Arizona republican., 1921-05-16
Tis-Win Aurora Boreali.

The aurora DOreallS or Saturuay night was not the first phenomenon of the kind seen in this latitude and it was certainly not the first that people thought they saw, if a story told by a Republican reporter a few years ago is true
 1t related to famous .is-win drunk of the Papago Indians Now, before getting to the aurora borealis feature of the story it should be eX- plained that a tis-win drunk is a part of a religious or rain ceremony. The Indians do not gather in large numbers for the sole purpose of pol luting themselves: that is only incl dental to the performance of a rite. These ceremonies do not take place at stated times but only in the stress of prolonged drouth.
 The drouth described in the story was a serious one and an unusual quantity of tis-win, a drink of re- markable recoil, such as puts White mule in the class with soda pop, has been stored for the occasion.
 The rite was so generally observed by the members of the tribe that the reporter stated the reservation was so lit up that citizens of Casa Grande the next morning asked one another if they had seen the Northern Lights the night before.
 This story was pretty widely copied, and was brought, it is said, through the St. Louis Globe Demo- crat to some member of that peculiar organization known as the Indian Rights association. The Indian Rights association is an unofficial body with, sometimes, super official powers. The insistence. not to say the fanaticism. of the association frequently gets things done for the Indians that ought not be done. It is responsible for many of the governmental mis- takes in dealing with the nation S | wards
 The association feels that it has not merely the material but the spiritual welfare of the Indians in it's keeping. 1 It was shocked beyond expression when it learned of this extraordinary performance. It would have been bad | enough for the Indians to go off on | a drunk in the purposeless way that white folks sometimes do, but that might have been overlooked, for even professed Christians sometimes get drunk. But this drunk was notice to the association that the Papagoes had | reverted to heathenism.
 | The association took the matter uI with Cato Sells, Indian commissioner with the result that the manufacture l of tis-win was forbidden, and the or | der was so closely followed that it is said none has been made on the res | ervation until recently. In the mean time the Indians held no communica- tion with the rain gods and they at | tributed to that the drouth of tht i last two years.
 But a citizen of Casa Grande re- | ported the other dav that the droutf had been broken there recently, ons | of the few breaks that have occurred l anywhere in the southwest. He stated that the Indians had previously per formed another rain ceremony, omit ting none of the trimmings, and tn, 1 gods appeared to have relented.
 No Kidd at All
 Even the most experienced railroad ticket seller gets confused at times so it is natural that a new man hit! 1 many bumps before he gets on ths I smooth road of office familiarity. Press Bancroft, local official of tn, Southern Pacific. tells this one;
 "A new man recently was placed I as assistant ticket agent in a rathe large office on the Southern Pacifi' lines. He was rather sensitive abou his new position with it's attendan
 responsibilities. Flip travelling mel
 especially irritated him. What h
 considered to be the limit wa
 reached on the second day in offic
 when man who appeared to be travelling salesman of the fresh typ shot at him:
 Say, what's the chance to get , ticket to Kidd?"
 I've don't sell tickets for that pur
 pose" the new agent coolly retortee Then he got a setback. The travel , ing man informed him he wanted
 ticket for Kidd Montana