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Show PNEUMONIA IS HILLING WALKER RIVER INDIANS; 50 DEAD; J4IN ONE DAY )f' (Special to The TeV.'Vm I ("ARSON riTY, N'ev.. .Ian. 1 7. - According t. reports that are received from the Walker River reservation, pneumnni.t has broken out in the Indian camps in an alarming manner. The malady seems to be an epidemic, as nearly fifty Indians hae dieii recently from it. A mining man who recently arrived here from the reservation declares that on Saturday fourteen of the aborigines died, an 1 for several .lavs before that large numbers of the red men were buried The innate superstition of the Indians has made the rare of the pa tients difiieult. The agent at the reservation i? having considerable difficulty diffi-culty in having the Indians treated |