WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:03.000 Slaughter's my name, Luke Slaughter. 00:03.000 --> 00:05.000 Cattle's my business. 00:05.000 --> 00:07.000 It's a tough business. 00:07.000 --> 00:09.000 It's big business. 00:09.000 --> 00:11.000 I've got a big stake in it. 00:11.000 --> 00:13.000 And there's no man west of the Rio Grande 00:13.000 --> 00:35.000 big enough to take it from me. 00:44.000 --> 00:47.000 Luke Slaughter of Tombstone. 00:47.000 --> 00:51.000 Civil War cavalry man turned Arizona cattle man. 00:51.000 --> 00:54.000 Across the territory from Yuma to Fort Defiance 00:54.000 --> 00:56.000 from Flagstaff to the Bachuca's 00:56.000 --> 00:59.000 and below the border through Chihuahua and Sonora 00:59.000 --> 01:02.000 his name was respected or feared 01:02.000 --> 01:04.000 depending on which side of the law you were on. 01:04.000 --> 01:06.000 Man of vision. 01:06.000 --> 01:08.000 Man of legend. 01:08.000 --> 01:13.000 Luke Slaughter of Tombstone. 01:13.000 --> 01:16.000 I'm Irma Dutro, color stylist for O'Brien Paints. 01:16.000 --> 01:23.000 Our musical theme hardly needs introduction. 01:23.000 --> 01:27.000 Just as the many instruments blend into this symphony 01:27.000 --> 01:30.000 so O'Brien blends many pigments into the newest 01:30.000 --> 01:32.000 fashion right colors for your home 01:32.000 --> 01:35.000 giving more color per color. 01:35.000 --> 01:38.000 We have selected O'Brien's exciting new colors of the year 01:38.000 --> 01:41.000 after consulting many leading decorators 01:41.000 --> 01:44.000 and home furnishings experts of the country. 01:44.000 --> 01:48.000 And because all these colors are decorator approved 01:48.000 --> 01:51.000 you are assured of rich, authentic new colors 01:51.000 --> 01:53.000 for your own home. 01:53.000 --> 01:55.000 Your nearest O'Brien paint dealer 01:55.000 --> 01:57.000 listed in the yellow pages of your phone book 01:57.000 --> 02:00.000 has a free color chip folder for you. 02:00.000 --> 02:02.000 He'll help you select O'Brien paints 02:02.000 --> 02:05.000 in these exclusive new colors of the year 02:05.000 --> 02:08.000 for both inside and outside your home. 02:08.000 --> 02:11.000 Stop in and see him soon. 02:11.000 --> 02:15.000 And now, Luke Slaughter of Tombstone. 02:15.000 --> 02:24.000 Music 02:24.000 --> 02:27.000 Ed Craig came to Tombstone from the east 02:27.000 --> 02:30.000 a little after I settled here. 02:30.000 --> 02:33.000 Ed was well fixed, didn't have to scratch out a living 02:33.000 --> 02:35.000 like most of us. 02:35.000 --> 02:38.000 And in his quiet, likable manner 02:38.000 --> 02:41.000 he soon proved to be the kind of man Arizona needed. 02:41.000 --> 02:45.000 Yes, I think I can do some good for the territory in Washington 02:45.000 --> 02:47.000 if the voters want to send me there. 02:47.000 --> 02:49.000 You certainly can, Ed. 02:49.000 --> 02:51.000 Our delegate ought to be a much stronger man 02:51.000 --> 02:53.000 than some of the ones we've sent. 02:53.000 --> 02:56.000 I got all the respect in the world for Mr. Craig Luke. 02:56.000 --> 02:58.000 But what's the sense of electing a good man 02:58.000 --> 03:00.000 to the United States Congress 03:00.000 --> 03:02.000 when he don't even have a vote after he gets there? 03:02.000 --> 03:05.000 He'll have a vote when Arizona becomes a state. 03:05.000 --> 03:08.000 Meanwhile, we need a delegate who can make the federal government 03:08.000 --> 03:11.000 understand our needs and our future. 03:11.000 --> 03:13.000 Paul Gallagher's again statehood. 03:13.000 --> 03:16.000 He says if we got it, we'd be taxed out of our boots. 03:16.000 --> 03:20.000 The way it is now, he says, we're getting a free ride. 03:20.000 --> 03:24.000 It seems to me Paul Gallagher's again progress. 