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Show oo IE PLUNDERERS' lIFlifflGI' "The Ore plunderers" (fifth episodo of "The Girl from Frisco") at the Rex today. Because of his ill health. Ace Brent consents to allow his daughter, Barbara, Bar-bara, to handle the trouble that has cropped up at his Golconda mine through the heavy thefts of a gang of "high graders." The advice of Wallace, Wal-lace, her admirer, against the ad-venture ad-venture is in vain. Arrived on the ground, Barbara decides that the only method of breaking up the work of the high graders is to go Into the mine In disguise herself, as spies inthe past have either been bought off or scared away. She dons overalls and effectually effectu-ally disguises herself, securing a job as a boy. Underground, she befriends Andy, a car boy, who has been the unwilling unwill-ing tool of Miller, leader of the high graders, and from gains the information informa-tion she needs. But Miller and his gang come upon them and, as ho starts to beat Barbara, her cap comes off, disclosing? her wealth of hair. Miller decides on a vengeance that wll forever silence the pair. They are carried to an abandoned shaft .of the mine -and placed in a water-flooded pit. Bound hand and foot, with the outlet pipe flooded, the water mounts .rapidly, and it seems but a matter of minutes before both will meet a terrible terri-ble death. Their fate seems sealed when the militia burst into the town and a rapid-fire battle ensues. The victory of the militia stiffens the backbone of the jury and Miller and his gang get their deserts. |