May 10, 2025 • 25 mins
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Luke Slaughter of Tombstone debuted on February 23, 1958 and, sadly, only ran for a total of 16 episodes. Sam Buffington played Luke Slaughter, a Civil War cavalry officer, turned cattle rancher, in post-Civil War Arizona Territory near Fort Huachuca and the town of Tombstone, not far from the U.S. southern border. This was a well-received program but was cut short due to the pressure of television at the time. At the beginning of each show we hear "Slaughter's my name, Luke Slaughter. Cattle's my business. It's a tough business, it's a big business. I got a big stake in it. And there's no man west of the Rio Grande big enough to take it away from me."
Luke Slaughter of Tombstone debuted on February 23, 1958 and, sadly, only ran for a total of 16 episodes. Sam Buffington played Luke Slaughter, a Civil War cavalry officer, turned cattle rancher, in post-Civil War Arizona Territory near Fort Huachuca and the town of Tombstone, not far from the U.S. southern border. This was a well-received program but was cut short due to the pressure of television at the time. At the beginning of each show we hear "Slaughter's my name, Luke Slaughter. Cattle's my business. It's a tough business, it's a big business. I got a big stake in it. And there's no man west of the Rio Grande big enough to take it away from me."
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Slaughter's my name. Luke Slaughter. Cattle's my business. It's a
tough business, it's big business. I've got a big stake
in it, and there's no man west of the Rio
Grand big enough to take it from me.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Luke Slutter of Tombstone. Luke Slutter of Tombstone. Civil War
cattalryman turned Arizona cattleman. Across the territory from Yuma to
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Fort Defiance, from Flagstaff to the Wachukas, and below the
border through Chihwaha and Sonora. His name was respected or feared,
depending on which side of the law you are on.
Man of vision, man of legend, Luke Slutter of Tombstone.
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Speaker 2 (02:11):
Now, Luke Slatter of Tombstone.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Ed Craig came to Tombstone from the East a little
after I settled here. Ed was well fixed, didn't have
to scratch out a living like most of us, and
in his quiet, likable manner, he soon proved to be
the kind of man Arizona needed.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Yes, I think I can do some good for the
territory in Washington. If the voters want to send me.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
There, you certainly can. Ed, I delicate ought to be
a much stronger man than some of the ones we've sent.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
I got all the respect in the world for mister Craig.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
Luke, what's the shen you have elected a good man
in the United States Congress when he don't even have
a vote after he gets.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
There, he'll have a vote when Arizona becomes a state. Meanwhile,
we need a delegate who can make the federal government
understand our needs and our future well.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Paul Gallagher's again statehood.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
He says, if we got it, we'd be taxed out
of our boots the way it is now.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
He says, we're getting a free ride.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
It seems to me Paul Gallagher's again progress. I'm afraid
the main reason he's running against me is to get
that free ride to Washington and back every year.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
That's about the size of it. And he doesn't need
the free part any more than you do. He's made
a lot of money out of his saloon, in his
gambling room.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
I would know about that. All I know is that
he bellowed like a branded longhorn about half the gambling
license fees going into the school fund.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Bellowed like a branded longhorn.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
Mister Craig, you're even starting to talk something like a Westerner.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
He thinks like an American wichitoe. And that's the kind
of man Arizona needs for its delegate. Remember, I still
have to be elected. You will be.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
You know, I have a personal reason for wanting to
be in Washington. My little girl goes to school in Baltimore.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Oh you got a sprout. I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
So it's another picture and you watch it.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Well here it is.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Why she ain't no sprout. She's a growed up young lady,
and Purty is a.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
Spotted puppy riding through snowstorm a little red wagon.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Thanks for the time, Well, I've got to be getting along, Luke.
Thanks for your confidence. Well, I wish you wouldn't hurry, Ed,
I have an appointment over at Gallagher Saloon. I'm buying
a gold mine.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
What that's right?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
An old prospector named Van Ling wants to sell his claim.
Says it's more fun discovering gold than working to get
it out of the ground.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Now wait a minute, Ed, I've never heard of any
worthwhile gold oer in these parts. Oh the silver shifling
strike proved that. But I'd never gamble on gold.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
I'd never gamble on no more silver.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
I figure old Schaeffan found only loading the mule.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Mountains Man Link took me out to his claim, and
I watched him take the samples. They I say, it
high enough to be worth taking a chance.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
To your money, Ed, But you're no more a mining
expert than I am.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
I know, I know. I just figure I can put
some men to work, and if the veins as rich
as it seems to be, their families will be comfortable
for life.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
You mean you're gonna hire on a profit sharing basis.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
I've got as much money as I need, and I
hope what the men get they'll sort of invest back
in Arizona.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Eh, what cash money weeds you pin?