03:24.000 --> 03:26.000 I'm afraid the main reason he's running against me 03:26.000 --> 03:30.000 is to get that free ride to Washington and back every year. 03:30.000 --> 03:32.000 That's about the size of it. 03:32.000 --> 03:35.000 And he doesn't need the free part any more than you do. 03:35.000 --> 03:38.000 He's made a wad of money out of his saloon and his gambling room. 03:38.000 --> 03:40.000 I wouldn't know about that. 03:40.000 --> 03:42.000 All I know is that he bellowed like a branded Longhorn 03:42.000 --> 03:46.000 about half the gambling license fees going into the school fund. 03:46.000 --> 03:47.000 He he he he. 03:47.000 --> 03:50.000 Bellowed like a branded Longhorn. 03:50.000 --> 03:53.000 Mr. Craig, you're even starting to talk something like a westerner. 03:53.000 --> 03:55.000 He thinks like an American, Wichita. 03:55.000 --> 03:58.000 And that's the kind of man Arizona needs for its delegate. 03:58.000 --> 03:59.000 Remember, I still have to be elected. 03:59.000 --> 04:00.000 You will be. 04:00.000 --> 04:05.000 You know, I have a personal reason for wanting to be in Washington. 04:05.000 --> 04:07.000 My little girl goes to school in Baltimore. 04:07.000 --> 04:10.000 Oh, you got a sprout? I didn't know that. 04:10.000 --> 04:12.000 Show Wichita the picture in your watch, Ed. 04:12.000 --> 04:15.000 Well, here it is. 04:15.000 --> 04:19.000 Why, she ain't no sprout. She's a grown up young lady. 04:19.000 --> 04:23.000 And Purdy is a spotted puppy riding through snowstorm, 04:23.000 --> 04:25.000 a little red wagon. 04:25.000 --> 04:28.000 Thanks, Wichita. 04:28.000 --> 04:30.000 Well, I've got to be getting along, Luke. 04:30.000 --> 04:32.000 Thanks for your confidence. 04:32.000 --> 04:33.000 Well, I wish you wouldn't hurry, Ed. 04:33.000 --> 04:35.000 I have an appointment over at Gallagher Saloon. 04:35.000 --> 04:38.000 I'm buying a gold mine. 04:38.000 --> 04:39.000 What? 04:39.000 --> 04:40.000 That's right. 04:40.000 --> 04:44.000 An old prospector named Van Ling wants to sell his claim. 04:44.000 --> 04:46.000 Says it's more fun discovering gold 04:46.000 --> 04:48.000 than working to get it out of the ground. 04:48.000 --> 04:50.000 Now, now, wait a minute, Ed. 04:50.000 --> 04:53.000 I've never heard of any worthwhile gold ore in these parts. 04:53.000 --> 04:54.000 Oh? 04:54.000 --> 04:55.000 The silver. 04:55.000 --> 05:00.000 Shifelin's strike proved that, but I'd never gamble on gold. 05:00.000 --> 05:02.000 I'd never gamble on no more silver. 05:02.000 --> 05:06.000 I figure old Shifelin found the only load in the Mule Mountains. 05:06.000 --> 05:10.000 Van Ling took me out to his claim, and I watched him take the samples. 05:10.000 --> 05:13.000 They assayed high enough to be worth taking a chance. 05:13.000 --> 05:16.000 It's your money, Ed, but you're no more a mining expert than I am. 05:16.000 --> 05:17.000 I know, I know. 05:17.000 --> 05:20.000 I just figure I can put some men to work, 05:20.000 --> 05:22.000 and if the vein's as rich as it seems to be, 05:22.000 --> 05:24.000 their families will be comfortable for life. 05:24.000 --> 05:28.000 You mean you're gonna hire on a profit-sharing basis? 05:28.000 --> 05:30.000 Uh-huh. I've got as much money as I need, 05:30.000 --> 05:34.000 and I hope what the men get, they'll sort of invest back in Arizona. 05:34.000 --> 05:37.000 What cash money wages you paying? 05:37.000 --> 05:41.000 Ha-ha. Exactly what Luke pays you, Ishtar. 05:41.000 --> 05:43.000 And if you quit him to work for me, 05:43.000 --> 05:46.000 you might not get your ranch job back if the claim peters out. 05:46.000 --> 05:49.000 Oh, ha-ha. I wasn't asking for no different job. 05:49.000 --> 05:53.000 I know when I'm well off, when I'm a-sittin' on a horse. 