Show I 4 Junk Dealer 1 Or Railroad Which Chief W Which ich 4 I By Br S A i I Copyright AURORA IH Ill i Aug Aug If 4 4 If It any any- anyone one any I one can tell Israel Joseph ot of this city whether at the moment he ho Isa Is Isa a 11 Junk deale dealer or I a a railroad president president president dent he will earn his In sincere cere thanks As u head ot of the tho Israel Joseph Iron I company Mr Joseph bought for the Aurora DeKalb electric line when the railways railway's receiver told Circuit Judge C F Irwin that I although the road cost coit eo t he gould could not operate Its five pas pu- passenger pas passenger cars care and six freight cars at n I profit Joseph bid in tin prop erty which Included acres of tine fine farm land at court auction and he was under the Impression that the court approved his h plan to scrap the tho railway It looked as if liabilities had had been I listed by the lines line's receiver until farmers near nt-ar Kanesville n a flag station persuaded the state com com- commerce commerce merc merce fon that thaI the thirty thirty- two thirty two mie mme road was a necessity necessity sity sit The commission told Joseph Joeph to forget torget his Junking program and to take a Junket Into the realms ot of railroad operation The Tho commis commis- commission Mon sion had no legal right to enforce Its ukase and four tour mile miles of the theline theline line IIno vre Ie v we scrapped bot before or the farmers presidents led by two bank prest- prest dents appeared before Judge Irwin and obtained a decree restraining Joseph from scrapping the line and Instructing him to continue its operation op- op operation op operation as a public utility Everybody told Joseph he lIe go a bargain When he bou bought t the road l but ut Joseph Is not so sure that he dId |