the MR job history logs are not deleted right way after you restart hadoop, the new job will be counted from *_0001 and only new jobs which are started after hadoop restart will be displayed on resource manager web portal though. In fact, there are 2 log related settings from yarn default:
# this is where you can find the MR job history logs
yarn.nodemanager.log-dirs = ${yarn.log.dir}/userlogs
# this is how long the history logs will be retained
yarn.nodemanager.log.retain-seconds = 10800
and the default ${yarn.log.dir} is defined in $HADOOP_HONE/etc/hadoop/yarn-env.sh.
YARN_LOG_DIR="$HADOOP_YARN_HOME/logs"
BTW, similar settings could also be found in mapred-env.sh if you are use Hadoop 1.X