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Haha? Exactly what Luke pays you, Whishita. And if you
quit him to work for me, you might not get
your ranch job back if the claim peters out.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
I wasn't asking for no different job. I know when
I'm well off, when I am setting on a horse.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Just don't get so wrapped up in helping people that
you forget the campaign ed because you can really help
them When your Arizona's delegate to Congress.
Speaker 7 (06:10):
Four thousand, eight hundred, four thousand, nine hundred five than
at your correct amount, mister Craig, and you got your
shelf a gold mine.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Bye, mister Vanley. The paper seem to be an order,
and I'll take care of filing the transfer.
Speaker 8 (06:25):
That's a lot of cash money to be carrying around
Tombstone van mm hmm. Here to leave it in my
safe overnight.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
One I might just do.
Speaker 8 (06:34):
Let mister Gallagher, were aty you see in my office. Well, Craig,
this will be an interesting experience.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
For you, I think so. I think it'll be a
profitable one.
Speaker 8 (06:44):
If it is, maybe you'll quit harping on statehood for
the territory government take it all away in taxes.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Statehood's a few years away, mister Gallagher.
Speaker 8 (06:53):
No matter which one of us goes to Washington, your
ideas are too fancy for us out here, Craig. Then
I have a Westerner to represent the West. We'll see
what the people decide that we will. And no hard
feelings either way. Mister vand Ling. If you change your
mind about joining the mine crew, just look me up
mu pretty for certain.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
I will well keep in touch anyway. Remember you'll get
a share of the profits.
Speaker 8 (07:16):
Come along to my office, old timer, all right, if
you a receipt electioneer, if you want a Craig, even
if this is my place, I'll let.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
The electioneery go until I rolled up to the miner.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Hold it, hold it, I'll go ahead.
Speaker 8 (07:31):
It's worth laughing at.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
His share the profits.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
We put it over on him, real smart like mister Gattiger.
Speaker 8 (07:40):
It wasn't hard.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Give me the money, man.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I get three headed.
Speaker 8 (07:44):
I would remember, that's right, one hundred now and two hundred.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
When I know you're a humor I did.
Speaker 7 (07:50):
I kind of like to stay around and watch your fun.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Your mouth's too big, old timer.
Speaker 8 (07:55):
I wouldn't want Craig to find out he actually bought
that claim from.
Speaker 9 (07:58):
Me, by the word, and you fixed the papers yourself.
Speaker 8 (08:03):
You're going to Yuma. By the time you get there,
it'll be time to start spreading the word that mister
Edward Craig, candidate for Delegate from the territory of Arizona,
is pouring a fortune in It was solid gold mine.
I bet you win that election, mister galligett safe at
bet you'll ever make. When the people find out how
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little Craig knows about the West, they'll laugh him right
out of Arizona.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
The claim didn't look like much to me. There were
traces of gold in the sandstone where old van Ling
had roughed out the start of a mine shaft, but
they were shallow deposits, and they disappeared when Craig's men
got the tunneling a real shaft. The crew worked with
picks and shovels and drew their pay regularly. Then at
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last the tracks and mine carts and heavy ore crushing
equipment arrived in Benson by rail, and the whole mind
force went down to mule freight it back to Tombstone.
I persuaded ed to make a trip to the mine
with Wichita on me while the men weren't around.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
We'll make a lot more progress when we get the
machinery in, Luke.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Well, you'll dig deeper faster, that's sure.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
He ain't no machinery. Bin ingranted it'll put gold in
the ground where they ain't.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
I don't want to put it in. I want to
get it out.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Do you mind my asking how much this equipment set
in your backhead?
Speaker 4 (09:32):
About ten thousand? Another couple thousand to ship it.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Then with your payroll, you're close to twenty thousand in
the hole.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
I think it's a sound investment. Now, Uh you mind
me asking you something, Luke?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Nope, you're gonna ask me to keep my nose out
of your personal business.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
Out at all.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
I'm just curious about that old muzzle loading rifle. Now.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I've been studying up on gold, this antique guns for
a little experiment I want to make. Whoa, yeah, yeah,
Mary's pride mine.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
You gotta shine on a tunnel anyway, I named it
after my daughter. You'll be proud as punch when I
telegraph it. We've hit high grade ore.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Oh, I've got some high grade gold nuggets here. Ed,
I'm gonna put a charge of powder in this old blunderbuss,
tamp the wadding, use a nugget for a bullet, and
fire into the rock near the shaft opening. Now we'll
repeat the experiment.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Now, what kind of nonsense is this, Louke?
