daughter of a goat herder, himself an invalid, and only a few years earlier compelled to come to the same place for his health, while out with her herd of goats, sees the city girl in her flowing white robe, is startled, goes home and tells her parents. They explain to her that it must be some tourist that has by chance come to this part of the country. The following day she starts out again on her daily jaunt over the hills with the goats. The girls meet and become friends. The city girl decides it would be a fine prank to change clothes with the goat girl and wander off among the rocks with the goats, leaving the goat girl to act the part of the invalid. They decide to keep their secret for fear it might worry Alice's father. Later, Dr. Seth, the nephew of Dr. Rice, visits his uncle and as Dr. Rice is very busy, the nephew is sent out to Bear Canyon to see how the invalid is getting along. The father wishes to take him up on the hills, but the doctor advises that he can find the patient without disturbing the father. He struggles to the top of the hill, and looking over, sees the goat girl, who he supposes is Alice, the daughter of Mr. Brandon. The goat girl is very much excited, the doctor very much interested in the beautiful girl. The doctor examines her, and, finding that there is nothing wrong with her, comes to the conclusion that there must be a mistake somewhere. He goes away, but finding it impossible to forget the little girl, comes back the following day, and as the girls have met again and changed clothes, the doctor finds, as he supposes, Alice Brandon. This masquerading is going on for some little time, the doctor becoming more and more infatuated with his supposed patient. The city girl understands the situation, and it has afforded her a lot of enjoyment. Alice's sweetheart is tired of being alone. Later he arrives on the scene, and meeting Dr, Seth, who is just about to start out from Albuquerque to Bear Canyon, is invited by Dr. Seth to ride with him. When the doctor finds that he is the sweetheart of Alice Brandon, he freezes up and is none too courteous. This is all explained away when the two young men reach the summit of the hill in Bear Canyon and find that the girls have been masquerading. Alice's health has been greatly improved and the meeting of her sweetheart makes her supremely happy. The doctor's love was true blue, and the little goat girl finds that he loves her for herself, regardless of her station in life.
- An outlaw in holding up a stage meets "the girl;" he leaves his trace of felony, deserts his fellow bandits and becomes a hermit and an honest man. Ten years later he returns to the city and there, through an accident, meets "the girl" of his dreams. An unknown power draws them together in spite of the fact that she is married. A jealous and impotent traitor tries to deliver him to the hands of justice, but his attempts are frustrated by Gentleman Jack and he leaves and returns to the humble life of a wood chopper, only later to see his sweetheart riding along with her husband. He determines to play a joke on them. He holds up the girl and her husband, but she recognizes him and introduces him to her husband. It breaks Jack's heart and he determines to again become a knight of the road, but as he is buckling on his guns, the vision of Mary, his sweetheart, appears to him and he removes his belt, drops his irons on the ground and takes up his axe.
- Pedro Mendez is a big, simple-minded Mexican farmer. He is strong, but slow and so dull mentally as to be a mere clod. With him on his farm are his wife and a crippled mother, all of the same stolid type. When Pedro is in town getting his supplies he learns of an intended revolution and is asked to join the recruits. He cannot understand what it is all about; they try to explain, but his simple mind cannot grasp the meaning. He sees the drilling, but goes on his way back to the farm saying nothing to his wife or mother. Later a troop of revolutionists coming by confiscate his horses. He would remonstrate, but the gold lace of the man in command and his authoritative manner cow the clod and he permits the theft. Later a band of guerrillas raid the farm and carry off his chickens and cattle. A retreating band of rebels use his house as a barricade. He sees his home begin to crumble. Their members become fewer and they try to make him fight, but he will not, so he and his mother are sent to the attic out of the way, and his wife commanded to bind the wounds of the injured. She is killed by a bullet. The house catches fire and the rebels exit to meet the other soldiers. Pedro staggers out with his crippled mother in his arms. Outside he lays her under a tree and goes back for his wife. When he brings his dead wife out he finds that his mother has died. He looks at the two figures, at his burning home and then at the battle that is swinging about him. His dormant passion and strength are at length aroused. He gives vent to the terrible cry, and wrenches a musket from a dead soldier near him. He turns upon the battling soldiers. There is no desire for heroic action, but simply a mad animal desire to kill and appease his passion. He rushes into the melee and lays about him with the clubbed musket. As the battle passes around him they turn and shoot him with a laugh. He staggers against a support and looks about him dully. Everything has gone, wife, mother, home and all. He understands less now what it is all about than before, and slowly sinks to his knees, falls forward and rolls over on his face.
