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Show Oscae P. McMains, who for years has been preaohing resistance to the government by settlers on tho Maxwell grant in Kew Mexico, has come to grief. He has been found guilty by the United States circuit court recently held in Pueblo, Colorado, of that identical iden-tical offense. McMains at one time was a Methodist minister and quite distinguished for his eloquenoe. He, however, fell to dabbling in real estate and relinquishing his holy calling, he set himself up in opposition to the United States authorities in disposing of the so-called Maxwell grant. During the administration of President Cleveland Cleve-land he threatened the president and his secretary of the interior, Lamar, with impeachment and was looked upon as a cantancerous crank. The courts evidently decided he was safer in their keeping than at large. |