05:53.000 --> 05:56.000 Just don't get so wrapped up in helping people 05:56.000 --> 05:58.000 that you forget to campaign, Ed, 05:58.000 --> 06:02.000 because you can really help them when you're Arizona's delegate to Congress. 06:02.000 --> 06:08.000 4,800, 4,900, 5,000. 06:08.000 --> 06:10.000 That's the correct amount, Mr. Craig, 06:10.000 --> 06:12.000 and you got yourself a gold mine. 06:12.000 --> 06:14.000 Fine, Mr. Vanling. The paper seemed to be in order, 06:14.000 --> 06:16.000 and I'll take care of filing the transfer. 06:16.000 --> 06:20.000 That's a lot of cash money to be carrying around, Tombstone Van. 06:20.000 --> 06:21.000 Mm-hmm. 06:21.000 --> 06:23.000 Here to leave it in my safe overnight. 06:23.000 --> 06:33.000 Well, now, I-I-I might just do that, Mr. Gallagher. Where at is your safe? 06:33.000 --> 06:35.000 In my office. 06:35.000 --> 06:38.000 Well, Craig, this'll be an interesting experience for you. 06:38.000 --> 06:41.000 I think so. I think it'll be a profitable one. 06:41.000 --> 06:45.000 If it is, maybe you'll quit harping on statehood for the territory. 06:45.000 --> 06:47.000 Government would take it all away in taxes. 06:47.000 --> 06:50.000 Statehood's a few years away, Mr. Gallagher. 06:50.000 --> 06:53.000 No matter which one of us goes to Washington. 06:53.000 --> 06:56.000 Your ideas are too fancy for us out here, Craig. 06:56.000 --> 06:58.000 Then I have a Westerner to represent the West. 06:58.000 --> 07:00.000 We'll see what the people decide. 07:00.000 --> 07:01.000 Yeah, that we will. 07:01.000 --> 07:03.000 And no hard feelings either way. 07:03.000 --> 07:04.000 Mr. Vanling. 07:04.000 --> 07:05.000 Mm? 07:05.000 --> 07:07.000 If you change your mind about joining the mine crew, just look me up. 07:07.000 --> 07:09.000 Oh, it's pretty for certain I won't. 07:09.000 --> 07:11.000 Well, keep in touch anyway. 07:11.000 --> 07:14.000 Remember, you'll get a share of the profits. 07:14.000 --> 07:16.000 Come along to my office, old timer. 07:16.000 --> 07:17.000 All right. 07:17.000 --> 07:18.000 Give me a receipt. 07:18.000 --> 07:21.000 Electioneer if you want to, Craig, even if this is my place. 07:21.000 --> 07:24.000 I'll let the electioneering go until I round up the miners. 07:24.000 --> 07:26.000 Hold it, hold it. 07:27.000 --> 07:30.000 Now go ahead. It's worth laughing at. 07:30.000 --> 07:33.000 Share the profits. 07:33.000 --> 07:37.000 We put it over on him real smart like, eh, Mr. Gallagher? 07:37.000 --> 07:39.000 That wasn't hard. 07:39.000 --> 07:41.000 Give me the money, Van. 07:41.000 --> 07:43.000 I get 300 of it, remember. 07:43.000 --> 07:44.000 That's right. 07:44.000 --> 07:46.000 100 now and 200 one day. 07:46.000 --> 07:49.000 100 now and 200 when I know you're in Yuma. 07:49.000 --> 07:53.000 I'd, uh, I'd kinda like to stay around and watch the fun. 07:53.000 --> 07:55.000 Your mouth's too big, old timer. 07:55.000 --> 07:59.000 I wouldn't want Craig to find out he actually bought that claim from me. 07:59.000 --> 08:01.000 Oh, it'd never be the word. 08:01.000 --> 08:03.000 And you fix the papers yourself. 08:03.000 --> 08:05.000 You're going to Yuma. 08:05.000 --> 08:08.000 By the time you get there, it'll be time to start spreading the word 08:08.000 --> 08:12.000 that Mr. Edward Craig, candidate for delegate from the territory of Arizona, 08:12.000 --> 08:16.000 is pouring a fortune into a solid gold mine. 08:16.000 --> 08:19.000 I bet you'll win that election, Mr. Gallagher. 08:19.000 --> 08:21.000 Eh, safest bet you'll ever make. 08:21.000 --> 08:25.000 When the people find out how little Craig knows about the West, 08:25.000 --> 08:28.000 they'll laugh him right out of Arizona. 