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The Army sends Hoppy to Arizona Territory to investigate raids on a telegraphic construction project and, after the project leader is killed, uncovers a conspiracy led by the holder of the area trading post enterprise to stop the telegraph.
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00:00Here he comes, here he comes, there's the trumpets, there's the drums, here he comes.
00:08Popolum Cassidy, here he comes.
00:16I was headed for Frank Sawyer's construction camp with army credentials signed by Major Rollins.
00:30Commandant of Fort Oribe, Arizona Territory. My orders were to troubleshoot a series of
00:35raids on supplies and equipment which had halted the proposed telegraph line, linking
00:39a network of Army posts between Tombstone and Oribe. Woman Jack Lawson claimed it was
00:45almost impossible to hire back men who had been scared off their job. Frank Sawyer and
00:50his daughter Jane had already overspent their low bid for the network building franchise
00:54when they received the $25,000 subsidy which Major Rawlins had persuaded the War Department
00:59to grant them. Big John Bragg, an influential citizen of Tombstone and a pioneer trader of
01:06the territory had been in on my conference with Major Rawlins. Hello, Bragg. Hello. We got the money
01:13from the government. Good. And Hopalong Cassidy will be here after he brushes up on his telegraphy.
01:18I certainly hope he can get to the bottom of this mess. Oh, look, Frank. As far as I'm concerned,
01:23it's the Apaches in back of those raids on the telegraph. But they're afraid of what they
01:27call deviled lightning. Jane's right. It's more apt to be a group of white men out to grab
01:32control for their own private profit. I think Dad's right.
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02:06Frank Sawyer.
02:13That's right.
02:14My name is Cassidy.
02:16Oh.
02:18Hop along, Cassidy.
02:25I was just getting the facts and figures together for you and I to go over.
02:28I'll have to wait till I get back.
02:29I'm going on to Tombstone.
02:30Today?
02:32It's the way I work, Sawyer.
02:33You've got the government subsidy from the War Department, haven't you?
02:36Yes, it's in the safe.
02:37You can draw on it as you need it.
02:40Good.
02:40I'll take it all.
02:42Now.
02:44$25,000?
02:46But, Cassidy, there's a wagon load of supplies on the way.
02:48Enough to last till we move to the next camp.
02:50I've been hired to ramrod this job, Sawyer.
02:53I'm going to line up the men on the material to see it through.
02:57Well?
02:58Of course, I guess you know what you're doing.
03:00I'll get it for you.
03:06That's Tombstone asking confirmation of the supply order I dispatched yesterday.
03:11Answer, will you?
03:11Well, why don't you answer?
03:17We're not through yet.
03:18The thing is still ticking.
03:19That's Tombstone asking confirmation of the supply order I dispatched yesterday.
03:26Answer, will you?
03:34Well, why don't you answer?
03:36We're not through yet.
03:37The thing is still ticking.
03:41These credentials say that you're thoroughly trained in telegraphy.
03:45Yeah, sure.
03:46So what?
03:47So you'd know Tombstone was merely repeating their request.
03:51So I don't think you're Hopalong Cassidy.
04:17Dad!
04:17Dad!
04:21Dad!
04:22Dad!
04:31Dad!
04:33Dad!
04:33Dad! Dad!
04:42Jane!
04:44What's happened?
04:54Massive.
05:03The next day, that construction camp was a discouraging sight.
05:09I had no way of knowing that Sawyer's daughter and his construction foreman
05:13had just returned from a simple burial in that lonely wilderness.
05:19Did you say that killer wore a black outfit and rode a white horse?
05:22Yes, why?
05:33How do you do, miss?
05:34That's a good, mister. You've got some questions to answer.
05:37Yeah, I'm afraid you're making a mistake. My name's Cassidy.
05:39You admit that? After murdering my father and stealing $25,000?
05:44Murdering your father? I don't...
05:46Cover him. I'll see if he's got any of that money on him.
05:48Hey, wait a minute now. I was sent here...
05:50You'll be sent to kingdom come if you don't stand still now.
05:58He doesn't have it on him.
05:59Miss, really, I don't know anything about any money.
06:02I saw you right away from here.
06:04Now talk, mister.
06:05Where is her? I'll let you have it.
06:07No, Lawson. I'll wear the marshal at Tombstone.
06:09There's been enough killing.
06:10I'll take the responsibility for this one.
06:15Stop or I'll shoot!
06:16I wouldn't do that if I was you, ma'am.
06:19Hiya, Hoppy.
06:20Hiya, Red.
06:21I'm just about to be executed without benefit of trial.
