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Show PORTLAND EATS MUSTANG'S FLESH i By Special News 'Service. " 1 PORTLAND, Ore, June I. Jackass, mule, donkey, burro and horse meat may now be sold In Portland meat market. The city council haa adopted an ordinance providing for the inspection inspec-tion of these meats and for the regulation regu-lation of their sals. The meat must be plainly labeled with letters at least one Inch lilgh and must be Inspected by the regular meat inspectors of the city. As adopted, the ordinance says Dobbin Dob-bin and Billy and Maud, before being sold to the housewife, must undergo thorough inspection and be labeled "horse," "mule," "goat" or "Jackass," as the case may be. The first horse meat market has been opened and the first shipment, of twenty-two wild range mustangs, rounded up by Indians in eastern Oregon, Ore-gon, has been received, with more to follow if the demand is sufficient. The butcher says he is sble to cut meat prices in two and his quotations for horse flesh range from 4 cents a pound for soup cuts to 12 is cents for T-bone steaks. |