Newspaper Unknown - August 9, 1899
A terrible fever is raging at New Salem which is proving very serious. The doctors can't give any relief. They say there is nothing in medical books that throws any light on the disease - several have been carried away by it. It is called "Oklahoma Fever." Six wagons went last week. This week Emmett Griffith,Louis Griffith, McGinley Laird, Wm. Miller and Chauncey Harshman and others took the train. Six other families are going in the fall.