Throw grandpa from the train

The Internet is great. Where else can you stumble upon 105-year-old news stories about 
your relatives?

Here’s a short one about my grandfather from the June 17, 1907 edition of the Montgomery City (Mo.) Tribune. Grandpa, 35 at the time, regularly took the train from his home in High Hill to the county seat, Montgomery City, where he had business interests. The 10-mile trip passed through the town of New Florence. A few days before, the railroad had raised its fares from 2 cents to 3 cents a mile.

New Florence, June 16

G.L. Dryden of High Hill was ejected from a Wabash passenger train here tonight for a refusal to pay his fare of 3 cents a mile. Mr. Dryden tendered his fare at a 2-cent-per-mile rate, which was refused by Conductor Cunningham.

Wonder if the conductor ordered the train to stop or merely slowed it down? 

And for those of you who have speculated as to where my cantakerousness comes from,
now you know. 

It's genetic.