Submitted by
Loyd Bishop

PONCA SHOOTING
John Hooper Shoots Tony Boone in a Saloon.
THE AFFAIR A MYSTERY
With Possibly a Scandal Behind It.

Ponca City, Feb 29 – At about one o’clock Saturday afternoon, in the Turf Exchange saloon, a young man named Tony Boone was shot through the breast and is now lying in a precarious condition. The bullet entered his right breast near the nipple and lodged as near as can be ascertained under the left shoulder blade. It was at first reported that the shooting was accidental but later one John Hooper was arrested as the guilty party and taken to Newkirk for preliminary examination.
Since recovering from the effects of the anesthetics administered by the surgeons who dressed his wound, Boone has been in his right mind and able to talk, but he either don’t know who shot him, as he says, or else refuses to tell. The wound is considered dangerous though not necessarily fatal.
Boone is a young man of about 25 years of age, unmarried, and for the past two years has been employed on Wm. Craven’s ranch in the Oto Country. Hooper, we are told, is an older man, married and lives at Red Rock. There are reports of former difficulties between Hooper and Boone, but nothing definite could be learned either of that or of the actual shooting.

ANOTHER MURDER
At Ponca City, Making Two for That Town in One Week.

Another murder took place at Ponca City, Sunday afternoon, which following as it does the murder of Toney Boone a day or two before, would indicate that Ponca City is striving for a reputation.
The killing, Sunday afternoon, took place at the home of a Negro woman known as “Aunt Liza,” in the south-eastern portion of the city, at which place a number of Negroes were assembled, the victim being Mrs. Jim Owens, a young Negro woman. A number of the participants are under arrest.
There are many conflicting reports, but the facts in the case seem to be about as follows: In the course of a quarrel in which a number of persons engaged, one Jim Atcheson, a young man, went into an adjoining room and procured a double-barreled shot gun. Returning he discharged the gun at short range, the charge entering the left thigh in front and tearing a great hole through the limb from front to back. The woman was taken to the office of Dr. Wallace, where the wound was dressed, but she died at about nine o’clock in the evening.