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Are you better short of hope? It is nonsense, mister Craig.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Here goes another one. Now let's take a look at
the sandstone. Well how about it? Ed, look like places
where van link chipped off the samples.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Oh, yes, that's just the way the gold flicks would
we're distributed. Look, I bought a salted mine, didn't I.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I'm afraid you did it. You fire soft gold into
soft rock, and it looks for all the world like
the real thing.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
Zapatche for one of the scummiest tricks a Westerner can
play on an Easterner, mister Craig.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
I.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
When this gets out, I'm going to shape up as
a fine candidate to represent the people of the West.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
That may have been what someone was thinking when you
fell for the trick, and I doubt if Old van
Ling is much interested in politics.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Animal and Luke Slaughter of Tombstone returns with the warm weather.
Here young folks are champing at the bit to get
outdoors and enjoy themselves. Many of them, far too many,
in fact, may be thinking of quitting school after this
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semester and going to work. If they're not graduating. This
June asked them to give the matter a second thought.
The grass may look very green and inviting from the
classroom window, but if they don't complete high school or college,
they may be looking just as longingly out the window
twenty years from now, bored and disgusted with a dull
or menial, poor paying job. The good jobs, the interesting jobs,
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the secured jobs, and the high salary jobs are reserved
for those with cottage degrees. There are some pretty good
jobs for high school graduates too, but remember this, the
less education you have, the less money you're likely to
earn during your lifetime. You may hear of a lot
of people being out of work today. But there's still
a crying need for engineers, scientists, doctors, nurses and teachers
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and jobs like that require a sound completed education. Urge
the young people, you know, to qualify for them. They
can if they stay in school and graduate. And now
Act two of William and Robson's production of Luke Slutter
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of Tombstone.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Ed Craig had bought a salted gold mine. There wasn't
any doubt about it. And if we'd got out ridicule
was going to ruin his chance of beating Paul Gallagher
in the election for territorial delegate to the United States Congress.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
As I see it, gentlemen, there's only one thing I
can do.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Close up the mine.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Huh know what? You ton keep digging. My men have
their families in Tombstone. Some of them have brought them
a long way to settle here. If people think I'm
a fool, they'll just have to think it. But I'm
not going to shut down until I find something else
for the men to do.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Can you afford it it?
Speaker 4 (14:08):
I can for a while anyway. And just because the
top stratum was salted, it's no proof there isn't pay dirt. Further, in, mister.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
Craig, I wouldn't trade a spavined broomtail range Mustang for
this whole dang rock pile, and neither would anybody else
in the right chances much a.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
T are Ed. We both admire you, and we both
wish you all the luck in the world.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Oh well, of course we do.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
I never said I didn't wish your luck, but you sure.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Going to need it.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Election day was getting close, and Ed Craig's chances looked
worse and worse out here. The weak and the foolish
don't survive long, and in the eyes of the hard
working settlers, Ed looked more than a little foolish. Money
doesn't come easy to our people. They don't like to
see a man throw it away, especially when they don't
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understand his motives. And Paul Gallagher slandered those motives, even
to the men who were benefiting from them. Out here.
Speaker 8 (15:16):
Mister Rollinson, I'll be whisky, I guess. Oh, put your
money away, my friend. Huh, this is on the house.
Speaker 9 (15:24):
It's very nice here.
Speaker 8 (15:25):
Mister Gallagher's still working for Craig at the Mary's Pride.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
That's right, Maybe not for long, eh, Oh.
Speaker 9 (15:33):
No, we sure ain't fining pay dirt, but Craig keeps
handing over our wages.
Speaker 8 (15:38):
Yes, those wages aren't quite as much as you hope
to make on the deal.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Well, no, we make a strike. We're all going to
share in the profits that Craig is a fast talker.
Speaker 8 (15:49):
And I bet you wouldn't have moved your family down
from Globe if you'd known.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
It was for just a few weeks.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Poor pay. Pardon me for interrupting. It's been a few months,
and that's mighty good pay.
Speaker 8 (16:00):
Well, slaughter our private conversations between my customers and me,
any concerned yours.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
When they're derogatory to one of the finest men in
the territory.
Speaker 9 (16:09):
Yes, mister slaughter. Mister Craig's nice enough, but we were
led to believe we were gonna make a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
I bet you're making more now than you've ever made
in your life. How long is it gonna last? Slaughter?
Speaker 8 (16:21):
When the election's over, Craig will shut up that mine
like it was a pest house. But makes you think so,
because Craig's not a complete fool. He got stuck with
a salted mine. He figured he'd hide it under a
big gesture, a gesture that might even get him elected.
Then when he got to Washington, he'd make it up.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
And Graft got any more to say.