08:34.000 --> 08:37.000 The claim didn't look like much to me. 08:37.000 --> 08:40.000 There were traces of gold in the sandstone 08:40.000 --> 08:44.000 where old Van Ling had roughed out the start of a mineshaft, 08:44.000 --> 08:46.000 but they were shallow deposits, 08:46.000 --> 08:51.000 and they disappeared when Craig's men got to tunneling a real shaft. 08:51.000 --> 08:57.000 The crew worked with picks and shovels and drew their pay regularly. 08:57.000 --> 08:59.000 Then at last the tracks and mine carts 08:59.000 --> 09:03.000 and heavy ore-crushing equipment arrived in Benson by rail, 09:03.000 --> 09:08.000 and the whole mine force went down to mule freight it back to Tombstone. 09:08.000 --> 09:11.000 I persuaded Ed to make a trip to the mine with Wichita and me, 09:11.000 --> 09:13.000 while the men weren't around. 09:13.000 --> 09:16.000 We'll make a lot more progress when we get the machinery in, Luke. 09:16.000 --> 09:20.000 Well, you'll dig deeper, faster, that's sure. 09:20.000 --> 09:23.000 Eh, ain't no machinery been invented 09:23.000 --> 09:26.000 that'll put gold in the ground where there ain't none. 09:26.000 --> 09:29.000 I don't want to put it in, I want to get it out. 09:29.000 --> 09:32.000 Do you mind my asking how much this equipment's set in your back, Ed? 09:32.000 --> 09:36.000 About 10,000. Another couple thousand to ship it. 09:36.000 --> 09:40.000 Then with your payroll, you're close to 20,000 in the hole. 09:40.000 --> 09:42.000 I think it's a sound investment. 09:42.000 --> 09:46.000 Now, do you mind me asking you something, Luke? 09:46.000 --> 09:49.000 Nope. You're going to ask me to keep my nose out of your personal business. 09:49.000 --> 09:51.000 Not at all. 09:51.000 --> 09:55.000 I'm just curious about that old muzzle-loading rifle. 09:55.000 --> 09:58.000 Well, I've been studying up on gold, 09:58.000 --> 10:01.000 this antique guns for a little experiment I want to make. 10:01.000 --> 10:03.000 Whoa. Whoa there, fella. Whoa. 10:03.000 --> 10:06.000 Oh, yeah. 10:06.000 --> 10:07.000 Yeah. 10:07.000 --> 10:11.000 And, uh, Mary's Pride Mine. 10:11.000 --> 10:14.000 Well, you got a sign on a tunnel, anyway. 10:14.000 --> 10:16.000 I named it after my daughter. 10:16.000 --> 10:20.000 She'll be proud as punch when I telegraph her we've hit high-grade ore. 10:20.000 --> 10:23.000 Well, I've got some high-grade gold nuggets here, Ed. 10:23.000 --> 10:24.000 Hmm? 10:24.000 --> 10:28.000 I'm going to put a charge of powder in this old blunderbuss 10:28.000 --> 10:30.000 and tamp the wadding 10:30.000 --> 10:33.000 and use a nugget for a bullet 10:33.000 --> 10:36.000 and fire into the rock near the shaft opening. 10:36.000 --> 10:38.000 BANG 10:38.000 --> 10:40.000 Now we'll repeat the experiment. 10:40.000 --> 10:43.000 Well, uh, what kind of nonsense is this, Luke? 10:43.000 --> 10:47.000 You better sort of hope it is nonsense, Mr. Craig. 10:47.000 --> 10:49.000 Here goes another one. 10:49.000 --> 10:51.000 BANG 10:51.000 --> 10:54.000 Now, let's take a look at the sandstone. 10:57.000 --> 10:59.000 Well, how about it, Ed? 10:59.000 --> 11:02.000 Look like the place where Van Link shipped off the samples? 11:02.000 --> 11:04.000 Why, yes. 11:04.000 --> 11:08.000 That's just the way the gold flecks were...were distributed. 11:10.000 --> 11:12.000 Well. 11:12.000 --> 11:17.000 Luke, I bought a salted mine, didn't I? 11:17.000 --> 11:19.000 I'm afraid you did, Ed. 11:19.000 --> 11:22.000 You fire soft gold into soft rock 11:22.000 --> 11:25.000 and it looks for all the world like the real thing. 11:25.000 --> 11:29.000 You is a patchy for one of the scummiest tricks 11:29.000 --> 11:32.000 a Westerner can play on an Easterner, Mr. Craig. 