- Senor Don Alma Bendadoso, who has been away from his native home, has sent word to his adherents that he is returning to his castle for the purpose of teaching the true word of God. One of the local newspapers printed a warning to the natives, who are all superstitious to a terrible degree. In his boyhood, the don, while out hunting, met with an enraged mountain lion, which he held with his eye and escaped unharmed, the people then giving him the title of "He of the Evil Eye," and fearing him from that day forward, therefore the unjust title held fast to this quiet man of love. Upon his arrival the people were warned by one Don Immonco Superstisioso and his daughter's sweetheart, Ocloso Ignoranto. The girl, Sobre Superstisioso, wishing to know more about the man with the evil eye, fled the house to the thick of the fray and there met the cursed one, who fascinated her, much to the chagrin and envy of the one who has been selected for her. Later the girl cultivated the acquaintance of Alma, and finds him to be a master, and superior in every way to those with whom she had come in contact, and respect and admiration slowly ripened into love, which was returned by he of the evil eye. Her father demanded that she marry Ocloso Ignoranto, and she finally declared herself by saying that one month hence she will marry him who is most worthy. Senor Don Alma Bendadoso rises clear from the darkness of ignorance to that lightness of reason and understanding, enveloping the girl with the halo from his own soul.
- The story of a man's gratitude to a snake for saving his life: He takes the snake home to live with him and then conceives the idea of having the snake kill the man who stole his sweetheart. He places it in the other man's bed. But when the little daughter of the girl he had once loved creeps into the bed, he has a change of heart.
- Long ago, Hiawanda came across a missionary in the hills of New Mexico. She sees a cross lying upon the Bible, the missionary having fallen asleep while reading. She notices the ribbon attached to the cross and takes it. Later, Gray Eagle, her Indian lover, notices the cross and recognizes the connection between the cross and the maid and suspects Hiawanda, his sweetheart. He swears vengeance. Hiawanda runs to the missionary and warns him. The maid starts for her companions and in returning, hears a rolling stone, which attracts her attention to her Indian lover on the trail of the white man. She turns to warn the white man, but too late. The Indian's arrow stands true and the missionary falls on his face in the water, shot in the back. Hiawanda gives him succor, removes the arrow from his back and nurses him back to life. The missionary, in return, teaches her the alphabet. Later a call from the east comes and the missionary determines to answer it as per his orders at once. Not suspecting that Hiawanda's love has grown to the extent it has, he is hurt and pained, but leaves her. But her heart goes to the east with him. She, in sorrow, with a broken heart, turns back to her people, who spurn her because of the cross she wears, which represents the white man. She is driven from her home, and taking the cross in her hands, she goes into a boat of boughs and drifts toward a great falls, and we leave her as we found her, in darkness.
- Henry Saxe, a half-witted young man of the village, nourishes in his poor clouded mind a secret fascination for pretty Gladys Wyncott, who rides to work in the city every morning on the car with her sweetheart, Steve Lusk, the motorman. From the village to the city is about eight miles, and Steve's car is known as the "workers'" car. Henry, the "Harmless," determines to give Gladys a ride and steel her from her sweetheart, knowing instinctively the only way to secure her company would be to do this, thereby putting her at his mercy. He steals a nickel from his mother and steals the car from Steve, whom he knocks off the platform, also the conductor. Steve recovers in time to catch an auto and give chase, just saving the street car from crashing into a passing freight. Steve saves his sweetheart and the "Harmless" one is placed in an asylum.
- Beth, a mountain maid, tastes of the fruits of the valley, and like Eve of old, promised he of the valley she would return. A month later her longing and desires become so great for another nibble of the forbidden fruit of clandestine meetings, that she, in her mountain home, makes her loving mother believe she is seriously ill and thereby secures permission to return to the valley, leaving the snow and the big, rough ones behind. The horse that was to carry her became sick and the mountain man (the big man), who loved quietly but no less fervently, determined to carry Beth through the drifts of the Rockies to the flowers of the valley, there leaving her with an uncle, who was a hospital surgeon. The mountain man returned to his home, leaving a friend to watch over the girl he loved. The valley man, learning of her arrival, dropped his other escapades, and bent on one purpose of securing Beth for his own, little reckoning with God, who watches over those who are of the storm and heights. The mountain man's instinct leads him straight and true and saves his God-given mate ere she enters the gate from whence there is no returning, and on the mesa the mountain and the valley met, and there a truth was told and an act was done that prohibited the flowers from overcoming the snow ever more.
