ARTHUR DRAPEAU
Arizona Republican Newspaper
November 20, 1897

When Arthur Drapeau, an old resident of Arizona moved out last 
fall this territory lost its most picturesque liar. There are 
others, but none whatever their strivings and ambitions who 
had been able to reduce the art of prevarication so nearly to 
an exact science as Mr. Drapeau had succeeded in doing.

For many years Mr. Drapeau conducted a general merchandise 
business at Castle Creek. He sold it last September to James 
Milton for $8000 and after arranging all his other affairs 
departed for Montreal, his former home about the last of 
September.

On October 5 the Montreal Daily news contained an interesting 
story of the return of "our former townsman" Mr. Arthur Drapeau, 
from the Klondyke. Mr. Drapeau within a very short time had 
succeeded in cleaning up 300,000 to say nothing of a large 
fortune in nuggets ranging in value from $10 to $50 which 
he had brought back for distribution for his friends. Mr. 
Drawpeau was living at the principal hotel in the city in 
a style almost approaching oriental magnificence. He had 
favored the Daily news with a long interview in which his 
views of the Klondike and its future were fully set forth 
and all of which was regarded by the News as of supreme 
value and interest to intending prospectors. As soon as Mr. 
drapeau had rested from his long journey he intended to go 
out to Boston where two brothers were living whom he was 
going to make rich and happy.

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As a matter of fact Mr. drapeau was nowhere near the Klondyke other than Vancouver and the golden nuggets which he so generously distributed were the accumulation of years in his Castle Creed Store.  nobody in Arizona cares what kind of roseate lie one of its residents may tell when he goes abroad but one cannot help feeling that common patriotism ought to induce him to make this territory the beneficiary of it.  Mr. Drapeau is a Canadian by birth and was never naturalized and never had any love for the territory.