Speaker 8 (16:40):
Gallagher only that Arizona folks aren't stupid enough to be
taken in by an Eastern swindler.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
I dare you to say that again any place except
in your own miserable gambling house. You heard me this time.
Speaker 8 (16:53):
No need to chew my cabbage twice.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
You better come with me, Relinson, Well long, and mister
Gallagher is setting up drinks your own way. But remember
who's setting up the food for your kids, Luke.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
I don't see what good we're doing, mister Craig while
coming out to the mind when he ain't even here.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
We may be doing a lot of good.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
But the elections day after tomorrow and the way people
are talking, he ain't got a chinaman's chance to win.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Craig knows that too, Wichita. He wouldn't be nearly as
disappointed over losing, so he would be to find as
miners have let him down.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Yeah, pears ain't doing much mining today. Looks more like
they're having theirselves as sociable.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Gallagher's talking to him bad.
Speaker 8 (17:50):
I'd be doing you men a favorite if I came
out and told you what Craig is trying to pull.
Ah As for myself, I don't believe he got the
assays samples from this claim at all. I don't believe
he paid old handling any five thousand dollars. I think
the whole thing was a planned swindle to get him
to Washington and to make you pay taxes to a
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state and a federal government.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
I told you not to call Craig a swindler again. Gallagher, Wait, wait,
wait for what. I'll take that gun, gallaghery, And now
I'll take you now. Boys. As you know, mister Craig
is campaigning in Prescott. He'll be back for the election,
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and it doesn't look like he can win. Craig isn't
a mining expert. He fell for assaulted claim. I told
him so weeks ago, and I guess all Arizona knows
it now. But he kept all of you working because
he felt a responsibility to you and your families, and
for some strange reason, because he still has faith in
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this mind. Maybe that faith boils down to faith in
the West and the men I want to live here. Now,
what do you say we forget about the election. And
when Ed Craig comes home, we'll show him the longest
mind tunnel he ever saw. Whether there's gold in it
or not, I'm gonna dig Wichitar is gonna dig.
Speaker 10 (19:15):
How about the rest of you keep funk pars coming back,
then we'll keep him filled out.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
There was a pretty enticing speech you made, Luke. When
I started swinging this pick.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
I almost enjoyed it. But now the rock's getting all hard.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Keep swinging anyway.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
But it short? Oh no, no soft right here?
Speaker 3 (19:57):
No?
Speaker 5 (20:00):
You see soft and kind of ladish colored?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Would you tell this? Get that light inclusive?
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Eh?
Speaker 1 (20:10):
This is silver to silver and it looks like as
clean a vein as was ever found in the west.
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Let's stop in at Gallaghers, Manager.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
Gallagher, we're having a little celebration.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
I thought you might want to set up a few rounds.
Speaker 8 (20:40):
You'll keep out of here, slaughter, unless you want to
warn for battery slapped on you.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Yeah, battery is right. You look like you would run
over my stage.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
You'll get out too.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
I'll let you get out.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
I don't need your votes. Every vote counts, Gallagher. Sure
you don't want to set the boys up.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
I told you to get out.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
There's one thing I'd like to settle first. You've been
telling these men that van Ling didn't get five thousand
dollars from Craig for his mind claim. What makes you
think that?
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Well?
Speaker 1 (21:08):
How should I know what Craig paid him? The transaction
took place in your establishment.
Speaker 8 (21:12):
I don't remember everything that goes on here.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
A short memory is a pretty handy thing. I guess
you wouldn't remember transferring the claim to van Ling a
month before he sold it to Craig.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
No, I don't.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Do you know enough about territorial government to realize that
all mining claim records are filed at Prescott? And are
you keeping close enough track of the election to realize
that Ed Craig has been campaigning up there?
Speaker 8 (21:38):
Look, slaughter, If I gave away a worthless claim and
Craig was foolish enough to buy it, it still doesn't
involve me.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
Ah course you don't. Van Ling's the one who gets
you a hunk of the prophet.
Speaker 8 (21:49):
Did Craig give that poor old Coot the same story
he gave these men?
Speaker 1 (21:52):
You ought to know the only thing you don't know
is that we struck silver at the Mary's Pride. Today's
right Gallagher's Rich Alda's Head, Shafferm's Tombstone strike maybe rich.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Now wait a minute, that was my car.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
I only transferred it to Van Lynn, so he consulted
and sellid Well, boys, we better get to the telegraph office.
There's plenty of time before election to let the whole
territory know that Ed Craig has made a million dollars strike.
And I'll telegraph Craig not to bother looking up any
claim records. Gallagher's told us everything we need to know.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Fellow citizens of Arizona.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
There are times when words just can't seem to.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Please.
Speaker 11 (22:47):
Try to tell them for me, Luke, I think they'd
rather tell you, boys, how do we feel about our
new delegate to the Congress of the United States?
