The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-07
A LEADING PART
Carolina Druggists at the
Convention.
DR.. Atkinson Proud OF the Old Mother.
Talk of Possible Compromise of
Old Nick Williams
Case.
Especial to News and Observer


said here this morning that the post
ponement of the hearing by Judge
Boyd i'm the Nick Williams Distilling
Company case until October Gath.
probably meant that the case would
not come to trial at that time, but
would be settled by compromise. If
any ofer of compromise has been
made by the principal in the case
agreeing to pay the government any
considerable sum, which is sometimes
accepted by the Internal Revenue Blu
reau and the Department of Justice,
nothing authoritative could be learned
about it here today. The offer would
be made to the Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue in the first instance.
and If deemed satisfactory by him. ar
ranEements for diScOntinuance of ac-
ton would have to be made by him
with the Attorney General.
A prominent official of the Depart
ment of Justice said today that AS
sistant Attorney General Robb had
not heard anything from District At
torney Holton since he returned to
Greensboro some weeks ago, and that
nothing was known bv his office ex-
cept what was seen in the newspapers.
DR.. Thomas Fl. Atkinson, who has
returned from Boston, where he went
S. delegate to the convention of the
National Association of Retail Drug
gists. although one of the most promi-
nent and enterprising druggists in
Washington, yet recalls with pride
that he is a son Of North Carolina.
and says that while he went to the
convention as a delegate from the
District of Columbia he acted with the
North Carolina delegation as often as
with his own.
DR.. Atkinson. who is a native of
Selma and a nephew of the wholesale
druggist, l.. Richardson, of Green's
boro and has relatives in nearly every
section of the State, was first a stud
ant of pharmacy at the University Of
North Carolina in 1892, and received
his license from the State board the
same year. II was not un/l' the next
year that the University established
a chair of pharmacy DR.. Atkinson
says that the North Carolina delega-
ton, composed of Messrs. CT. *.
Grantham, of Dunn; J. II. Bunting
and Druggist Harpes OF Selma, and
Rayser, of Asheville, took & prominent
part in the convention at Boston, es-
pecially in obtaining the erection of a
scientific branch, one of whose du-
es, is to examine into the adultera-
ton of drugs. He aid that the con-
vention would certainly be favorable
to the enactment into r1w of the bill!
| last year Dy congressman
Webb, of North Carolina to compel
the labelling Of all medicine contain
ing cocaine, morphine or similar
drugs with the quantity of such drugs
contained therein. He believes that
nothing but injustice can come to both
public and patent medicine owners
from any attempt to put into opera
ton the recent ruling of Commits
sioner Yerkes subiecting all patent
medicine whose main ingredient is al
cOhol to an internal revenue tax
George w. Stepp has been appoint
ed postmaster at Black Mountain and
Furuifold P. Koonce at Trenton, Jones
county.
Rural free delivery route No. will
be esta blished from Henderson. Vance
county on December 1st
Carolinians at the Head.
Secretary Root OF the State Depart
ment has had plans prepared for re-
Organization OF his department, and
one of the offices booked for reorgan-
Ization is the bureau of indexes and
archives. Inc work of this bureau
includes the business of preparing,
IndeXing and registering all CORES,
pondence to and from the department
with preservation OF the government
archives. Mr. Pendleton King of
North Carolina is present chief OF this
bureau, having held that office since
1894, prior to which date he served
as secretary of the United states le-
cation at Constantinople and as
charged affairs at different times. If
a change is decided upon bySecretary
Root, Mr.. King viii probably be APP
pointed to some important consular
position.
At a meeting of the Confederate
Veterans Association last night a
committee was appointed to see
whether some plan cannot be devised
by which the general movement
may care for the graves of the Con-
federates who died while prisoners of
war and were buried in and about
the military prisons in the North. The
following committee was appointed:
Hon. Hilary A Herbert, Judge Silas
Hare, Major Holmes Conrad, Major
Robert Hunter, Major ]. Mcdowell
Darlington. Capt. John NJ Hickory
and the president of the association
John T. Cal!aghan.
Important Speech at Raleigh.
1t is understood that the speech
which the President will make at
Raleigh. his principal stopping point
in North Carolina, will be an exceed
ingly important one, the intention of
the President being to discuss on that
occasion his policy respecting the
Chinese boycott proposition. The
President is heartily in favor of more
liberal treatment of high-class Chi
nese seeking admittance into the
United States. He does not believe
in letting down the bars for Chinese
coolies. but he does believe that the
most liberal treatment should be ac-
corded Chinese merchants. students
and travellers who want to come into
the United States. The American
Asiatic Association and the great tex
tile interests of the South belonging
to that association are deeply in
terested in this problem. They are in
accord with the views of the Presi-
dent, who realizes the effect our
treatment of enlightened Chinese may
have upon the American cotton goods
trade in China. AS the South is as
deeply interested in this matter as
any other section of the country. it
is understood to be the Presidents
intention to discuss his policy in his
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