11:32.000 --> 11:34.000 I, uh...I... 11:36.000 --> 11:40.000 When this gets out, I'm going to shape up as a fine candidate 11:40.000 --> 11:42.000 to represent the people of the West. 11:42.000 --> 11:44.000 That may have been what Simon was thinking 11:44.000 --> 11:46.000 when you fell for the trick. 11:46.000 --> 11:51.000 And I doubt if old Van Link is much interested in politics. 11:51.000 --> 11:59.000 MUSIC 11:59.000 --> 12:03.000 In a moment, Luke Slaughter of Tombstone returns. 12:03.000 --> 12:06.000 With the warm weather here, young folks are 12:06.000 --> 12:09.000 champing at the bit to get outdoors and enjoy themselves. 12:09.000 --> 12:11.000 Many of them, far too many in fact, 12:11.000 --> 12:14.000 may be thinking of quitting school after this semester 12:14.000 --> 12:16.000 and going to work. 12:16.000 --> 12:18.000 If they're not graduating this June, 12:18.000 --> 12:20.000 ask them to give the matter a second thought. 12:20.000 --> 12:23.000 The grass may look very green and inviting from the classroom window, 12:23.000 --> 12:26.000 but if they don't complete high school or college, 12:26.000 --> 12:29.000 they may be looking just as longingly out the window 12:29.000 --> 12:31.000 twenty years from now, bored and disgusted 12:31.000 --> 12:34.000 with a dull, or menial, poor-paying job. 12:34.000 --> 12:37.000 The good jobs, the interesting jobs, the secure jobs, 12:37.000 --> 12:41.000 and the high-salary jobs are reserved for those with college degrees. 12:41.000 --> 12:44.000 There are some pretty good jobs for high school graduates, too. 12:44.000 --> 12:47.000 But remember this, the less education you have, 12:47.000 --> 12:50.000 the more money you're likely to earn during your lifetime. 12:50.000 --> 12:53.000 You may hear of a lot of people being out of work today, 12:53.000 --> 12:56.000 but there's still a crying need for engineers, scientists, 12:56.000 --> 12:58.000 doctors, nurses, and teachers. 12:58.000 --> 13:01.000 And jobs like that require a sound, complete education. 13:01.000 --> 13:04.000 Urge the young people you know to qualify for them. 13:04.000 --> 13:08.000 They can, if they stay in school and graduate. 13:08.000 --> 13:16.000 MUSIC 13:16.000 --> 13:19.000 Now, Act Two of William N. Robson's production of 13:19.000 --> 13:22.000 Luke Slaughter of Tombstone. 13:22.000 --> 13:31.000 MUSIC 13:31.000 --> 13:34.000 Ed Craig had bought a salted gold mine. 13:34.000 --> 13:36.000 There wasn't any doubt about it. 13:36.000 --> 13:38.000 And if word got out, 13:38.000 --> 13:41.000 Ridicule was going to ruin his chance of beating Paul Gallagher 13:41.000 --> 13:45.000 in the election for territorial delegate to the United States Congress. 13:45.000 --> 13:49.000 As I see it, gentlemen, there's only one thing I can do. 13:49.000 --> 13:51.000 Close up the mine, huh? 13:51.000 --> 13:54.000 No, Wichita, keep digging. 13:54.000 --> 13:57.000 My men have their families in Tombstone. 13:57.000 --> 14:00.000 Some of them have brought them a long way to settle here. 14:00.000 --> 14:03.000 If people think I'm a fool, they'll just have to think it. 14:03.000 --> 14:07.000 But I'm not going to shut down until I find something else for the men to do. 14:07.000 --> 14:08.000 Can you afford it, Ed? 14:08.000 --> 14:10.000 I can for a while, anyway. 14:10.000 --> 14:12.000 And just because the top stratum was salted 14:12.000 --> 14:15.000 there's no proof there isn't pay dirt further in. 14:15.000 --> 14:20.000 Mr. Craig, I wouldn't trade a spavin' broomtail range Mustang 14:20.000 --> 14:23.000 for this whole dang rock pile. 14:23.000 --> 14:25.000 And neither would anybody else in their right senses. 14:25.000 --> 14:29.000 Wichita, Ed, we both admire you 14:29.000 --> 14:31.000 and we both wish you all the luck in the world. 