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Luke Slaughter of Tombstone, starring Sam Buffington, was written by
fran Van Hardisfeld and directed by William N. Robeson editorial
supervision by Tom Henley. Supporting mister Buffington were Jodasentis, Jack Moyles,
Barney Phillips, and Julius Matthews. Next week, at this time
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Speaker 1 (23:38):
With Slaughter's the name Luke Slutter. When we meet up again,
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Speaker 1 (25:09):
At about to sackcown Don
Speaker 7 (25:12):
At the spot, Sup back down, and then
Slaughter's my name. Luke Slaughter. Cattle's my business. It's a
tough business, it's big business. I've got a big stake
in it, and there's no man west of the Rio
Grand big enough to take it from me.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Luke Slutter of Tombstone. Luke Slutter of Tombstone. Civil War
cattalryman turned Arizona cattleman. Across the territory from Yuma to
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Fort Defiance, from Flagstaff to the Wachukas, and below the
border through Chihwaha and Sonora. His name was respected or feared,
depending on which side of the law you are on.
Man of vision, man of legend, Luke Slutter of Tombstone.
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Speaker 2 (02:11):
Now, Luke Slatter of Tombstone.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Ed Craig came to Tombstone from the East a little
after I settled here. Ed was well fixed, didn't have
to scratch out a living like most of us, and
in his quiet, likable manner, he soon proved to be
the kind of man Arizona needed.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Yes, I think I can do some good for the
territory in Washington. If the voters want to send me.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
There, you certainly can. Ed, I delicate ought to be
a much stronger man than some of the ones we've sent.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
I got all the respect in the world for mister Craig.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
Luke, what's the shen you have elected a good man
in the United States Congress when he don't even have
a vote after he gets.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
There, he'll have a vote when Arizona becomes a state. Meanwhile,
we need a delegate who can make the federal government
understand our needs and our future well.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Paul Gallagher's again statehood.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
He says, if we got it, we'd be taxed out
of our boots the way it is now.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
He says, we're getting a free ride.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
It seems to me Paul Gallagher's again progress. I'm afraid
the main reason he's running against me is to get
that free ride to Washington and back every year.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
That's about the size of it. And he doesn't need
the free part any more than you do. He's made
a lot of money out of his saloon, in his
gambling room.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
I would know about that. All I know is that
he bellowed like a branded longhorn about half the gambling
license fees going into the school fund.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Bellowed like a branded longhorn.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
Mister Craig, you're even starting to talk something like a Westerner.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
He thinks like an American wichitoe. And that's the kind
of man Arizona needs for its delegate. Remember, I still
have to be elected. You will be.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
You know, I have a personal reason for wanting to
be in Washington. My little girl goes to school in Baltimore.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Oh you got a sprout. I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
So it's another picture and you watch it.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Well here it is.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Why she ain't no sprout. She's a growed up young lady,
and Purty is a.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
Spotted puppy riding through snowstorm a little red wagon.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Thanks for the time, Well, I've got to be getting along, Luke.
Thanks for your confidence. Well, I wish you wouldn't hurry, Ed,
I have an appointment over at Gallagher Saloon. I'm buying
a gold mine.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
What that's right?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
An old prospector named Van Ling wants to sell his claim.
Says it's more fun discovering gold than working to get
it out of the ground.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Now wait a minute, Ed, I've never heard of any
worthwhile gold oer in these parts. Oh the silver shifling
strike proved that. But I'd never gamble on gold.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
I'd never gamble on no more silver.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
I figure old Schaeffan found only loading the mule.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Mountains Man Link took me out to his claim, and
I watched him take the samples. They I say, it
high enough to be worth taking a chance.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
To your money, Ed, But you're no more a mining
expert than I am.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
I know, I know. I just figure I can put
some men to work, and if the veins as rich
as it seems to be, their families will be comfortable
for life.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
You mean you're gonna hire on a profit sharing basis.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
I've got as much money as I need, and I
hope what the men get they'll sort of invest back
in Arizona.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Eh, what cash money weeds you pin?
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Haha? Exactly what Luke pays you, Whishita. And if you
quit him to work for me, you might not get
your ranch job back if the claim peters out.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
I wasn't asking for no different job. I know when
I'm well off, when I am setting on a horse.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Just don't get so wrapped up in helping people that
you forget the campaign ed because you can really help
them When your Arizona's delegate to Congress.
Speaker 7 (06:10):
Four thousand, eight hundred, four thousand, nine hundred five than
at your correct amount, mister Craig, and you got your
shelf a gold mine.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Bye, mister Vanley. The paper seem to be an order,
and I'll take care of filing the transfer.
