"The
Dangling
Noose"
Resultant of a Battle Over
Water Rights
Written by W. E. WING
Produced by
EDWARD J. LE SAINT
CAST
BILL Harold Lockwoofl
JIM Guy Oliver
ROSE WATKINS Stella Razetto
WATKINS Al W. Filson
SCOTTY Joe Xing'
SHORTY Scott Sunlap
TrHE MOUNTAIN folks of the Rockies are as tense, as strenuous and severe as
their forefathers of the peaks. Their creed is simple but their sense of wrong
deep, and their reverence of law a bit loose. Indian Jim is indicted by short
shrift for a crime punishable by death, according to the code of the primeval. Wat-
kins finds the bed of creek dry one morning, the water strangely having changed
its course in a night. His options in that territory cover considerable land along the
water right, but he has not the necessary money to cover the deal before his option
expires. Bill is in love with Rose Watkins, and the deadly enemy of her friend and protector, Indian Jim, who looms up as having designs on the water rights. While
Watkins went on a hopeless quest to borrow money, Bill was about to close the option, when he found that his own money was missing. Circumstantial evidence pointed
to Indian Jim as the thief, and the excitable mountaineers immediately conveyed him to
a convenient tree. When confronted by the death penalty in the dangling noose, the
stolid Aborigine confessed that he had taken the money, but refused any further explanation. Bill, unsatisfied despite his enmity, sought to prevent the Indian's execution, but was thrust aside. Rose, in a frenzy of alarm, at the predicament of her friend,
broke into the dynamite house, and securing sticks of the explosive, tosses one over
the cliff, to arouse the inhabitants in the settlement below. Another
she uses to hold back the crowd until Watkins arrives and stays proceedings. The Indian then confesses that he had taken the money
to save the option for Rose. Bill, in amazement declares that he
raised the money for the same purpose for Rose's sake; then a very
tense, dramatic situation changes into hilarious comedy as the crowd
pf would-be lynchers join in Watkins' hearty laugh. Indignant that
her love affairs should provoke such merriment she will not be pacified
until Bill's arm steals about her and she defies the laughing crowd
and leaves Indian Jim the hero of the occasion, instead of becoming
the unfortunate victim of the sinister noose daugling above his head.
SELIG
