Desc: Battling Bates: Directed by Webster Cullison. With Edmund Cobb, Florence Gilbert, Ashton Dearholt. A Secret Service agent on the trail of a gang of outlaws, enters a cattle community as a stranger, and rescues a young rancher from an ambush. A jealous woman who was rejected by the rancher, who was romancing another girl, had sent her henchmen out to kill him, however, the culprits are members of the same gang the agent was assigned to bring to justice.