Speaker 8 (06:25):
That's a lot of cash money to be carrying around
Tombstone van mm hmm. Here to leave it in my
safe overnight.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
One I might just do.
Speaker 8 (06:34):
Let mister Gallagher, were aty you see in my office. Well, Craig,
this will be an interesting experience.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
For you, I think so. I think it'll be a
profitable one.
Speaker 8 (06:44):
If it is, maybe you'll quit harping on statehood for
the territory government take it all away in taxes.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Statehood's a few years away, mister Gallagher.
Speaker 8 (06:53):
No matter which one of us goes to Washington, your
ideas are too fancy for us out here, Craig. Then
I have a Westerner to represent the West. We'll see
what the people decide that we will. And no hard
feelings either way. Mister vand Ling. If you change your
mind about joining the mine crew, just look me up
mu pretty for certain.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
I will well keep in touch anyway. Remember you'll get
a share of the profits.
Speaker 8 (07:16):
Come along to my office, old timer, all right, if
you a receipt electioneer, if you want a Craig, even
if this is my place, I'll let.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
The electioneery go until I rolled up to the miner.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Hold it, hold it, I'll go ahead.
Speaker 8 (07:31):
It's worth laughing at.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
His share the profits.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
We put it over on him, real smart like mister Gattiger.
Speaker 8 (07:40):
It wasn't hard.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Give me the money, man.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I get three headed.
Speaker 8 (07:44):
I would remember, that's right, one hundred now and two hundred.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
When I know you're a humor I did.
Speaker 7 (07:50):
I kind of like to stay around and watch your fun.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Your mouth's too big, old timer.
Speaker 8 (07:55):
I wouldn't want Craig to find out he actually bought
that claim from.
Speaker 9 (07:58):
Me, by the word, and you fixed the papers yourself.
Speaker 8 (08:03):
You're going to Yuma. By the time you get there,
it'll be time to start spreading the word that mister
Edward Craig, candidate for Delegate from the territory of Arizona,
is pouring a fortune in It was solid gold mine.
I bet you win that election, mister galligett safe at
bet you'll ever make. When the people find out how
(08:23):
little Craig knows about the West, they'll laugh him right
out of Arizona.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
The claim didn't look like much to me. There were
traces of gold in the sandstone where old van Ling
had roughed out the start of a mine shaft, but
they were shallow deposits, and they disappeared when Craig's men
got the tunneling a real shaft. The crew worked with
picks and shovels and drew their pay regularly. Then at
(08:57):
last the tracks and mine carts and heavy ore crushing
equipment arrived in Benson by rail, and the whole mind
force went down to mule freight it back to Tombstone.
I persuaded ed to make a trip to the mine
with Wichita on me while the men weren't around.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
We'll make a lot more progress when we get the
machinery in, Luke.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Well, you'll dig deeper faster, that's sure.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
He ain't no machinery. Bin ingranted it'll put gold in
the ground where they ain't.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
I don't want to put it in. I want to
get it out.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Do you mind my asking how much this equipment set
in your backhead?
Speaker 4 (09:32):
About ten thousand? Another couple thousand to ship it.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Then with your payroll, you're close to twenty thousand in
the hole.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
I think it's a sound investment. Now, Uh you mind
me asking you something, Luke?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Nope, you're gonna ask me to keep my nose out
of your personal business.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
Out at all.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
I'm just curious about that old muzzle loading rifle. Now.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I've been studying up on gold, this antique guns for
a little experiment I want to make. Whoa, yeah, yeah,
Mary's pride mine.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
You gotta shine on a tunnel anyway, I named it
after my daughter. You'll be proud as punch when I
telegraph it. We've hit high grade ore.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Oh, I've got some high grade gold nuggets here. Ed,
I'm gonna put a charge of powder in this old blunderbuss,
tamp the wadding, use a nugget for a bullet, and
fire into the rock near the shaft opening. Now we'll
repeat the experiment.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Now, what kind of nonsense is this, Louke?
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Are you better short of hope? It is nonsense, mister Craig.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Here goes another one. Now let's take a look at
the sandstone. Well how about it? Ed, look like places
where van link chipped off the samples.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Oh, yes, that's just the way the gold flicks would
we're distributed. Look, I bought a salted mine, didn't I.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I'm afraid you did it. You fire soft gold into
soft rock, and it looks for all the world like
the real thing.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
Zapatche for one of the scummiest tricks a Westerner can
play on an Easterner, mister Craig.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
I.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
When this gets out, I'm going to shape up as
a fine candidate to represent the people of the West.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
That may have been what someone was thinking when you
fell for the trick, and I doubt if Old van
Ling is much interested in politics.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Animal and Luke Slaughter of Tombstone returns with the warm weather.
