The cub reporter, Gallegher, becomes involved in a land fraud, when some valueless land is sold to a group of Cornish immigrants.
The Killigrews, a family of Cornish immigrants, arrive in Brimstone. Upon arrival from England, the land agent informs them that the land they purchased from a man calling himself Edward Sims is worthless. Gallagher, a teen-aged reporter for the local newspaper "The Brimstone Blast," tries to help the family determine the true identity of the swindler.—Anonymous