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  • The Yellow Jacket Mine (1909)
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The Yellow Jacket Mine (1909)
Short | Short, Western
John Burke and Dick Merton are partners in the Yellow Jacket Mine. Burke is an old miner; Dick, a young man, son of an old comrade of Burke, is the junior member of the firm and much loved by his partner. Carrie, the old miner's only ...See moreJohn Burke and Dick Merton are partners in the Yellow Jacket Mine. Burke is an old miner; Dick, a young man, son of an old comrade of Burke, is the junior member of the firm and much loved by his partner. Carrie, the old miner's only daughter, shares her father's affection for Merton, and in fact her love has grown beyond that of a sister's and her young life is centered in the handsome and sturdy young miner. She has a rival, however, in Bonito Juarez, the pretty and vivacious daughter of old Jose Juarez. Bonito is the belle of the mining camp and has more suitors than she has fingers on her hands. Dick Merton meets her one night at a dance, and from that time on he forgets the little girl who has loved him since childhood. He becomes so madly infatuated with this Mexican beauty that he neglects his work and spends most of his time basking in the sunshine of Bonito's bright eyes. Day after day he urges her to become his wife, but she is not yet ready to give up her freedom, and besides, she tells him, that he has not yet money enough to support her in the style she craves. Weeks pass by and yet Dick is no nearer the culmination of his ambition than at the start. Then comes a change in the attitude of Bonito. Dick is nonplussed at her extreme coldness and indifference to his attentions. There is a reason for this. The little coquette has at last met her fate, and is hard hit. Travers, a young mining speculator, arrives in the camp, and meeting Bonito quite by accident, becomes interested in the dashing Mexican senorita and begins paying her attention. Being city bred, his manners and bearing dazzle Bonito, who has heretofore known the rugged and unpolished men of the mountains. It is not long before Travers learns of Merton's infatuation for the girl, and he at once sets about to put his knowledge of the fact to some practical use. Travers knows of the promising outlook of the Yellow Jacket Mine and wants to get possession of it. He makes the partners a proposition, but they refuse to sell. Then he persuades Bonito to use her wiles against young Merton to entice him into selling his share. On a promise of marriage from Travers, the senorita sets about her task. She tells Merton that if he will sell his share for enough money to insure her a life of ease and luxury she will listen to his entreaties. The poor fellow loses his head at last and sells out to the scheming Travers. Hastening to Bonito's house, he places it all in her hands for safe keeping and goes to inform his old partner of the sale. On his return he is thunderstruck and stunned to catch his sweetheart in the act of flirting with a handsome young Vaquero, who is also badly smitten with the little senorita. Trembling with rage and jealousy. Merton upbraids the girl and demands back his money, but the cunning and treacherous Bonito brazenly tells him that she has not got it, that he never gave her any money. Gradually the truth of the matter dawns upon the young miner and a realization of the woman's duplicity is forced upon him. Bonito, in the meantime, has returned the money to Travers, and suspecting as much, Morton rushes away to find the speculator. The two men meet, but Travers denies any knowledge of the money and advises Merton to be careful in his accusations hereafter. There is nothing left for Merton but an open confession of the whole thing to his old partner. At first old Burke is indignant, but his great heart overcomes his anger and he forgives the foolish boy and promises to stand by him through it all. He proposes to oppose Travers in his claim for the mine, feeling that it was obtained through fraud. Telling Merton to arm himself, they repair to the mine, determined not to give it up without a fight. In the meantime Bonito is pressing Travers to keep his promise and make her his wife. This Travers does not propose to do, and when she becomes too insistent, he brutally tells her that he was only playing with her affections and that henceforth he is through with her. Little does he dream of the fury of a deceived woman of her type, from love her heart changes to hate and she determines upon revenge. Disguising herself in the garb of a young miner, she hastens to the Yellow Jacket Mine to await the arrival of Travers and his party as they come to lake possession of the claim. Travers finds the partners awaiting him, and when he attempts to formally seize the property he is met with a decidedly warm reception. He is about to call on the sheriff to arrest the miners, when Bonito springs forward and denounces him as an impostor and swindler, substantiating her assertion by revealing her identity and confessing her part in the nefarious deal. Travers is seized and searched for more evidence, and the package of money he had paid Merton is found on his person. The sheriff refuses to act further in the matter and advises Travers to make himself scarce, which he does. Bonito thus has her revenge, and Merton's eyes are opened to the fact that little Carrie Burke is, after all, the only girl in the world for him, and that he came near losing a fortune when he bartered, through a foolish infatuation, his share of "The Yellow Jacket Mine." Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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William Nicholas Selig
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Aug 19, 1909 (United States)

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