The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-28
A BLACK NAPOLEON OF FINANCE
Charles Porter Groves Further Opera
tions in the Far West.

From the Chicago Times.
repeated reverses. after occasional sue
cesses, do not seem to have dampened the
ardor of Charles Porter Grove. the al
legged multi-millionaire colored mining
king of Montana. The story of his vic
tins, who came out from Chicago 70 v,orly
in Grove City, Jefferson county, at re-
munerative wages and large prospective
dlVldends; how they were nearly starved
ana frozen, and how the hardships and
exposure they encountered resulted in Tho
ueath OF one of them-all this has been
tols' The fact that he had been in Cello
Idoo WORKING new field and finding
Iresh victims has also been pubIisbed
nut that' after the exposure of his onera
tlons IN the east. he should find peoDIe
sulIlDIe enough in Colorado to venture
INTO MS new FL Dorado is st1rnrisiycr
Ihat he has done so is evidenced b,, tt1c
Boulder Age: Vi 'he
TWO Of Charles Porter Groves victims
arrived IN Boulder Monday evening from
6ueolo Cslo, expecting to find work at
Grove City. Grove and his coodiutors ha5
told the colored people of PTebIo IT,
Grove city was town of 800 psonI. ali
celored' located six miles from Boulder
from which place stages ran very, fire.
quentiy; that Grove had at the citv oioh
Teen or twenty mines. in operation. the orc
yleIuiIIs from 800 to $50 a ton; that there
was work Tor all who would 90 IA +be
place miners getting $3.50 Der DIV ana
common labsrers above ground s50 n
month"; AT the city was a large hotel fo,.
the accommodation of all who came T.
the meantime GrSve was selling stoclr In
ms mines at 50 a share, or at any price he
CsuLu set II safes were low, promising
each purchaser town lot in Grove CIT
he made other extravaeant ,clsiros aS.;
promises and was assisted by a coIored
man named John Austin, who was lr,,o,,,,.
10 some OF the colored people of Pueblo
ana had their confidence Austin went n
Denver with Grove, and in about two
weeks returned to Pueblo and said no hos
been to Grove City and found everytbi,,e,
as Grove had stated. Then he renewed
the sale of stock ~ w"
Morgan Green and Mack Randall +y,o
young colored men of Pueblo. who vero
out OF work. were delighted at the nroe-
pect of finding steady empIovnnent ~
talr wages, and, selling their few beIono-
inss' they managed to get money enorrb
10 buy railroad tickets to Boulder Thay
arrived here Monday evening without a
cent of money, only to find Themselves
the victims of a heartless swindler. whose
promises and tales were utterly baseIess
NaIuIaiy they were much disappointed
and disheartened at the Way their bonas
had turned out but they Immediately
began rustling for work, and 1t is nos.
sible they will find a fulhllment of tbo
desires with which they started from
Colorado, though not in the way thew an
ticlpated. They seem TO be honest and
Industrious young fellows Intelligent a.
conversation and manners, 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 to use
against such scoundreI as Grove hut
there seems no other method Of nm
ishment. The best that can be done is
to endeavor by word or mouth, bv letter
and by publication to prevent his swind-
ling others. 1t is to the interest Of every
Montanian to assist in this, for every
swindle perpretrated upon the outside
world results in injury to all the peonIe
of the state. whatever may the color or
character Of the swindler"