The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-02-05
TALLAHASSEE
NEWS NOTES
Items of Interest Gathered
at the Capital of
Florida.
Special to The Journal.

special 10 ne JOURNAL.
Tallahassee. Feb. 4.-Hon. Park N.
Trammeu, Floridas new attorney
general, bids fair to be an official
who is going to make his colleagues
'sit up and take notice" His prompt
and decisive action in forcing upon
the attention of his fellow trustees OF
the Internal Improvement fund the
necessity for Tetrenchment in the eX-
penditure of money paid out for the
services Of a general counsel for the
trustees, has won for him unstinteo
commentator.
Mr.. Trammell was reared in Polk
county and Lakeland has been his
place OF residence during the most OF
his young manhood. He began the
practice of law at the age of twenty
one, and Immediately after began
serving his state in various positions
of trust and honor Was twice mayor
of Lakeland, being elected to that Of
fee when only twenty three years OF
age. At twenty-six he was sent to
the house of Representatives, anu,
two years later, 20 the senate, OF
which body he was elected president
Now, at the age of thiTty-two, he rs
attorney general Of the state OF
Florida.
Mr. Trammell is a man of fine phy-
sique and dignified, courteous bearing,
and seems to possess the equable
good judgment and
clearness of perception that harmon
ize well with these exterior qualitl-
cations in gaining for him position
and recognition
AS a lawyer he is alert and accu-
rate. wel1-grounded in his profession
and thoroughly posted in all affairs
pertaining to his new and responsible
position.
DR.. Randolph Named.
DIR. James II. Randolph, who was
Tuesday unanimously elected chief
at Florida's Hospital for the
Insane, is a Tallahasseean who counts
his friends by the score. A son or
Mr. T. Hayward Randolph, one OF
TaIIahassee's finest and most beloved
now the head of one of her
Oldest families, DR.. Randolph
the ties which bound
him to his native city by marrying
Miss Evelyn Winthrop, descendant of
another old Tallahassee family.
DR.. Randolph is graduate OF
Johns Hopkins University and has
practieed medicine for the past four
or five years as assistant physician to
DR.. Goodbred, at Chattahoochee.
New Engineer Arrives.
Mr.. p. F. Jenkins, the newly ap-
pointed drainage engineer and super
intendent for the Everglades. was in
the city yesterday He had hoped 10
arrive here in time for the meeting OF
the Trustees of the Internal Improve
ment Fund, held in the morning, but
his train MISE connection and SO
DELAYED him Mr.. jenkins, in COM
Dany with Hon. 4. G. Groom, comp
Iroller, left this morning for Miami,
where the operations of the dredSe
Miami will soon be begun Upon
reaching there the new superintend-
ent will immediately take charge of
all matters pertaining to his office.
To Dredge Miami River.
The Trustees of the Internal I'M |
Fund. after a conference /
with several of the leading citizens or 4
Miami. yesterday decided to begin ]
he operation of the dredge Miami, in 1
he Miami river, provided the citi- /
zens and property owners of that 4
OF their committee. shall /
obtain a release from all the owners /
IF property along the banks of the |
river and the canal lying west CT the 1
east half of the northwest quarter OF I
Sec. "a, Tp. So S. r. Al E, from All !
damage arising from change OF the /
7olume of water Occasioned by this |
work Immediately upon compliance |
With this and other conditions exaeted /
1y the trustees, the Miami viii be |
ordered towed around to the Miami /
river.
Attorneys in Taliahassee.
The following named attorneys are !
n Tallahassee arguing cases before |
he justices of the supreme court; /