Here young folks are champing at the bit to get
outdoors and enjoy themselves. Many of them, far too many,
in fact, may be thinking of quitting school after this
(12:13):
semester and going to work. If they're not graduating. This
June asked them to give the matter a second thought.
The grass may look very green and inviting from the
classroom window, but if they don't complete high school or college,
they may be looking just as longingly out the window
twenty years from now, bored and disgusted with a dull
or menial, poor paying job. The good jobs, the interesting jobs,
(12:35):
the secured jobs, and the high salary jobs are reserved
for those with cottage degrees. There are some pretty good
jobs for high school graduates too, but remember this, the
less education you have, the less money you're likely to
earn during your lifetime. You may hear of a lot
of people being out of work today. But there's still
a crying need for engineers, scientists, doctors, nurses and teachers
(12:57):
and jobs like that require a sound completed education. Urge
the young people, you know, to qualify for them. They
can if they stay in school and graduate. And now
Act two of William and Robson's production of Luke Slutter
(13:20):
of Tombstone.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Ed Craig had bought a salted gold mine. There wasn't
any doubt about it. And if we'd got out ridicule
was going to ruin his chance of beating Paul Gallagher
in the election for territorial delegate to the United States Congress.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
As I see it, gentlemen, there's only one thing I
can do.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Close up the mine.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Huh know what? You ton keep digging. My men have
their families in Tombstone. Some of them have brought them
a long way to settle here. If people think I'm
a fool, they'll just have to think it. But I'm
not going to shut down until I find something else
for the men to do.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Can you afford it it?
Speaker 4 (14:08):
I can for a while anyway. And just because the
top stratum was salted, it's no proof there isn't pay dirt. Further, in, mister.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
Craig, I wouldn't trade a spavined broomtail range Mustang for
this whole dang rock pile, and neither would anybody else
in the right chances much a.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
T are Ed. We both admire you, and we both
wish you all the luck in the world.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Oh well, of course we do.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
I never said I didn't wish your luck, but you sure.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Going to need it.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Election day was getting close, and Ed Craig's chances looked
worse and worse out here. The weak and the foolish
don't survive long, and in the eyes of the hard
working settlers, Ed looked more than a little foolish. Money
doesn't come easy to our people. They don't like to
see a man throw it away, especially when they don't
(15:07):
understand his motives. And Paul Gallagher slandered those motives, even
to the men who were benefiting from them. Out here.
Speaker 8 (15:16):
Mister Rollinson, I'll be whisky, I guess. Oh, put your
money away, my friend. Huh, this is on the house.
Speaker 9 (15:24):
It's very nice here.
Speaker 8 (15:25):
Mister Gallagher's still working for Craig at the Mary's Pride.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
That's right, Maybe not for long, eh, Oh.
Speaker 9 (15:33):
No, we sure ain't fining pay dirt, but Craig keeps
handing over our wages.
Speaker 8 (15:38):
Yes, those wages aren't quite as much as you hope
to make on the deal.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Well, no, we make a strike. We're all going to
share in the profits that Craig is a fast talker.
Speaker 8 (15:49):
And I bet you wouldn't have moved your family down
from Globe if you'd known.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
It was for just a few weeks.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Poor pay. Pardon me for interrupting. It's been a few months,
and that's mighty good pay.
Speaker 8 (16:00):
Well, slaughter our private conversations between my customers and me,
any concerned yours.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
When they're derogatory to one of the finest men in
the territory.
Speaker 9 (16:09):
Yes, mister slaughter. Mister Craig's nice enough, but we were
led to believe we were gonna make a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
I bet you're making more now than you've ever made
in your life. How long is it gonna last? Slaughter?
Speaker 8 (16:21):
When the election's over, Craig will shut up that mine
like it was a pest house. But makes you think so,
because Craig's not a complete fool. He got stuck with
a salted mine. He figured he'd hide it under a
big gesture, a gesture that might even get him elected.
Then when he got to Washington, he'd make it up.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
And Graft got any more to say.
Speaker 8 (16:40):
Gallagher only that Arizona folks aren't stupid enough to be
taken in by an Eastern swindler.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
I dare you to say that again any place except
in your own miserable gambling house. You heard me this time.
Speaker 8 (16:53):
No need to chew my cabbage twice.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
You better come with me, Relinson, Well long, and mister
Gallagher is setting up drinks your own way. But remember
who's setting up the food for your kids, Luke.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
I don't see what good we're doing, mister Craig while
coming out to the mind when he ain't even here.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
We may be doing a lot of good.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
But the elections day after tomorrow and the way people
are talking, he ain't got a chinaman's chance to win.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Craig knows that too, Wichita. He wouldn't be nearly as
disappointed over losing, so he would be to find as
miners have let him down.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Yeah, pears ain't doing much mining today. Looks more like
they're having theirselves as sociable.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Gallagher's talking to him bad.