06:24Excuse me.
06:25Miss, this is Red Connors, my ranch foreman.
06:28Before I left Fort Arrive, I sent word for him to meet me here.
06:31I've done a lot of ordinary things in my day, ma'am, but working for a killer ain't one of them.
06:35You got Hoppy all wrong.
06:37Then try to explain this.
06:42That letter floored me.
06:44It was worded exactly like the credentials and orders I had received in strict confidence at Fort Arrive.
06:49Where would I be?
06:52Do you think you'd better take that message?
06:55Mr. Lawson, our foreman doesn't operate a telegraph.
06:58Oh, well, I'll take it. Why don't you look at my credentials that Major Rollins gave me?
07:01This letter's a forgery.
07:02Well, does the official seal of the United States Army explain the difference?
07:14I'm sorry.
07:15So am I, Cassidy.
07:16But you've made this trip for nothing.
07:17Miss Jane's giving up.
07:18She's going home.
07:19Everything is gone.
07:20What else can I do?
07:21Well, do what your father would have done.
07:22Fight.
07:23Major Rollins told me that he taught you all he knew about engineering.
07:27This job was his dream.
07:28You can't give up now.
07:29The Sawyer Construction Company's gone broke.
07:31The government won't gamble anymore.
07:32Well, there's nothing wrong with private capital.
07:34Is your father's interest in this company for sale?
07:36Well, I'm sorry.
07:37I'm sorry.
07:38So am I, Cassidy.
07:39But you've made this trip for nothing.
07:40Miss Jane's giving up.
07:41She's going home.
07:42Everything is gone.
07:43What else can I do?
07:44Well, do what your father would have done.
07:45Fight.
07:46Major Rollins told me that he taught you all he knew about engineering.
07:48This job was his dream.
07:49You can't give up now.
07:50The Sawyer Construction Company's gone broke.
07:52The government won't gamble anymore.
07:53Well, there's nothing wrong with private capital.
07:54Is your father's interest in this company for sale?
07:56Good.
07:57I'll wire the tombstone mercantile for an emergency loan.
08:00Banks have loaned money on the bar 20 before.
08:03Well, in that case, I'll go see if there are any of those poles I can salvage.
08:26That message I took a while ago said there'd be a load of supplies in this afternoon.
08:29So I'll take this map and look over the survey.
08:32I want you to know I'm awfully sorry about your father.
08:36See you later.
08:37Hey, Hoppy.
08:38Yeah?
08:39Bar 20's never borrowed a nickel from any bank and you know it.
08:40But Jane and her foreman don't know that.
08:41I had to do something to keep them walking off the job.
08:42How long you think you can keep up a plan like this?
08:43Well, that we get back some of the money and materials that have been stolen from the Sawyer thing.
08:44I hope.
08:45You got any ideas?
08:46I read those raiders had to get confidential information some way.
08:47And for a man who's not supposed to know anything about telegraphy, Lawson was mighty interested in those messages coming and going over that instrument.
08:56Huh?
08:57Huh?
08:58Huh?
08:59Huh?
09:00Huh?
09:01Read those raiders had to get confidential information some way.
09:04And for a man that doesn't know anything about telegraphy, Lawson was mighty interest in those messages coming and going over that instrument.
09:11Huh?
09:31There's a Cayuse Lawson took off on.
09:44There's a horse that looks pretty much like Topper, too.
09:47This is getting to be right interesting.
10:01Which will we trail, Lawson or the others?
10:18No, I'll go after the one Lawson pulled away from that white horse.
10:21We might find that he's got a blackout fit to go with it.
10:23Come on.
10:25Come on.
10:25Come on.
10:31Come on.
11:01Come on.
11:31Come on.
11:35Come on.
11:39Come on.
11:40Come on.
11:41Come on, run for it.
12:00Are we going after the others?
12:01Uh-uh, never mind them.
12:03Wagon's safe.
12:11Turk Shams.
12:16Didn't you run him out of Kansas?
12:18Yeah.
12:19And he'd have known how to fake that outfit of mine
12:21and try to get even by framing me for murder, too.
12:26But he couldn't possibly have known the details of my credentials.
12:30Somebody had to forge those for him.
12:34See what he's got here.
12:38Well.
12:38Well, probably part of that money stolen from Sawyer.
12:42And I'll bet that Jack Lawson got the rest of it.
12:44Wait a minute.
12:45What's the hurry?
12:47We saw Jack Lawson send him.
12:48We're going to report we ran onto this by accident.
12:51Well, can't he even tell Miss Jane you got her daddy's killer?
