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Show PACIFIC COAST NEWS. CALIFORNIA. On tho 2d inst., one of the San Fernando companies struck a natural flow of thirty-five barrels of oil per day. It is not a new woll, however, but they have lately sunk it deeper. It ii now only 200 feet down. Work is unusually vigorous, and a number of new welis are being sunk. A new still, with a capacity of 200 barrels per day, is on tho ground and will be put up at once. There are 1,1,95 convicts at San Quentin, of whom six are female. Henry Htintelman, a tanner, cut his throat on Wednesday with a knife and then with a rnzor, severing his windpipe and jugular vein, and dying almost instantly. The deceased de-ceased bad been speculating in stocks, j and the loes of the earnings of years drove him to the commiaaion of tbe fatal act. On Saturday laat a young lady named Mias Nellie McPherson performed per-formed an act of rare heroism in saving the life of a child that waB in danger of being crushed by a passing vehicle on Kearny street. Her foot was severefy crushed and she ii now confined to her dwelling, with the probability of being crippled for life. It is proposed to prosent Mrs, McPherson Mc-Pherson with an appropriate memento.. me-mento.. COLORADO. Oil has been atruck in digging a well in Denver. The Illinois press association will visit Colorado in Juno, by invitation of the Atchison, Topoka & Santa and Denver and Rio Urande roads. A new joint etock company has been organized lately to put the Denver woolen mills in operation on a more extensive scale than ever before. be-fore. Irrigating the dry lands in Colorada from wells by windmill power has been recently found praticable by a farmer, near Evans. With one dmall mill an acre of vegetables was watered, and the thirat of a herd ol eighty head of cattle, horses, and heep was quenched. MOST ANA. The total number ol Bchool children between the ages of 4 and 21 in tbe territory is 4,271, of whom 2,734 attended school last vear. There are Od school districts in" the territory, o( which 64 male and 4'3 female teachers wero employed. There are $7 school houses. The average school tax is $8.5j, and the aggregate amount of taxesreceived $34 215 27 being an average of $0.03 for each child enrolled. The value of the school houses is $30,030, aad special taxes for building school bouses amounting to $10,017.20 were levied luring the year. The average wag,s f teachers was 6;!.50 per mouth and ibe average coat of tuition per month 3.57. |