14:31.000 --> 14:35.000 Oh, of course we do. I never said I didn't wish you luck. 14:35.000 --> 14:38.000 But you're sure going to need it. 14:38.000 --> 14:43.000 I'm sure you'll need it. 14:43.000 --> 14:48.000 Election Day was getting close 14:48.000 --> 14:52.000 and Ed Craig's chances looked worse and worse. 14:52.000 --> 14:57.000 Out here, the weak and the foolish don't survive long. 14:57.000 --> 14:59.000 And in the eyes of the hardworking settlers, 14:59.000 --> 15:01.000 Ed looked more than a little foolish. 15:01.000 --> 15:04.000 Money doesn't come easy to our people. 15:04.000 --> 15:07.000 They don't like to see a man throw it away, 15:07.000 --> 15:09.000 especially when they don't understand his motives. 15:09.000 --> 15:12.000 And Paul Gallagher slandered those motives, 15:12.000 --> 15:15.000 even to the men who were benefiting from them. 15:15.000 --> 15:17.000 Howdy there, Mr. Rawlinson. 15:17.000 --> 15:18.000 Howdy. 15:18.000 --> 15:19.000 How'd it be? 15:19.000 --> 15:20.000 Whisky, I guess. 15:20.000 --> 15:22.000 Oh, put your money away, my friend. 15:22.000 --> 15:23.000 Huh? 15:23.000 --> 15:24.000 This is on the house. 15:24.000 --> 15:26.000 Well, it's very nice of you, Mr. Gallagher. 15:26.000 --> 15:29.000 Still working for Craig at the Mary's Pride? 15:29.000 --> 15:30.000 That's right. 15:30.000 --> 15:32.000 But maybe not for long, huh? 15:32.000 --> 15:33.000 Well, no. 15:33.000 --> 15:35.000 We sure ain't finding pay dirt, 15:35.000 --> 15:37.000 but Craig keeps handing over our wages. 15:37.000 --> 15:39.000 Yes, those wages aren't quite as much 15:39.000 --> 15:41.000 as you hoped to make on the deal. 15:41.000 --> 15:44.000 Well, no, but if we make a strike, 15:44.000 --> 15:46.000 we're all gonna share in the profits. 15:46.000 --> 15:48.000 That Craig is a fast talker. 15:48.000 --> 15:51.000 But I'll bet you wouldn't have moved your family down from Globe 15:51.000 --> 15:54.000 if you'd known it was for just a few weeks' poor pay. 15:54.000 --> 15:56.000 Pardon me for interrupting. 15:56.000 --> 15:59.000 It's been a few months, and it's mighty good pay. 15:59.000 --> 16:02.000 Well, slaughter, our private conversations 16:02.000 --> 16:05.000 between my customers and me, any concern of yours? 16:05.000 --> 16:09.000 When they're derogatory to one of the finest men in the territory, yes. 16:09.000 --> 16:11.000 Mr. Slaughter and Mr. Craig's nice enough, 16:11.000 --> 16:15.000 but we were led to believe we were gonna make a lot of money. 16:15.000 --> 16:18.000 I bet you're making more now than you've ever made in your life. 16:18.000 --> 16:20.000 How long's it gonna last, Slaughter? 16:20.000 --> 16:23.000 When the election's over, Craig'll shut up that mine 16:23.000 --> 16:24.000 like it was a pest house. 16:24.000 --> 16:26.000 What makes you think so? 16:26.000 --> 16:28.000 Because Craig's not a complete fool. 16:28.000 --> 16:30.000 He got stuck with a solid mine. 16:30.000 --> 16:32.000 He figured he'd hide it under a big gesture, 16:32.000 --> 16:34.000 a gesture that might even get him elected. 16:34.000 --> 16:38.000 Then when he got to Washington, he'd make it up and graft. 16:38.000 --> 16:40.000 Got any more to say, Gallagher? 16:40.000 --> 16:42.000 Only that Arizona folks aren't stupid enough 16:42.000 --> 16:44.000 to be taken in by an Eastern swindler. 16:44.000 --> 16:47.000 I dare you to say that again. 16:47.000 --> 16:50.000 Any place except in your own miserable gambling house. 16:50.000 --> 16:52.000 You heard me this time. 16:52.000 --> 16:54.000 No need to chew my cabbage twice. 16:54.000 --> 16:56.000 You better come with me, Rowlinson. 16:56.000 --> 16:59.000 Well, as long as Mr. Gallagher's setting up drinks. 