12:54I'd like to, Red, but I don't want Lawson to know about this
12:57till I find out who he's working for.
12:59If he finds out now, we're right back where we started from.
13:02What do you mean?
13:03They can replace Lawson.
13:05These fellas are playing for big stakes.
13:06He's not smart enough or rich enough to boss this deal.
13:10Well, who is?
13:11That's only a guess as to who.
13:13I'm beginning to get a brand new slant on why.
13:16So?
13:17So we're going to have a look in on that trading post at Burning Springs.
13:22We'd better do something about him.
13:23That night after sneaking out of the camp
13:28and jimmying a window at the trading post,
13:32I was about to give up the search inside
13:38when I discovered the false bottom in one of the desk drawers.
13:41Shh, quiet.
14:00Quiet.
14:00There's enough wire under this building
14:17to fence the bar 20.
14:19Yeah?
14:20Yeah, wait a minute.
14:21This book's got a list of a whole chain of trading posts
14:25and the names of the men who were supposed to own them.
14:28What's so exciting about that?
14:30Here, read these off to me.
14:31Wait a minute.
14:32Come on, read them all.
14:36Fort Smith trading post.
14:38Yeah.
14:39James Uniker.
14:41Uniker.
14:42Uniker.
14:43Yeah, Sandstone trading post.
14:45Yeah.
14:46George, uh...
14:47Hold it.
14:47Somebody come in.
14:49Stop.
15:05All right, you're covered.
15:07Come on out.
15:13Hold on.
15:17I'm all tuckered out.
15:34Now, you can turn in now.
15:36Just give me that book.
15:37What book?
15:41The ledger I gave you at the trading post.
15:45Gosh, Hoppy, I ain't got it.
15:46I used it to put out the light.
15:49Was it important?
15:50Read that ledger was written proof
15:52that Big John Bragg owns this whole string of trading posts.
15:55Those other names in there don't mean a thing.
15:57Who's Big John Bragg?
15:59Oh, never mind now.
16:00But if that man at the trading post recognized us,
16:02we're gonna have to move fast.
16:04What do you mean?
16:06We'd have a tough time proving
16:07how much money John Bragg stands to lose
16:09by letting that telegraph get into the territory.
16:12Well, don't worry, Hoppy.
16:14I'll take up something.
16:16The next morning, Lawson made a point of reminding Jane
16:22that I hadn't received approval of the loan I requested.
16:24That gave me a good excuse for getting away from the camp.
16:28I told him I was going to look into the matter
16:29and signaled Red to follow as soon as he got a chance.
16:34You dragged me all the way out here just to look at the scenery?
16:38That's right.
16:39You better take a good look at it while it's still pretty.
16:41I expect something ugly to be added any minute.
16:44Is that what you mean?
16:50That's right.
16:56Now you know what Big John Bragg looks like.
16:59I sent for him last night.
17:01Just to satisfy my curiosity a little bit.
17:03You sent for him?
17:05Sure.
17:06Well, I did take the liberty of signing Jack Lawson's name to the telegram.
17:11Mr. Cassidy, you ought to be ashamed of yourself.
17:14That poor Jasper looks like he's been riding all night long.
17:18Never underestimate the power of the telegraph, Mr. Connors.
17:22Now we'll see what happens to Mr. Lawson.
17:25Come on.
17:41When are you going to start letting me in on your brainstorm?
17:44Whenever you learn to stay awake.
17:45Now when I get up on the pole, I'm going to throw this wire down.
17:50I want you to tie it off to that steel's fake down there.
17:53You know, I never know what I'm doing left or I've got it done.
17:58I'm wide awake now and I don't know what I'm doing.
18:00I mean, I don't know what you're doing.
18:02You will in a minute.
18:03Get off your horse and catch this wire.
18:11Here he comes.
18:12Hold on to it now. Tie it off that stick.
18:24Cut it tight.
18:31All right.
18:32Oh, do it! Hoppy! Hoppy!
18:38A little hot, huh?
18:39Take your hand off of that.
19:09Hello, Byers.
19:13Frank, what's wrong?
19:15Where's Lawson?
19:16He wired me to meet him here.
19:17I don't know.
19:18I haven't seen him since Cassidy beat us to a supply shipment.
19:21He hinted that Cassidy was getting wise to the setup.
19:24Then it was Cassidy.
19:25What are you talking about?
19:27Two thieves that broke in here last night.
19:29I caught them going through the desk.
19:30Get rid of it.
19:40Take it away and hide it.
19:41All right.
20:00Big John.
