Prairie Outlaws

When the request of Bill Butler..., in charge of stringing telegraph wires across the plains for cavalry to protect his men from outlaws is refused, the job of protecting the line goes to three wandering cowhands, Eddie (Eddie Dean), Stormy (Al La Rue) and Soapy (Roscoe Ates). Drake Dawson... regarded as the leading citizen of a nearby town but really a crook does everything in his power to prevent the stringing of wires. He foments an Indian uprising. He has his men beat up Soapy and Butler. Suspicious, Eddie sends Soapy and a friend, Skinny (Buzzy Henry), to obtain the criminal records of Dawson and his cronies. They are ambushed and Skinny is wounded. One of the waylayers drops a gun which Skinny recognizes as one taken from his father who had been murdered years before. Soapy locates Eddie and the two return to the town to find that Dawson has taken over and, together with his hoodlums, is running the place. Eddie sends for the Arizona Rangers and a wild gunfight ensures. Dawson and his gang are beaten and he is revealed as the wielder of the gun taken from Skinny's father. He is sent to prison and his gang broken up. The installation of the telegraph goes on." (publicity release)