16:59.000 --> 17:01.000 Have it your own way. 17:01.000 --> 17:04.000 But remember who's setting up the food for your kids. 17:11.000 --> 17:15.000 Luke, I don't see what good we're doing, Mr. Craig, 17:15.000 --> 17:18.000 by coming out to the mine when he ain't even here. 17:18.000 --> 17:20.000 We may be doing a lot of good. 17:20.000 --> 17:23.000 Yeah, but the election's day after tomorrow. 17:23.000 --> 17:25.000 And the way people are talking, 17:25.000 --> 17:29.000 he ain't got a Chinaman's chance to win. 17:29.000 --> 17:31.000 Craig knows that too, Wichita. 17:31.000 --> 17:34.000 But he wouldn't be nearly as disappointed over losing 17:34.000 --> 17:37.000 as he would be to find his miners have let him down. 17:37.000 --> 17:41.000 Yeah, it appears they ain't doing much mining today. 17:41.000 --> 17:44.000 Looks more like they're having themselves a social ball. 17:44.000 --> 17:47.000 Well, I'll be... Gallagher's talking to him. 17:47.000 --> 17:49.000 Whoa, whoa. Whoa, whoa. 17:49.000 --> 17:52.000 Rowlinson, son, I'd be doing you men a favor. 17:52.000 --> 17:56.000 If I came out and told you what Craig is trying to pull... 17:56.000 --> 18:00.000 As for myself, I don't believe he got the assayed samples 18:00.000 --> 18:02.000 from this claim at all. 18:02.000 --> 18:05.000 I don't believe he paid old Van Lingen any $5,000. 18:05.000 --> 18:08.000 I think the whole thing was a planned swindle 18:08.000 --> 18:11.000 to get him to Washington and to make you pay taxes 18:11.000 --> 18:13.000 to a state and a federal government. 18:13.000 --> 18:17.000 I told you not to call Craig a swindler again, Gallagher. 18:17.000 --> 18:19.000 No, wait, wait. Wait for what? 18:19.000 --> 18:21.000 I'll take that gun, Gallagher. 18:21.000 --> 18:23.000 And now I'll take you. 18:28.000 --> 18:33.000 Now, boys, as you know, Mr. Craig is campaigning in Prescott. 18:33.000 --> 18:35.000 He'll be back for the election, 18:35.000 --> 18:38.000 and it doesn't look like he can win. 18:38.000 --> 18:40.000 Craig isn't a mining expert. 18:40.000 --> 18:42.000 He fell for a salted claim. 18:42.000 --> 18:44.000 I told him so weeks ago, 18:44.000 --> 18:47.000 and I guess all Arizona knows it now. 18:47.000 --> 18:49.000 But he kept all of you working 18:49.000 --> 18:52.000 because he felt a responsibility to you and your families, 18:52.000 --> 18:54.000 and for some strange reason, 18:54.000 --> 18:56.000 because he still has faith in this mine. 18:56.000 --> 18:59.000 Maybe that faith boils down to faith in the West 18:59.000 --> 19:01.000 and the men who want to live here. 19:01.000 --> 19:04.000 Now, what do you say we forget about the election 19:04.000 --> 19:06.000 and when Ed Craig comes home, 19:06.000 --> 19:09.000 we'll show him the longest mine tunnel he ever saw, 19:09.000 --> 19:11.000 whether there's gold in it or not. 19:11.000 --> 19:14.000 I'm gonna dig, Wichita's gonna dig. 19:14.000 --> 19:16.000 How about the rest of you? 19:16.000 --> 19:19.000 Yeah! 19:28.000 --> 19:30.000 Keep those oil flowers coming back, men. 19:30.000 --> 19:32.000 We'll keep them filled up. 19:34.000 --> 19:39.000 That was a pretty enticing speech you made, Luke. 19:39.000 --> 19:44.000 When I started swinging this pick, I almost enjoyed it. 19:44.000 --> 19:47.000 But now the rock's getting awful hard. 19:47.000 --> 19:49.000 Keep swinging anyway. 19:53.000 --> 19:55.000 Now, now it's soft. 19:55.000 --> 19:56.000 Where? 19:56.000 --> 19:58.000 Right here. Look. 20:00.000 --> 20:04.000 You see? Soft and kind of lightish colored. 20:04.000 --> 20:06.000 Wichita, this... 20:06.000 --> 20:08.000 Get that light in closer. 20:10.000 --> 20:11.000 This is silver. 20:11.000 --> 20:12.000 Silver? 20:12.000 --> 20:17.000 And it looks like as clean a vein as was ever found in the West. 20:29.000 --> 20:32.000 Let's stop in at Gallagher's, men. 20:35.000 --> 20:37.000 Gallagher, we're having a little celebration. 