Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW : 1888 - 1954), Tuesday 10 January 1911, page 3
A LONG CATTLE TRIP.
FROM WEST AUSTRALIA TO
QUEENSLAND.
DROVERS STRICKEN WITH FEVER.
Brisbane, Tuesday.
A drover named Albert Williams yesterday arrived on the Millee boundary, near Charleville (Queensland), with 2606 head of mixed cattle from the Lissdale and Argyle Downs sta- tions (West Australia), travelling dir-ect 2400 miles
Tho trip was particularly rough.
Many of the drovers were stricken with fever, and one of them (Thomas
Stafford) died.