Speaker 8 (17:50):
I'd be doing you men a favorite if I came
out and told you what Craig is trying to pull.
Ah As for myself, I don't believe he got the
assays samples from this claim at all. I don't believe
he paid old handling any five thousand dollars. I think
the whole thing was a planned swindle to get him
to Washington and to make you pay taxes to a
(18:10):
state and a federal government.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
I told you not to call Craig a swindler again. Gallagher, Wait, wait,
wait for what. I'll take that gun, gallaghery, And now
I'll take you now. Boys. As you know, mister Craig
is campaigning in Prescott. He'll be back for the election,
(18:35):
and it doesn't look like he can win. Craig isn't
a mining expert. He fell for assaulted claim. I told
him so weeks ago, and I guess all Arizona knows
it now. But he kept all of you working because
he felt a responsibility to you and your families, and
for some strange reason, because he still has faith in
(18:55):
this mind. Maybe that faith boils down to faith in
the West and the men I want to live here. Now,
what do you say we forget about the election. And
when Ed Craig comes home, we'll show him the longest
mind tunnel he ever saw. Whether there's gold in it
or not, I'm gonna dig Wichitar is gonna dig.
Speaker 10 (19:15):
How about the rest of you keep funk pars coming back,
then we'll keep him filled out.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
There was a pretty enticing speech you made, Luke. When
I started swinging this pick.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
I almost enjoyed it. But now the rock's getting all hard.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Keep swinging anyway.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
But it short? Oh no, no soft right here?
Speaker 3 (19:57):
No?
Speaker 5 (20:00):
You see soft and kind of ladish colored?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Would you tell this? Get that light inclusive?
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Eh?
Speaker 1 (20:10):
This is silver to silver and it looks like as
clean a vein as was ever found in the west.
(20:30):
Let's stop in at Gallaghers, Manager.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
Gallagher, we're having a little celebration.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
I thought you might want to set up a few rounds.
Speaker 8 (20:40):
You'll keep out of here, slaughter, unless you want to
warn for battery slapped on you.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Yeah, battery is right. You look like you would run
over my stage.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
You'll get out too.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
I'll let you get out.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
I don't need your votes. Every vote counts, Gallagher. Sure
you don't want to set the boys up.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
I told you to get out.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
There's one thing I'd like to settle first. You've been
telling these men that van Ling didn't get five thousand
dollars from Craig for his mind claim. What makes you
think that?
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Well?
Speaker 1 (21:08):
How should I know what Craig paid him? The transaction
took place in your establishment.
Speaker 8 (21:12):
I don't remember everything that goes on here.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
A short memory is a pretty handy thing. I guess
you wouldn't remember transferring the claim to van Ling a
month before he sold it to Craig.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
No, I don't.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Do you know enough about territorial government to realize that
all mining claim records are filed at Prescott? And are
you keeping close enough track of the election to realize
that Ed Craig has been campaigning up there?
Speaker 8 (21:38):
Look, slaughter, If I gave away a worthless claim and
Craig was foolish enough to buy it, it still doesn't
involve me.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
Ah course you don't. Van Ling's the one who gets
you a hunk of the prophet.
Speaker 8 (21:49):
Did Craig give that poor old Coot the same story
he gave these men?
Speaker 1 (21:52):
You ought to know the only thing you don't know
is that we struck silver at the Mary's Pride. Today's
right Gallagher's Rich Alda's Head, Shafferm's Tombstone strike maybe rich.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Now wait a minute, that was my car.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
I only transferred it to Van Lynn, so he consulted
and sellid Well, boys, we better get to the telegraph office.
There's plenty of time before election to let the whole
territory know that Ed Craig has made a million dollars strike.
And I'll telegraph Craig not to bother looking up any
claim records. Gallagher's told us everything we need to know.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Fellow citizens of Arizona.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
There are times when words just can't seem to.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Please.
Speaker 11 (22:47):
Try to tell them for me, Luke, I think they'd
rather tell you, boys, how do we feel about our
new delegate to the Congress of the United States?
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Luke Slaughter of Tombstone, starring Sam Buffington, was written by
fran Van Hardisfeld and directed by William N. Robeson editorial
supervision by Tom Henley. Supporting mister Buffington were Jodasentis, Jack Moyles,
Barney Phillips, and Julius Matthews. Next week, at this time
(23:37):
we returned.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
With Slaughter's the name Luke Slutter. When we meet up again,
you can call me that. Luke Slutter.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
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