Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-10-21 | Page 3 | Oil Field Plot

OIL FIELD PLOT "The Oil Field Plot," "The Girl From Frisco." The cast: Barbara Brent (Martin Sais); Congressman John Wallace (True Boardman). At the Rex. Barbara has taken charge of tho work of boring the newest well on her father's oil lands. The Syndicate, Syndi-cate, thwarted in its plan to control tho oil field by Brent's refusal to sell, sends Joyce, its agent, to use underground under-ground means. When oil sand shows the successful completion of her work Barbara Joyously sets out for the city to make arrangements with the railroad rail-road company for tank cars. Joyce, after bribing a discharged employe to plug the well, hurries to tho city and succeeds in having the railroad postpone post-pone its answer to Barbara until after . the conference with the' Syndicate. I Barbara learns of the conference, and, by a successful ruse, succeeds in hav- ing it overheard by a stenographer and a witness. Threatened with exposure of their conspiracy, the railroad officers agree to provide the tank cars. At the moment mo-ment of her triumph Barbara receives a telegram telling of the plugging of the well by Gus, Joyce's henchman. She wires to prepare to use dynamite in "shooting" the well, pending her coming. Meanwhile Wallace, investigating investi-gating at the mine, has been set upon by Joyce's henchmen and made a prisoner.