20:37.000 --> 20:39.000 Thought you might want to set up a few rounds. 20:39.000 --> 20:41.000 You keep out of here, Slaughter, 20:41.000 --> 20:43.000 unless you want a warrant for battery slapped on you. 20:43.000 --> 20:45.000 Yeah, battery is right. 20:45.000 --> 20:48.000 You look like you was run over by a stagecoach. 20:48.000 --> 20:49.000 You get out, too. 20:49.000 --> 20:52.000 All of you, get out. I don't need your votes. 20:52.000 --> 20:54.000 Every vote counts, Gallagher. 20:54.000 --> 20:55.000 Sure you don't want to set the boys up? 20:55.000 --> 20:57.000 I told you to get out. 20:57.000 --> 21:00.000 There's one thing I'd like to settle first. 21:00.000 --> 21:05.000 You've been telling these men that Van Ling didn't get $5,000 from Craig for his mine claim. 21:05.000 --> 21:06.000 What makes you think that? 21:06.000 --> 21:09.000 Well, how should I know what Craig paid him? 21:09.000 --> 21:11.000 The transaction took place in your establishment. 21:11.000 --> 21:14.000 I don't remember everything that goes on here. 21:14.000 --> 21:17.000 A short memory is a pretty handy thing. 21:17.000 --> 21:20.000 I guess you wouldn't remember transferring the claim to Van Ling 21:20.000 --> 21:23.000 a month before he sold it to Craig. 21:23.000 --> 21:26.000 No, I don't. 21:26.000 --> 21:28.000 Do you know enough about territorial government 21:28.000 --> 21:32.000 to realize that all mining claim records are filed at Prescott? 21:32.000 --> 21:35.000 And are you keeping close enough track of the election 21:35.000 --> 21:39.000 to realize that Ed Craig has been campaigning up there? 21:39.000 --> 21:41.000 Look, Slaughter, if I gave away a worthless claim 21:41.000 --> 21:44.000 and Craig was foolish enough to buy it, it still doesn't involve me. 21:44.000 --> 21:46.000 Of course you don't. 21:46.000 --> 21:49.000 Van Ling's the one who gets a hunk of the profit. 21:49.000 --> 21:52.000 Did Craig give that poor old coot the same story he gave these men? 21:52.000 --> 21:54.000 You ought to know. 21:54.000 --> 21:59.000 The only thing you don't know is that we struck silver at the Mary's Pride today. 21:59.000 --> 22:00.000 What? 22:00.000 --> 22:03.000 That's right, Gallagher. As rich a load as Ed Shifelin's tombstone strike. 22:03.000 --> 22:04.000 Maybe richer. 22:04.000 --> 22:06.000 Now, now, now, wait a minute. 22:06.000 --> 22:08.000 That was my claim. 22:08.000 --> 22:10.000 I only transferred it to Van Ling, so he could... 22:10.000 --> 22:12.000 Salt it and sell it. 22:12.000 --> 22:15.000 Well, boys, we'd better get to the telegraph office. 22:15.000 --> 22:18.000 There's plenty of time before election to let the whole territory know 22:18.000 --> 22:21.000 that Ed Craig has made a million-dollar strike. 22:21.000 --> 22:24.000 And I'll telegraph Craig not to bother looking up any claim records. 22:24.000 --> 22:35.000 Gallagher's told us everything we need to know. 22:35.000 --> 22:46.000 Fellow citizens of Arizona, there are times when words just can't seem to... 22:46.000 --> 22:49.000 Please try to tell them for me, Luke. 22:49.000 --> 22:52.000 I think they'd rather tell you, Ed. 22:52.000 --> 22:57.000 Boys, how do we feel about our new delegate to the Congress of the United States? 22:57.000 --> 23:09.000 Yay! 23:09.000 --> 23:14.000 Luke Slaughter of Tombstone, starring Sam Buffington, 23:14.000 --> 23:18.000 was written by Fran Van Hardisveldt and directed by William N. Robeson. 23:18.000 --> 23:21.000 Editorial supervision by Tom Hanley. 23:21.000 --> 23:35.000 Supporting Mr. Buffington were Joe DeSantis, Jack Moyles, Barney Phillips, and Junius Matthews. 23:35.000 --> 23:38.000 Next week at this time, we return with... 23:38.000 --> 23:41.000 Slaughter's the name. 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