
Big companies and the dairy lobby are buying up the Jura farms at a loss en masse. Ben sees his cows die one by one every day, a misfortune that also affects his colleagues. He thinks it's sabotage and decides to investigate to restore old-fashioned justice. Ben will track down the person responsible for a mass poisoning by going back up the chain from a network of saboteurs to the sum of the dairy lobby.

A young author goes to an art gallery to find paintings.

The citizens and near-by ranchers of a western town are being besieged by a gang of rustlers and robbers, and a plea is made to the governor to send a troop of rangers. Shortly, thereafter a dude-costumed cowboy shows up but he only asks a lot of dumb questions and does a lot of stick-whittling as he wanders the streets and hangs out in the saloon with the regular barflies. The citizens mark him down as being 'tetched in the head.' Also, shortly after the whittler arrives, a mysterious black-masked rider begins to make life a bit tougher on them than it had been.

A mountain boy takes it upon himself to protect wild animals from hunters and trappers.