The Washington times., 1894-11-07
GOLD MINE GROVE AGAIN.
The Alleged Black Napoleon OF Finance
Has Continued His Swindiing Career
Since He eft Nashiuctnn

Since He Left Washington.
Repeated reverses. after occasional sue
cesses, do not seem to have dampened the
ardor Of Charles Porter Grove the alleged
ultI-millionaire colored mining king of
Montana, says the Helena Independent The
story Of his victims who CAME out from Chi
cago to work in Grove City, Jefferson county,
at remunerative wages and large prospective
dividends; how they were nearly starved and
frozen, and how the hardships and exposure
they encountered resulted in the death OF one
of,them; all this has been told. The fact that he
had been in Colorado, working a new field
and finding fresh Victims has also been pub
lished. But that after the exposure OF his
operationsin the East he should find people
gulllble enough in Colorado to venture into
his new Ell Dorado Is surprising. That he has
done so is evidenced by the following from
the Boulder Age:
"Two of Charles Porter Groves victims ar
rived in Boulder Monday evening from Pueblo,
COL, expecting TO find work at Grove City.
Grove and his coadjuters had told the colored
people Of Pueblo that Grove City was town
OF 800 people, all colored, located six miles
from Boulder, from which place stages ran
very frequently; that Grove had at the city
eighteen or twenty mines in operation, the ore
yielding from 500 to $50 ton; that there
was work for all who would go to the place.
miners getting $3.50 per day, and common
laborers above ground receiving $50 month.
At the city was a large hotelfor tie accommo-
lation of all who came. In the meantime
Grove was selling stock in his mines at 20
share. or at any price he could get II sales
were low, promising each purchaser town
lot in Grove City. He made other extraVa-
CANT claims and promises and was assisted
by colored man named John Austin. who
was known TO some of the colored people OF
Pueblo and had their confidence. Austin
went to Denver with Grove and in about two
weeks returned TO Pueblo and said that he
had been to Grove City and found every
thing as Grove mad stated. Then he renewed
the sale OF stock
Morgan Green and Mack Randall, two
young colored men of Pueblo who were out
OF work, were delighted ut the prospect
of finding steady employment at fair wages,
and, selling their few belongings, they man
aged TO get money enough to buy railroad
tickets to Boulder. They arrived here Mon
day evening without cent OF money, only to
find themselves the victims Of q heartless
sWindier, whose promises and tales we're
utterly baseless. Naturally they were much
disappointed and disheartened at the way
their hopes had turned out, but they imme-
diately began rustling for work and il is pos
sible they will find fuhlment OF the de-
sires with which they started from Colorado,
though not in the way ythey anticipated. They
seem to be honest and industrious young
fellows, intelligent in conversation and man
ners, neat in dress, and generally worthy.
ANY person who can give one or both OF them
employment would do a praiseworthy act and
at the same time get full value for wages.
Words of course are useless 10 use against
such a scoundrel as Grove, but there seems TO
be no other method OF punishment. The best
that can be done is to endeavor by word of
mouth, by letter and by publication to pre-
vent his swindling others. 1t is to the interest
of every Montanian to assist in this for every
swindle perpetrated upon the outside world
results in injury to all the people of the
State. whatever may be the color or character
of the swindler"