The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-11
JAMES sNEAD AGAIN HoNoRED.
Author of Kansas 'sHerd Law Absent
Since Nominated County Attorney.

Tribune, Kan, Aug. 11.-Out in the
short grass country. Out in western
Kansas. Right where the grass roots
hear things. At the central part of the
state. At the west edge of the state,
and in the highest point in the state
there is a county called Greeley, and a
town named Horace and another named
Tribune. All named in honor of that
Newspaper veteran, who said go west
young man and grow up with the coun-
try This county ever since it was or
ganized has done everything but han
die history with gloves.
Seventy-fve years ago in Kentucky
there was born a babe, who matured
to manhood and is known as James H.
Snead From his boyhood to this day
ing fellow. From Kentucky he went
west to grow up with the country. At
ter first being admitted to practice law,
his first experience was in western
Kansas, which is known now as Saline
county, and in the early seventies he
was elected representative for that
county three different times to the Kan
sas legislature without opposition, and
he was recognized as being keen, clever,
shrewd and clean both as a citizen and
lawyer. At that time Saline county
was new and the cowboy and ranchman
ran over the families living on the
claims in Kansas, there were no
fences and laws to prevent stock from
running at large, Out MI. OnedO Will
his trainir- in - framed up a bill
which was enacted by the legislature,
of which he was a member. that be-
came a law and is now the present herd
law.
In 1883 Mr.. Snead again started to
blaze the way across western Kansas,
and true to his western rowing dispo-
sition then located at McCracken, in
Rush county. There he practiced law
for a few years and proved up on
school land quarter, a one hundred
and sixty acre tract, and after that
portion of the state became more Gull
tivated and inha bited, he still contin-
ued to press forward to the very west
ern edge of Kansas, and there he took
a government homestead about eigh-
teen miles southwest of Horace, in
Greeley county, Kansas. Retiring from
the practice of law, and being an old
man in years, with no money and his
wife having been dead for many years,
and being too old to work by the day,
he depended entirely upon friends and
acquaintance, and he rambles across
the state of Kansas, looked upon as
tramp by all but a few who realize
his worth to the great state of Kan
sas in the enactment of the herd law
of Kansas.
In June of this year it was suggested
by some of his friends that a helping
hand should assist and guide the
father of the herd law of Kansas into
a better place and position in life, so
ten Republican names were signed to
a petition and quietly filed with the
county clerk of Greeley county and
Mr.. Snead's name was placed on the
ticket as a candidate for the nomina-
ton of county attorney of Greeley
county. The present county attorney.
D. r. Beckstrom, having served the
county for nearly ten years without
opposition, was greatly surprised upon
learning when the votes were counted
on the evening of August that James
H. Snead was almost unanimously
nominated on the Republican ticket
of Greeley county for the coming
county attorney. No other candidate