J. Rufus Wallingford and Blackie Daw, the gentlemen crooks who are endeavoring to recover a stolen fortune for the Warden girls, get a little of their own medicine in this episode. Jones Squibble, the man they have scheduled for a "shakedown," is a tightfisted old farmer, and taxes the Warden girls ten cents for taking a drink from his well. Blackie gets in a jam with him and he, too, is assessed. Then J. Rufus himself runs afoul of Jones for driving his automobile across his property. This angers our hero and he immediately buys the place for $200. He acts the part of a mine owner in boom times and Zeke, the brother of Jones, plants a mine on his property, expecting Wallingford to "fall." But Jones tips him off, expecting J. Rufus to sell him back his property for the sum paid in exchange for the information. However, this our hero refuses to do, and Squibble has to fork over $35,000 for it. But what cares he? He sells it right away for $50,000, and rather slips one over on Wallingford. Nevertheless, the Wardens get their $35,000, just the amount due them.
—Moving Picture World synopsis