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Show INDIAN SHOOTS AGENT Resented Enforcement of Rules and Fires Home of Superintendent Reno, Nev Resenting medical rules enforced on the Walker River Indian Reservation, Jim Bennett, full blood Piute, on Sunday fired the home o! Superintedent H. V. Hailman at Schruz and when Hailman emerged fhot him with a rifle. The Indian escaped. es-caped. It is said Bennett resented an order placing his granddaughter on a diet following an attack 'of ptomaine poisoning. pois-oning. Bennett desired the attendance of the tribal "medicine man," but was overruled by Hailman, who is also reservation res-ervation doctor. Bennett secured j gallon of oil, a rifle and a horse and rode to the superintendent's house, sprinkling the oil at the rear of the house and firing it. When Hailman appeared the Indian shot him. |