They then converted it into an upscale billiard parlor. And in 1944 the bowling allies and a billiard parlor burned. Tinker owned a billiard parlor during the Depression. He owned the Dixon Hotel in Kansas City, where his billiard parlor gained national recognition. On March 18, 1882, his brother Morgan Earp was assassinated in a billiard parlor. Ward Maxey, Hoover's brother-in-law, took over Hoover's billiard parlor and later became a sheep rancher.