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Show POUR MEN BEGIN A PRISON TERM Officials of Lumber Company, Convicted of Swindling, Enter Pennsylvania Penitentiary Peni-tentiary One More to Go. Philadelphia, April 10 Four of the five ofticials of the $6,000,000 Inter national Lumber & Development company com-pany who were convicted in the Unit ed States court on charges of BWin diiim. today began their sentence in the penitentiary in this city. A thirty days respite, granted them b President Presi-dent Wilson on the eve of their going go-ing to' prison, expired last midnight The men sent to jail are John R, .Markley of Iowa, sentenced to one year and three months and to pa B tio.OOO fine: ' B Miller, Chicago i one vear and three months and $10,-000 $10,-000 fine; A. ti Stewart Ia , oiif year I and one day and $10oo fine; C M I McMahou. two years and i I fine W H. Armstrong, Jr., thi rifth ' man who was given two v ears imprisonment im-prisonment and fined $10,000, was too . Ill to appear in court. I The men were convicted on ! charges of perpetrating fraud in de I veloping . Mexican ranc h containing limber |