  The recently proposed $N^*(890)$ $1/2^-$ baryon is studied in a flavor
$SU(3)$ scheme with $K$ matrix unitarization, by fitting to low energy cross
section and phase shift data. It is found that $N^*(890)$ co-exists with low
lying poles in other channels, which have been extensively discussed in the
literature, though they belong to different octets, in the $SU(3)$ limit. Hence
the existence of $N^*(890)$ is further verified.
