The Helena independent., 1894-09-15
STILL SELLING SHARES.
And With Each 0ne Goes a Town
Lat in tho Famous Grove
City.
Tho Alleged Colorsd Millionaire oi
Montana Finds Some Now
Vioiima
Two Of Them Arrive NJ Boulder, Only Go
Fiad That Hia fTomises Arc
Worthless

Repeated tevotAes after occasional sue.
orsses. DO not seem TO have dAmponed tho
ardos Of Charles Porter Grove tho alleged
mulu.milliouairo eolorsd mining kng OF
Montana, The atory Of hia victims who
came oat from Chicago 10 work In Grove
CtJ. Jeiretson county, al remuns attye
wages and large tr0apectiye dividends how
theY were nearly ata vsd and floKea; anl
how the har1ships snI exposure they Gu
couutcred resulted ia the death Of ono OF
ibemi all this has been told The fact thai
he had been In Colorado, working a new
| field ami finding fresh victims has also
been published, But that after the expos
mo of bis operations in the east he should
I fad people gullible enough In Colorado TO
venture into his new III Dorado is supris-
ing. That hs has done so is evidenced by
the following from the latsst issuo of the
BouldOr Age;
Two OF Charles Porter Groves victims
arrived In Boulder Monday evening from
| Pueblo. Col. expecting to find work at
Grove City. Grove and his co-Adiato had
| told the eolored people OF Pueblo that
/ Grove City wss town Of 800 people, all
colored, located six miles from Boulder
from which place stages ran yerI frs-
I quently, that Grove had at the city eight
cen or twents mines IN operation, the ore
! Fielding from 300 to $3.50 ton; that thers
was work Tor ala who would 60 10 the place,
miners getting 81 30 per day and com mon
! laborefs above ground receiving SD a
month; nj tbs city was large hotel for the
accommodation OF all who came. In
the meantime Grove was selling stock
IN bis mines At So share or at any
price he could get u sales we're slow, prom
ising each purchaser town LOT in Grove
| City. He made other extrAVagant claims
aud promises. and was assisted by a oolored
man named John Austin, who was known
to some Of the oolorsd people OF Pueblo
and had thoir confidence. Austin went TO
Denver with Grove. and in about two weeks
rsturnsd TO Pueblo and said that be had
been to GrCvS City and found everything as
Grove had stated. Then he renewed the
sale of stock.
Morgan Green and Mack Randall. two
Young colotsd men OF Pueblo who were out
OF work, were delighted at the prospect OF
finding steady employment at fair wages.
and selling their few belongings they man
aged 20 get money enough TO buy railroad
tickets to Boulder. They arrived here
AuhhNf WlbLoub cohe monoyt
only W find themselves the victims of
heartless swindler whose promises and tales
were utterly oAseless. Natu ally they we're
much disappointed aud disheartsned at the
way their hopes bad turned out bnt they
Immediately began rustling for work. and
10 is possible they will find a fulflment OF
the desires with which they started from
colorado, though not in the way they an
tieipaied. They seem to be honest and in.
dustrious young fellows. intelligent in con-
vsrsation Ani manners neat In dress and
generally worthy. Any person who can
give one or both of them employ ment would
! do ptaissvorthy act and St the same time
get full value for wages paid.
Words Of course arc useless TO uss
against such scoundrel as Grove but
there seems 10 be no other method Of run.
ishment. The bsst that can DO done Ia TO
endesyor by word OF mouth, by letter. and
By publication 20 prevent his swindling
others IL 10 to the interest of every Mon
thnihn 10 assist in this. for every swindls
perpeirated upon the outside world rssults
in injury to oil the people OF the state,
whatever NAV be the color or character of
the sWIndlefn