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Show BANKER DANAGA PAYS FOR WRECKING AUTO People can brag of paying $n an hour for music lessons, or even $25, but they can't come up to the boast that C. C. Danaga of Callente, Nov., can make for what ho paid for a lesson In automobile driving In this city Sunday night. Other than the rental of the car It cost Mr. Dannga, who Is said to bo a wealthy banker bank-er of Callente, $175 In cash for payment of repairs on the machine which he was driving, when he steered it Into a tree In Liberty park. The automobile was from the Tom Bot-terlll Bot-terlll automobile garage, and Danaga Informed In-formed the chauffeur, Edward Smith, from the garage, that ho was contemplating contempla-ting purchasing a machine, and was allowed al-lowed to manage the steering "wheel. Everything went fine tnd Mr. Danaga was delighted with the advancement he was making In learning to drive an automobile, automo-bile, until ho lost control of the high-power high-power machine, and before tho chauffeur coyld prevent It bumped Into a tree. "Whether or not Mr. Danaga thought tho car would push the tree to ono side and proceed as If nothing had happened is a question which was soon learned after tho bump occurred. The front part of tho machlno was badly wrecked, tho engine put out of commission and the large glass wind shield broken to atoms. The people In the machine, several of whom were women, were severely shaken up. Mr. La Tometee. still another member of the party, had to havo a physician to attend hJs Injuries. Me is now at the Holy Cross hospital, and it is said he has several broken ribs. |