20:00I'm sure glad you're here.
20:03Cassidy has raised enough money for Jane Sawyer
20:05to finish that line to arrive you.
20:07How do you know?
20:08I just intercepted a message from Tombstone Mercantile.
20:11Said the money was due to arrive by special messenger today.
20:14Now, if it gets here...
20:15Where is Cassidy?
20:16He's on his way to Tombstone, and he's bound to run into that messenger.
20:20But if I just had enough men...
20:21Just a minute.
20:22If Cassidy was on his way to Tombstone, he'd have run into me.
20:26Did you wire me to meet you here this morning?
20:28Why, no.
20:29It's a trap.
20:30What?
20:31And I'm not going to take a chance at losing all the time and money I've got in this thing.
20:34We'll take cover on the outside.
20:37And if and when Cassidy rides up, we'll let him have it.
20:44All right, back inside.
20:45Come on, get over there.
20:47Get over.
20:49You had a good idea, but you should have thought of it a little sooner.
20:52I don't know what you're talking about.
20:54Oh, but the War Department will.
20:56Especially when they have proof of your reasons for conniving with a bunch of cutthroats to murder Frank Sawyer.
21:01Red, see if the other man's here.
21:02Yeah.
21:03Get over to the desk.
21:04Come on, get over there.
21:07Come on, get over there.
21:08Come on, get over there.
21:09Come on, get over there.
21:10Come on, get over there.
21:11Come on, get over there.
21:12Come on, get over there.
21:13Come on, get over there.
21:14Come on, get over there.
21:15Come on, get over there.
21:16Come on, get over there.
21:17Come on, get over there.
21:18Come on, get over there.
21:19Come on, get over there.
21:20Come on, get over there.
21:21Come on, get over there.
21:22Come on, get over there.
21:23Come on, get over there.
21:24Come on, get over there.
21:25Come on, get over there.
21:26Come on, get over there.
21:27Come on, get over there.
21:58And you knew that the telegraph would make it unnecessary for the army to maintain permanent garrisons in this string of forts.
22:16And that when those garrisons moved out, your contracts to feed the troops would be worth practically nothing.
22:22Contracts that you've been collecting thousands of legitimate dollars a year on.
22:26Yeah, not to count the thousands he's been gouging out of the government by padding, overcharging, and shortwave.
22:31That's very nice, Cassidy.
22:34But you're forgetting my standing in the Arizona Territory.
22:37I wonder whose word the law would take.
22:40Yours or mine?
22:42Oh, we know you're a big man in the Arizona Territory.
22:46Influential with the law and all that.
22:48That's why we have to have proof.
22:50Keep him covered, Red.
22:51Hold it.
23:05Sure, Cassidy.
23:11Cassidy, I've been fighting to keep the telegraph out of my territory.
23:15I reckon I'm guilty of all the things you've figured out.
23:19Even though sending Turk Shands to pose as you and kill Frank Sawyer if need be.
23:24Yes, I risk everything to stop the war department in their last fling with the telegraph.
23:29But I've won, Cassidy.
23:32And you won't be around to tell them how.
23:34While I'm still judging jury here, get over there.
23:41I'm ordering an execution with a three-man firing squad.
23:46Ready?
23:48Aim.
24:04Here he comes!
24:20Ah, come in, Jane.
24:23Miss Jane, you just robbed us of a couple of golden harps.
24:27I only did what Hoppy told me to do.
24:29Kept out of sight and trailed the first man I saw leaving with the book.
24:31Oh, that book means smooth sailing from now on.
24:35Fortunately, I forgot to tell you when to quit following the man.
24:38All right, Big John, on your feet.
24:41Get the others, Red.
24:42From here on, we'll let the telegraph take over.
24:46Come on!
24:51Hi, my young friends.
24:54You know, I've had a lot of letters in the last six or eight months about
24:57you not wearing your raincoats and your overshoes.
25:01Now, the reason you don't see Hoppy on a raincoat and overshoes is that I live in a country where
25:06there isn't too much rain.
25:08But you must always, when it is raining, wear your raincoats and your overshoes.
25:14And there's one more thought, too.
25:16Don't leave them at the schoolhouse.
25:19Bring them home, will you?
25:20I'll see you next week.
25:23And be sure and wear those, will you?
25:25There he goes, on his way, down the moon, the trail to where cowboys rain.
25:35Hop along, Cassidy.
25:39Hop along, Cassidy.
25:41He'll return soon again.
25:44There's no use to say goodbye until then.
25:50Hop along, Cassidy.
25:53So long, hop along.
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