- The leading character in the story has the power to absorb anything he wishes, through his tremendous will power. He goes blind, and takes away the sight of his nephew in order that he may see. He steals his sister's brain in order that he may write. He steals an inventor's mind that he may become famous. His love for his sweetheart prevents him from stealing her voice, and he commits suicide.
- There is no reliable documentation that any film bearing this title was either produced or distributed at this time. Most likely the film was either announced but never made, begun but never completed, or completed and then released under a different title, now unidentifiable.
- There is no reliable documentation that any film bearing this title was either produced or distributed at this time. Most likely, the film was announced but never made, begun but never completed, or else completed and then released under a different title, unidentifiable at this time.
- There is no reliable documentation that any film bearing this title was either produced or distributed by Lubin at this time. It's not the same film as The Sheep Herder (1914), which is a Victor production. Most likely, either the film was announced but never made, begun but never completed, or else completed but released under another title, unidentifiable at this time.
- There is no reliable documentation that any film bearing this title was either produced or distributed by Lubin at this time. It's not the same as The Mountaineer (1914), which is a Nestor production. Most likely the film was either announced but never made, begun and never completed, or completed and eventually released under another title, unidentifiable at this time.
- Mary, the daughter of Sheriff Butts, is the telegrapher at Loneville Station. Her sweetheart, Tom Gaynor, and she have had a quarrel because he has gone across the desert on a mission, the reason of which he will not explain. What he did go for is an engagement ring. Mary gets a telegram for her father, advising him to apprehend Tom Gaynor, as evidence in a recent train hold-up points to him. Mary, torn between love and duty, hides the telegram in her dress and wanders off in a sort of daze. She runs across the real fugitives dividing the loot and hastens home for her father. She finds he has gone to town, and, finding an old pair of bracelets and a revolver, goes herself to capture the outlaws. She gets the drop on the bandits and handcuffs one to the other. They trick her, and wrenching the gun from her, leave her unconscious and get away with the loot, still handcuffed to each other. Later the sheriff finds his daughter delirious, and takes her home. Then he finds the telegram in her bodice and is on the lookout for Tom. The fugitives get lost in the desert and are unable to free themselves. They fight and one kills the other, then drags him along until he finds a stone and breaks the handcuffs. A sandstorm comes up, and in the midst of it the bandit struggles on, led by a vision of his dead companion linked to his wrist. Exhausted and dying, he at last finds himself back beside the body of the dead man, and finds himself strongly bound to him. He dies trying to place the loot back in the other's hands. Tom, returning, finds them there, and taking the loot, goes to see Mary. There the sheriff apprehends him with the evidence upon him. Tom cannot explain other than that he found it in the desert, which is not believed. Tom's voice brings Mary back to consciousness, and everything is explained, even to the ring. That is slipped upon her finger with a lover's kiss.
- Years before the story opens, a gentleman came out of the east and settled in New Mexico. No one knew who he was or from whence he came, except that he paid as he went, feared no man, and never told a lie. He was dubbed by all "A Gentleman of New Mexico" and was respected and loved by all law abiding citizens. He was a dead shot and a law unto himself. Mr. Stillwell, president of the Queen mines, is visiting one of his camps, accompanied by his daughter. Rose, and her fiancé, Percy. The fiancé is in a nearby saloon purchasing cigarettes. A renegade, Mexican Joe, thinks to play a little trick on tenderfoot Percy, by compelling him to drink of the firewater served in these parts. The young man refuses and serious consequences are in the making when "The Gentleman of New Mexico" happens in and stops the proceeding, thereby saving the young man from meeting with fatal results. Rose, who is out in the hills, hears the shot, warns her father and the superintendent of the mine, and they hasten to the saloon. There Rose meets "The Gentleman" for the first time and they are mutually attracted. The renegade, seeing, recognizes the fact that the two are drawn, one to the other, sees an opportunity of not only securing ransom, but also revenge upon his enemy, the unknown. He gets some of his kind to assist him. They abduct Rose and take her to the mountains. "The Gentleman" hearing of the abduction, takes the trail. He rescues the girl from the renegade, but in turn is nearly shot to death. Finally overcoming the crooks, he returns to camp and turns the other prisoner over to the United States marshal. The superintendent of the mine has. In the interim, received a note from the hands of the president's daughter, Rose, to be delivered in person to "The Gentleman." He delivers it to the unknown, who reads it. A week later we find him back in Boston, the home of the girl. He calls, sends in his card in reply to her note, which simply said, "Please come to Boston and get your hat," referring to a Mexican sombrero which he had presented to her because she admired it. Rose's father secures the card and gives the "not at home" to the butler. "The Gentleman" understanding, breaks through the servants and enters the musicale which is in progress and tells her he will wait outside for five minutes only. Rose realizes her heart has gone out to him and she turns, defies the conventional scorn of her social set and leaves to the man and master the care of her future happiness.
- Although an advertisement for this film appears in Moving Picture World on 17 January 1914, no film bearing this title was ever distributed at this time. The film was condemned by the National Board of Censorship as "inflammable" because of the battle scenes and the subversive tone of Capitol versus Labor. In June 1914 the negative and all release prints were destroyed in a catastrophic explosion and fire in the film vaults at the Lubin plant in Philadelphia.
- In common with some otherwise perfectly good wives, Mrs. Sinn has the habit of demanding hubby's entire salary. Consequently, poor Sinn has nothing to show for his week's toil, except his carfare and ten cents for tobacco. But the worm will turn. Sinn enters the kitchen one night and steals the money which his wife has placed in the cupboard for safekeeping. The culprit then raises the kitchen window, to make it appear as though a burglar had entered the house. The scheme works. Mrs. Sinn tearfully reports the robbery to hubby. Lacking money for food, she sends him away with a very light breakfast. Sinn, however, makes a bee-line for a restaurant and surrounds a hearty meal. Mrs. Sinn, in the meantime, sells some old clothes and also hastens to the restaurant. The sight of her husband inside gives her a clue as to the real thief. Disguised as a highwayman, Mrs. Sinn holds up her husband and takes all his money from him. Sinn reports the robbery to the constable. The latter comes to the scene of the holdup with his trusty bloodhound. The animal strikes the scent and leads the two men to the Sinn household. Terrified, Mrs. Sinn confesses. When the dove of peace returns to the home, it has been agreed that hereafter the pay envelope is to be divided fifty-fifty.
- John Temple, owner of the Eagle Mining Company, decides to close down the mine and posts a notification to that effect. Pedro Alvarez, foreman of the mine, kicks a tramp named Burns out of the saloon. He has noticed the notification posted by Temple and incites the miners to riot. Temple refuses to negotiate with them. Burnes, the tramp, weak from hunger, falls exhausted in front of Temple's home, and is cared for by Mrs. Temple. Alvarez and his gang overpower Temple in his office and leave to blow up the mine. Burnes finds Temple bound and frees him. Temple's little girl has wandered away in search of her dog. Alvarez encounters the child and decides to kidnap her, but the dog saves the child. Temple telephones for the sheriff, who arrives just in time to capture the outlaws. The tramp is given a good position in the mines by Temple.
- Tom promises his sweetheart, Vicky, that he will stop drinking. He falls in with boon companions, however, and in a saloon brawl, he accidentally shoots Ned, his pal. The sheriff and Vicky's brother find that Ned was only stunned by the bullet. At a rodeo, Tom meets the sheriff, who arrests Tom for the shooting of Ned. The sheriff wires Vicky, explaining the ruse he is playing on Tom. When Tom and the sheriff arrive at the town jail, they encounter Vicky, accompanied by Ned. After Tom is joyfully surprised at seeing Ned alive and well, he solemnly promises never to drink again, and with this assurance Vicky rushes into Tom's arms.
- Miss Satterly, the new schoolteacher, is loved by all the cowboys of the "Flying U" ranch. Weary is shy and only makes the acquaintance of the pretty schoolteacher by main force on the part of his cowboy companions. Jack and Emmett write an invitation to Weary to go to a dance, and sign Miss Satterly's name thereto. Miss Satterly finds a rough draft of this note. Weary's run-away horse brings him to Miss Satterly's home. They compare notes and the night of the dance, the cowboys are astounded to see Miss Satterly and Weary together at the dance where Weary is fed ice cream by the schoolteacher, while he tells her how much he loves her.